Susan Murray (historian)

Susan Murray
Susan Murray
Occupation	Historian
Children	2
Awards	Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award (2019); Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); ;
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison; The New School for Social Research; University of Texas at Austin; ;
Thesis	"Hitch your antenna to the stars!": early television and the renegotiation of broadcast stardom (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Janet Staiger
Academic work
Discipline	Television studies
Institutions	Brooklyn College; New York University; ;

Susan Dorrit Murray is an American historian who specializes in television studies. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars (2005) and Bright Signals (2018) – winning the 2019 Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award for the latter – as well as co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004). She is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.