lindsey a. sherrill 

Lindsey A. Sherrill (Phd, The University of Alabama; BS, MBA, University of Montevallo) is an Assistant Professor of Business Communication at the University of North Alabama. Before academia, Lindsey spent ten years in the wholesale nursery business in Alabama and Georgia and three years covering sports and local events for the Atmore Advance, a small town paper in south Alabama. Lindsey has always been fascinated with true crime and has translated that fandom to research, including her dissertation, which won the  2020 University of Alabama Communication & Information Sciences Outstanding Dissertation award. Her research in true crime media as well as journalism and political communication has been presented at multiple national and international conferences, and has been published in notable outlets such Journalism Practice, Communication Theory, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcast & Electronic Media, and Mass Communication and Society. Lindsey is the author of a book on true crime, podcasting, and criminal justice reform entitled Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy: Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem (Lexington Books). She splits her time between Florence, AL and New Orleans, LA, along with her road trip buddy, Freddie Mercury, a 13-year-old Portuguese Pointer.