Susan Henry
Susan Henry, a professor of
journalism at California State University, Northridge, received her Ph.D. in 1976
from Syracuse University, where she had the good fortune to be guided by Cathy
Covert, to whom she remains indebted today. A journalism historian, her research
primarily has focused on the study of previously "invisible" women who were unacknowledged
collaborators with well-known men. These women range from the wives and mothers
(and in one case the sister) of male colonial printers, who first worked with
their male relatives and later went on to publish newspapers themselves, to 20th-century
women journalists whose uncredited partnerships with their husbands were crucial
to these men's highly successful media careers. Her research has been published
in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism History, American Journalism
and Public Relations Research Journal, among other publications. From 1985 to
1990 she was the editor of Journalism History.
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