Nicole Files-Thompson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Mass Communications Department

• Phone: 484-365-7676
• Email: nfilesthompson@lincoln.edu
• Office Address: Grim Hall Room 113

Nicole Files-Thompson is an Associate Professor of Communication and Chair of the department of mass communication at Lincoln University. She entered academia after having worked in television as a producer and writer. As a Frederick Douglass Doctoral fellow at Howard University, she earned graduate certificates in distance learning, women’s studies and Preparing Future Faculty.

Her interdisciplinary research engages the theory, practice, and epistemology of marginalized groups through interdisciplinary paradigms and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She also focuses on constituting, touring, and empowering sexual identities, via the critical questions: What constitutes sexual identities? How do spaces, (touring), negotiate sexual identities? How are sexual identities empowered/self-empowered?

As a teacher-scholar, Nicole Files-Thompson has developed and taught 24 courses across the communications discipline, delivered numerous lectures and conference presentations, helped to develop and implement mass communications curriculum, undergraduate research, study abroad, and pathways to graduate school for students of color. She was awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award in Fethiye Turkey. Her professional engagement includes holding leadership positions in the National Communications Association (NCA), and the Eastern Communications Association (ECA).

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