Loreen Olson

Loreen Olson
Academic background
EducationSt. Cloud State University (BA)
University of California, Davis (MA)
University of Nebraska–Lincoln (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineCommunications
Sub-disciplineInterpersonal communication
Family communication
"Dark side" of communication
Institutions

Loreen Olson is an American scholar of family communication, with an emphasis on gender, communication, and violence. She is an assistant professor for the Communication Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on communication theory, gender communication, relational communication, family communication, qualitative research methods, and interpersonal communication theory. Olson and co-authors Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. Wilson-Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds published a book entitled The Dark Side of Family Communication. Loreen Olson is also the current editor of the Journal of Family Communication.