MEET DR. HARRIET SCHWARTZ
Dr. Harriet Schwartz is an educator and researcher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the author of Connected Teaching: Relationships, Power, and Teaching in Higher Education.
ABOUT DR. SCHWARTZ
Harriet L. Schwartz, PhD is the author of Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education (Routledge, 2019) and co-author (with Elizabeth Holloway, PhD) of Essentials of Constructivist Critical Incident Technique (APA, 2025).
Harriet is at the forefront of applying Relational Cultural Theory (RCT) to teaching and learning in higher education. Her scholarly interests include teaching as relational practice, and emotion and teaching. Harriet is the Lead Scholar for Education as Relational Practice for the International Center for Growth in Connection where she also serves on the leadership team.
On the forefront of developing a full articulation of constructivist critical incident technique, Harriet and her colleague Elizabeth Holloway have written the first book to focus on critical incident technique (a method first developed in the 1950s), Essentials of Constructivist Critical Incident Technique (APA, 2025). In addition, their book provides the first explication of a constructivist approach to this qualitative method.
Harriet serves as Professor of Relational Practice and Higher Education for Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change program. Prior to joining the faculty at Antioch, she taught in leadership, education, counseling, and student affairs programs at Carlow University. Harriet began her higher education career in student affairs and student support, first at the University of Hartford, and then Bard College and later Carnegie Mellon University.
She has published two New Directions for Teaching and Learning sourcebooks, co-editing Teaching and Emotion and editing Interpersonal Boundaries in Teaching and Learning. And she has published numerous book chapters and journal articles. Harriet is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at regional and national conferences and enjoys visiting with Connected Teaching faculty book clubs and providing faculty and staff development workshops. As a public scholar, Harriet has written about racism, sexism, and homophobia, publishing in spaces including Pittsburgh’s Public Source and Medium
HARRIET L. SCHWARTZ PHOTOGRAPHY
“I began taking photos as a kid and several cameras later, I am still at it. I took a photography class in junior high and have attended a few seminars since, but for the most part my quest to improve as a photographer is self-directed. I continue to learn by engaging with photography articles, books, and videos and exploring the strengths, style, and choices of others’ good work (specifically, the work that I find most compelling!). In the last few years, I’ve been doing a lot of macro (close-up) photography and more recently have been working with more abstraction.”
This collection focuses on orange and yellow in the natural world.
