Lindsey Harvell-Bowman
James Madison University
Lindsey A. Harvell-Bowman received her PhD in Social Influence and Political Communication from the University of Oklahoma in 2012 (M.A., Wichita State University, 2007; B.G.S., University of Kansas, 2004) where she focused on utilizing mortality salience as a persuasion tool in political campaign message design. While in graduate school, she worked on several grant-funded research teams specializing in deception research as well as grant-funded research with the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center. Additionally, she has been a political consultant for several local political campaigns in Kansas and Utah.
Currently, Dr. Harvell-Bowman is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies, and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Psychology at James Madison University. She also leads the Terror Management Lab investigating issues surrounding Terror Management Theory. Dr. Harvell-Bowman's research currently centers around suicidality and its impact on mortality salience and death anxiety as well as mortality salience effects in political communication. She is also the Chair of the JMU Institutional Review Board. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research can be found in the Journal of Health Communication, Communication Methods & Measurement, Political Communication, and the Journal of Communication & Religion to name a few. Additionally, she has a co-edited book with Routledge entitled, Denying Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory (2016), as well as a sole-authored book with Lexington entitled, We're Going Down!: Curbing Flight Anxiety in an Anxious World (2021). She is originally from Overland Park, Kansas and currently resides in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.