Research

An interdisciplinary scholar, I study the construction and communication of social identity. I primarily engage in historical archival research, which I combine with critical rhetorical analysis and elements of the digital humanities.

My dissertation, Crying Conspiracy: White Discourses on Black Rebellion in Spanish Colonial Cuba, 1832-1845, used rhetorical analysis to assess the language Spanish administrators used in their official letters, reports, and news publications to stereotype and blame enslaved and free Black Cubans.  

Listen to a "Tales from the Reuther Library" podcast episode about my most recent article! 

https://reutherlib.blubrry.net/2025/07/03/seeking-self-determination-in-detroit-housing-race-and-the-activism-of-the-west-central-organization-1964-1971/ 

See below for my other work. 

Recent Publications: 

• Lindner, A. E. (2025). “Seeking ‘self-determination’ in Detroit: Housing, race, and the activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971.” Journal of Urban History (published online). https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241288533. 

• Jankens, A., Varty, N., Lindner, A. E., Jimenez, L., Mixon, A., Braxton, C., & Begian-Lewis, K.M. (2024). “The same conversational page? Talking with students about language and diversity.” Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 7(2), 28-46. https://doi.org/10.36021/jethe.v7i2.373. 

• Lindner, A. E., Fuhlhage, M., Neal, K. S., and Phillips, K. (2024). “Reaching for reconciliation: Reader responses to seven newspapers’ apologies for histories of racist coverage.” Journalism Research/Journalistik, 7(1), 4-30. https://journalistik.online/en/paper-en/reaching-for-reconciliation/. 

• Lindner, A. E. (2023). “Reading Sense8: Visual interchangeability and queer possibility in a ‘post-racial’ world.” Visual Communication Quarterly, 30(4), 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2023.2267437.

• Lindner, A. E., Fuhlhage, M., Frazier, D. T., & Neal, K. S. (2023). “‘If ever saints wept and hell rejoiced, it must have been over the passage of that law’: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderlands newspapers, 1851-1852.” Journalism History, 49(1), 28-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2022.2161800. 

• Lindner, A. E. (2023). “Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 (Book Review), Lyneise E. Williams, New York, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019, 213 pages, $130 Hardcover, 978-1501332357.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 40(4), 272-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2237104. 

• Jankens, A., Walker, C., Jimenez, L., Krupansky, M., Lindner, A. E., Mixon, A., & Guinot Varty, N. (2023). “A dual mission: Antiracist writing instruction and instructor attitudes about student language.” Across the Disciplines, 20(1/2), 56-88. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2023.20.1-2.04. 

• Varty, N., Jankens, A., Jimenez, L., Krupansky, M., & Lindner, A. E. (2023). “Building a sustainable antiracist coalition: Developing a research team for studying diverse language and literacy practices at the university.” Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 38(1), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.9707/2168-149X.2353. 

Research Awards (selected): 

• Scholarship and Innovation Faculty Fellowship, Nazareth University: $2,500 in summer funding to write articles based on my dissertation research and begin turning my dissertation into a monograph proposal, awarded April 2025. 

• American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA): Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize honorable mention for my dissertation, Crying Conspiracy: White Discourses on Black Rebellion in Spanish Colonial Cuba, 1832-1845, awarded April 2024.

• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC): First-place student paper in the History Division. For "Race and social status: A content analysis of the colonial Cuban newspaper Gaceta de la Habana [The Havana Gazette], 1849," awarded June 2022. 

• American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA): J. William Snorgrass Award for an outstanding paper on a minorities topic. For “If ever saints wept and hell rejoiced, it must have been over the passage of that law”: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderlands newspapers, 1851-1852," awarded August 2021. 

Research Teams: 

• Wayne State Antiracist Language and Literacy Practices team (joined in 2020). We conduct university-wide studies on students' language practices, race, culture, and pedagogy.

• Wayne State Media History team (joined in 2019). We investigated the rhetoric of nineteenth-century US, Caribbean, and Latin American newspapers.