Judith A. Nicholson, PhD

Judith Nicholson does research in critical mobilities studies. Current projects interpret settler colonial automobilities in Canada, or how the nation was and is shaped through automobility infrastructure and ideology; the politics of automobility that drives contemporary vehicular violence; and the intertwined mobilities of postcards, tourists, exhibited people, and non-human animals in nineteenth-century human zoos in Europe.

2023 SSHRC Connection Grant, Blacademia: Black Researchers in Southwestern Ontario. PI: S. Brown, Co-investigator: M. Harris, Collaborator: J. Nicholson

2017 SSHRC Connection Grant, Mobilities Pedagogies: A Symposium on Practices, Theories and Networks. PI: J. Nicholson, Collaborators: C. Duncan, J. Hennebry

2016 SSHRC Insight Grant, Opening the Door on Digital Privacy: Practices, Politics and Pedagogies. PI: M. Lipton, Collaborators: L. Shade, K. Werbin, J. Nicholson

Nicholson, J. 2024. Critical pedagogies for mobilities studies. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 13(1-2): 13-31.

Nicholson, J. 2023. Automobilities in Walter Mosley's detective fiction on film. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 8(3): https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/09/automobilities-walter-mosley/

Nicholson, J. 2016. "Don't shoot": Black mobilities in American gunscapes. Mobilities, 11(4): 553-563.

Nicholson, J. 2008. Calling Dick Tracy! Cellphone use, perverse nostalgia and a shadow history. Canadian Journal of Communication, 33(3): 370-404.

Edited Journal Issue

Nicholson, J. & Sheller, M. 2016. Introduction: Race and the politics of mobility. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 6(1): 4-11.

CS101: Canadian Communication in Context

CS202: Nonverbal Communication

CS240: Intro to Mobility Studies

CS340: Advanced Nonverbal Communication (Human-Animal Interactions)

CS340: Lifestyle Mobilities

CS400: Postcard Mobilities

CS400: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

CS413: Photobooth

CS416: Global Automobilities

CS602: Mobilities