Lindsey A. Harvell-Bowman (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, M.A., Wichita State University, B.G.S., University of Kansas) is an Associate Professor in the Advocacy concentration and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Psychology. Additionally, she serves as faculty in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She is an enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe of the American Great Plains (Oklahoma). Dr. Harvell-Bowman’s research currently centers around the psychological experiences of suicidality and death anxiety, as well as mortality salience effects in advocacy messages.  

Dr. Harvell-Bowman is a member of the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology (ISSEP) Board of Directors, and has served as Treasurer on the ISSEP Executive Committee since its beginning. She also serves as a member of the Task Force for Pedagogical Advancement and the Grants & Awards Committee. She also served on the Board of Trustees with the Ernest Becker Foundation (EBF) before its closure in 2023. Dr. Harvell-Bowman’s research has been featured on several EBF webinars and her advocacy research served as a framework for the EBF’s publication, Death Anxiety & Social Change: A communications Guide for Advocates.” She has a co-edited book entitled, Denying Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory (2016), as well as a sole-authored book entitled, The Psychology of Communication Behind Flight Anxiety: Afraid to Fly (2021). She’s worked on several grant-funded interdisciplinary research times involving psychology, communication, and mental health research.   

Dr. Harvell-Bowman regularly teaches Quantitative Research Methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Existential Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and Social Psychology in the PsyD and Health PhD programs at Ferkauf.  

Dr. Harvell-Bowman is the current Chair of the Institutional Review Board and the Director of the Terror Management Laboratory (see www.terrormanagementlab.com)