Jennifer Henrichsen
Assistant Professor
Washington State University
Dr. Jennifer R. Henrichsen is an Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. She is Senior Personnel with the VICEROY Northwest Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER), an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project (ISP), and an Affiliated Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC). In 2025, she was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, the first in Washington State University's history. A former Fulbright Research Scholar, Henrichsen holds MA degrees from the University of Geneva and the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. As a journalism studies scholar within the field of communication, Henrichsen examines (1) the ongoing erosion of democratic society amidst rising polarization, authoritarianism, and constitutional rot by assessing how malicious actors wield emerging technologies alongside analog methods to denigrate and disrupt journalistic work, safety, and well-being, and (2) how to strengthen trust in knowledge systems and institutions by enhancing journalists’ and news organizations’ abilities to meet the challenges, threats, and attacks facing them.
Contact:
jennifer.henrichsen@wsu.edu
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