Steven and Barbara Schoonover Professor of Health Communication Senior Editor, Health Communication Lasher 211 740 593 4830 harter@ohiou.edu

Scholarly Interests: My scholarly agenda focuses on discourses of health and healing and organizing processes, feminist and narrative theory and practice. My research has encompassed a range of issues including disability-related concerns, pediatric cancer care, early childhood mental health, organizing of health care resources for underserved populations, poverty and homelessness, and the aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of familial and communal life. The various strands of my program of research are connected by three primary concerns: (1) how symbolic, material, and corporeal conditions allow for resiliency among individuals facing difficult life circumstances; (2) how alternative discourse communities, boundary-spanning organizations, and individuals in bureaucratic contexts organize for survival and social change; and, (3) how people experience lived differences, contradictions, ironies, and paradoxes. 

Education: Ph.D. (Communication Studies), University of Nebraska; M.A. (Communication Studies), Missouri State University; B.S. (Sociology, Organizational Communication), Missouri State University.

Publications: Over 50 articles and book chapters in outlets including the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Health Communication, and Management Communication Quarterly. Co-editor of a book published by Lawrence Erlbaum entitled Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice, co-editor of a book published by Hampton Press entitled Communicating for Social Impact, and co-editor of a book under contract with Kendall Hunt entitled Case Studies in Community-Based Participatory Research. 

Editorial Work: Senior Editor, Health Communication; Editorial Board Member of Communication Monographs, the Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Management Communication Quarterly.

Select Honors:

• Outstanding Book Award by the Health Communication Interest Group of NCA (2009)
• Distinguished Graduate Faculty Member, Ohio University (2009-2010; Commencement Speaker, 2010)
• Outstanding Graduate Teacher, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University (2009)
• Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University (2008, 2005);
  
• Honor's College Distinguished Mentor Award, Ohio University (2007);
  
• Affirming Humanity Award, Ohio University (2007);
  
• Distinguished Edited Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of NCA (2006); 
  
• CSCA Federation Prize (2002);
  
• Sister Pat Kowalski Leadership Award, State of Minnesota (2002);
  
• College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Nebraska (1998);
  
• Educator of the Year Award, Truman State University (1995).

Other notes of relevance about Lynn: I live in Athens with my husband, Scott, daughter, Emma Grace, basset hound, Ned, and hamster, Clara Belle. I love cooking (and eating), reading, and watching football. Go Huskers!