Susan Tucker

Susan Tucker is an American archivist. She was the Curator of Books and Records for the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library at Newcomb College of Tulane University for over 30 years. She retired in 2015. She is a longtime member of the Society of American Archivists and is active in the Women's Collection Roundtable. She is now an archival consultant specializing in genealogy and family records.

Early life and education Tucker was born in Mobile, Alabama, and moved to New Orleans to attend Newcomb College, from which she graduated in 1972. The group also worked on other exhibitions and bibliographies.

Publications She has written several articles as well as reviews of articles and texts in journals such as the American Archivist. She has also edited and co-edited many books and her book, Telling Memories Among Southern Women, helped serve as inspiration for the novel and film The Help. Allen G. Noble Book award, as the best-edited book in the field of North American material culture for The Scrapbook in American Life, 2006 Visiting Exchange Archivist to the National Library of Scotland, 2002 Fulbright Scholar to Iceland, 1999 National Historical Publications and Records Commission Archival Research Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003-2004