Research in progress

• Privacy booth exhibit: Be public about privacy!
• Reading human zoo postcards
• African American automobilities in Walter Mosley's (Easy Rawlins) Mysteries
• Mobilities pedagogies: In and beyond the classroom
• Gun Media: Critical Gun Studies and Communication

Scholarly Communities

• Canadian Communication Association
• Canadian Association of Cultural Studies
• Global Mobilities Network
• International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)

• 2019 Category A grant, Laurier (PI)
• 2018 Merit Increment, Laurier
• 2017 SSHRC Connection Grant (PI)
• 2017 Merit Increment, Laurier
• 2016 SSHRC Insight Grant (collaborator)
• 2016 Merit Increment, Laurier
• 2009 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize in Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University

I welcome inquires from prospective graduate students.

Supervision

• Brown, J. 2018. How Lost Characters Navigate Mobile Worlds.
• Warwick, K. 2017. Untergetaucht: Mobility Justice and (Im)mobility Freedom in Nazi Germany.
• Brown, S. 2016. Mediated Representations of Gender Variance: Jenna Talackova and Miss Universe Canada.
• Wade-West, T. 2013. Gendered Dialogues within Sneakerhead Subculture.
• Radin, K. 2012. Click, Converse, Consume: How Online Interactions Contribute to In-store Consumption Habits.
• Laramee, M. 2011. Want Me Now, Want Me Never: Want Me Forever: The Creation of Distinct Cyber Types and E-identities Through Interface and Drop-Down Menu Coding.

Reader

• Frey, A. 2018. Constructing the Refugee: University Humanitarianism and Post-Secondary Marketing.
• Daley, R. 2017. Canada's Relationship with Women Migrant Sex Workers: Producing "Vulnerable Migrant Workers" Through "Protecting Workers from Abuse and Exploitation."
• Gu, L. 2013. China's Hybrid Identity Through the "Me" Generation Wedding: Culture, Consumption, Continuity.
• Yool, J. 2009. Nonverbal Communication in Disney Pixar Films.
• MacDonald, L. 2009. "All in this together": The Status of Musicals in the Mass Culture Complex.

PhD Examination

Internal/External

• Llavaneras Blanco, Masaya. 2019. Famn Pa Chita: Mobilities, Intimate Labour and Political Subjectivities Among Haitian Women on the Move.
• Angulo-Pasel, C. 2018. Navigating Risks Across Borders: The Lived Experiences of Central American Women Migrants.

• Nicholson, J. and Daley, R. 2019. Flash mobs. In The Wiely-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.
• Nicholson, J. 2016. "Don't shoot": Black mobilities in American gunscapes. Mobilities, 11.4: 553-563.
• Nicholson J. and Sheller, M. 2016. Introduction: Race and the politics of mobility. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 6.1: 4 -11.
• Nicholson, J. 2014. Mobilities and race. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth, Eds. Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (pp. 346 – 355). New York: Routledge.
• Nicholson, J. 2013. Conceptualizing mobilities and remediating the mob. In L. Regan Shade, Ed. Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 4^th ed. (278 – 303). Scarborough, ON: Thomson Nelson.

• CS640: Mobilities on the move
• CS602: Mobilities
• CS601: Graduate research methods
• CS600: Graduate seminar in communication studies (co-taught)

Past undergraduate courses (select)

• CS414: Mimi Sheller's mobilities
• CS403: Technologies of race
• CS400: Postcard mobilities
• CS400: Mobile communication
• CS400: Communication and transportation
• CS340: Mediated mobilities
• CS202: Nonverbal communication
• CS101: Canadian communication in context
• AF101: Human-animal communication