Accelerate Faculty
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). She previously served as an associate professor of Communication and Technology at Alverno College where she taught since 2015.
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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