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Lizanne Henderson is a Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow in Crichton Campus. She teaches history, tourism and human–animal studies, and publishes on folklore, cultural history and the Scottish diaspore. Her 2016 book Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, c.1670-1740 won the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award. She has also won the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Folklore Prize.
Henderson is interested in folklore, cultural history, and the Scottish diaspora. She was visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne in 2014.
Henderson has been an editor of the journal Review of Scottish Culture. Henderson participated in a public panel on witchcraft in Dumferline in 2019.
Henderson was married to historian Professor Edward J. Cowan until his death in 2022. She and her husband formally opened the Crossmichael Heritage Centre & Living History project in 2019. Afterward Cowan’s death, Henderson spent a year editing the manuscript of his book Northern Lights, about Scottish contributions to polar exploration. The book was published by Berlin in 2023. As of 2025, she is also working on a book The Glenkens Story, based on Cowan's work.
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