Cara Dickason is a lecturer in the Center for Leadership Education’s Professional Communication Program. Her background is in media, technology, and cultural studies, as well as teaching writing across disciplines. Her research focuses on how digital surveillance technology transforms the nature of privacy, visibility, and spectatorship, particularly for women and girls. Dickason previously taught in the Communication and Media Studies Department at Goucher College, where she specialized in teaching about gender, sexuality, and race. As a graduate writing fellow at Northwestern University, she led interdisciplinary workshops and writing groups and consulted on research and writing in STEM fields. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and cinema-television from the University of Southern California, her master’s degree in English from Georgetown University, and her PhD in screen cultures with a certificate in gender and sexuality studies from Northwestern. She is a first-generation college student.
