Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa
About
Dr. Cassie L. Barnhardt is an associate professor in higher education, and a faculty associate with the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education (CRUE) at the University of Iowa. Before becoming a faculty member, Dr. Barnhardt worked as a university administrator for nearly a decade, including serving as an assistant dean at Dartmouth College. She holds an AB in psychology and a BDA in dance from the University of Michigan, an MA in student affairs administration from Michigan State University, and her doctorate is from the University of Michigan in higher education - organizational behavior and management.
Current Work:
My current research explores how campus structures and administrative practices relate to and influence conventional and transgressive political processes. I am currently engaged in a study which evaluates the manner in which faculty service is mediated by one's gender and race, and the impact these processes have on democratic decision making within a university environment. Additionally, I was recently awarded a grant to build a dataset cataloguing campus protest and mobilization events using machine learning informatics techniques. This dataset will allow us to explore the relationships between campus structural characteristics and subsequent episodes of stakeholder mobilization.
Research Area Keyword(s):
higher education, campus activism, campus climate, social movements, organizational theory, civic engagement
