Lindsey Harness, PhD

Communication and Technology

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Feminist pedagogy
• Online learning/distance education
• Women's leadership
• Critical rhetorical and qualitative analysis
• Emerging technologies

BIOGRAPHY

Lindsey Harness is the director of the Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls (RCWG) and an associate professor of Communication and Technology at Alverno College where she has taught since 2015. She also serves as co-director for the Women's and Gender Studies program. She teaches a number of courses including Social Media in the Learning Environment, Persuasion and Advocacy, Critical Media Studies, Emerging Technologies, Women's History and Leadership, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing, Digital Storytelling, and Writing and Editing.

Harness’s research focuses on the ways in which marginalized populations respond to social controversies with technology, particularly social media. She also researches distance learning and online education, especially technology that provides greater access to education for marginalized people. She has given numerous presentations locally and across the country on topics including effective instructional practices for online learning, the identity of academic success coaches, innovative teaching and engagement, mobile applications and dating, LGBT digital storytelling, and the symbolic representation of homeless youths’ identity. She has also published peer-reviewed articles in journals and books such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Mobile Media and Communication, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, and Society for College and University Planning.

Harness earned her Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communication and her Master of Arts in Communication, with an emphasis on Qualitative Analysis and Conflict Resolution from Missouri State University in Springfield. She earned her PhD in Communication Studies, with a concentration in Rhetorical Leadership from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. In addition to her work at Alverno, Harness serves as a researcher for the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA), an organization funded by an U.S. Department of Education FIPSE grant.

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