Research... Black maternal health | visual rhetoric| hip hop & mental health | reproductive justice | Islam | critical discourse analysis

Below are links to some of my published writing and conference presentations. 

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Harper, K. (2020). The Ethos of Black motherhood in America: Only White Women get pregnant.Lexington Books:Lanaham Maryland.
 
Harper, K., Jackson, H. (2019). “Dat’ niggas crazy: How hip-hop negotiates mental health.” The Western Journal of Black Studies. 42 (3/4).113-125.
 
Harper, K. (2018). “Using learner centered pedagogy and social justice pedagogy in post-secondary technical and professional communication writing courses.” Handbook of Research on Promoting Higher-Order Skills and Global Competencies in Life and Work. IGI Global Hershey, PA. Ed. Sagini Keengwe. 337-350.

Harper. K., Gamie, S. (2018). Special issue on The Role of Social Networking Activism. Editor’s Introduction: The Role of Social Networking and Computer-Mediated Communication in Promoting Activism and Revolutionary Work. connexions • international professional communication journal, 5 (2).
 
Harper, K., (2017). “Black lives don’t matter because, Black wombs don’t matter: Exploring the reproductive rights of Black mothers.” Writing Networks for Social Justice. 52-55. http://constell8cr.com/4c4e/column_black_lives_dont_matter

Harper, K.C. (2012). Decolonizing education. Doctoral Dissertation. East Carolina University. 

Harper, K., Chen, K., & Yen, D.C. (2004). Distance learning, virtual classrooms, and teaching pedagogy in the internet environment. Technology in Society, 26 (4).585-598

Harper, K.C. (2003). The evolving role of a technical communicator in a marketing department. Masters Thesis. Miami of Ohio.


Blog Articles

Harper, K. (2018). It aint easy. November 11, 2018 

Harper, K., Hilliard, R. (2018). Book review of 40 Hadith of Aisha  by Ustadha Nurriddeen Knight. April 17, 2018
 
Harper, K., Hilliard, R. (2018). When Shari’a doesn’t cover the rent: The Hajar paradigm as the norm for Muslim women in America. 
 
Harper. K, (2018). Traversing the path of parenthood in Islam.

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Conference Presentations 

• March 2019—Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Going Viral: How Social Media is Changing the Conversation about Accountability and Mental Health in the African-American Community
  
  
• March 2018—Conference on College Composition and Communication Technical Communication in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter
  
  
• April 2017—9th Annual Technology Institute for Educators Using #BlackLivesMatter in a Learner Centered Environment
  
  
• March 2017—40th Annual National Council for Black Studies (NCBS); Oppression and Survival: Hallucinations, Madness and Cray-Cray in Hip-Hop Music
  
  
• November 2016—National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); Black Lives Matter: Exploring Race, Gender, Advocacy and Technology in Technical Communication
  
  
• October 2016—Winston Salem State Africana Islamic Studies Conference; The Creation of a National Narrative Textbooks & the African Diaspora
  
  
• April 2015—Albany State University Annual Hip Hop Conference. Invited Keynote: Mental Health and the Hip Hop Community
  
  
• February 2015-Albany State University Lyceum Series; Document Design and Textbook Bias
  
  
• March 2011—Albany State University Women’s Symposium; The Visual Rhetoric of Muslim Women in the Media
  
  
• October 2009—Albany State University Graduate Symposium; Speaker Preparing for Graduate School
  
  
• April 2009—35th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association; Teaching from the Margins: Critical Thinking Skills and Literature
  
  
• March 2009—Conference on College Composition and Communication; The Graduate Teaching Experience Multiple Responsibilities and Challenges
  
  
• February 2009—Southeastern Writing Center Association; Why Rhetoric Matters in the Writing Center
  
  
• November 2008--North Carolina Central University African Diaspora Studies Symposium; Document Design and the Textbook Design Process
  
  
• October 2008—Ohio University: Perspectives on African Decolonization; The Visual Language(s) Found in Textbooks
  
  
• April 2008—North Carolina A&T State University; Home Scholars Colloquial Functional Analysis as a Document Design Tool
  
  
• February 2007—East Carolina University: 4th Annual TALGS/Applied Linguistics Conference; The Marginalization of African Cultures in Humanities Textbooks