Alexa Dare PhD

About

Alexa Dare (Ph.D., 2008, University of Denver) joined the Communication Studies department in 2013, after teaching for several years in adjunct and visiting positions. Before moving to Portland, Alexa taught at the University of Montana, Saginaw State University, San Francisco State University, California State East Bay, and Gonzaga University.

I research and teach about the sometimes disparate things that interest me, including memes, activism and social change, transnational collaboration, visual representations of child migration, the implications of disembodied online education, the way that pregnant workers negotiate work spaces, nonhuman animal agency, meaningful work, and gendered leadership. I work and teach at the intersection(s) of Cultural Studies, Organizational Communication, and Environmental Communication. I love building collaborative research projects with students and colleagues. Two of my recent collaborations include an article in Environmental Communication with Dr. Vail Fletcher and Gender, Communication and the Leadership Gap, a book I co-edited with Dr. Carolyn Cunningham and Dr. Heather Crandall. I am the faculty advisor for Lambda Pi Eta, the Communication Honors Society. I like to spend time outside with family and friends, hiking, biking and playing in the woods. I also like eating donuts and making pizza.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Denver
• Master of Arts, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Alberta