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Nickesia Gordon

Associate Professor

School of Communication
College of Liberal Arts
nsggpt@rit.edu
585-475-5765
Office Location
EAS-3043

Nickesia Gordon

Associate Professor

School of Communication
College of Liberal Arts

Education

BA, University of the West Indies (Jamaica); MA, Clark University; Ph.D., Howard University

Bio

Nickesia S. Gordon, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, RIT. Her research focuses on communication and gender, race and nationality as well as communication for social change.

Additionally, her research agenda includes examining how the Communication curriculum in higher ed can engage experiential learning practices and help foster civic/community engagement among college students.  

Dr. Gordon earned her doctoral degree in Communication and Culture from Howard University and also holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from Clark University, Massachusetts.  

nsggpt@rit.edu
585-475-5765
Areas of Expertise
Communication and gender
Communication and race
Communication and social change

Select Scholarship

Book Chapter
Gordon, Nickesia. "Making Ourselves Visible." and Communication Theory: Racially Diverse and Inclusive Perspectives. Ed. Austin, Jasmine T.; Orbe, Mark & Simms, Jeanetta. San Diego, US: Cognella Press, 2022. 127-155. Print.
Gordon, Nickesia. "Decolonizing communication rhetoric: A case study of Caribbean feminist discursive practices." Decolonizing Communication Studies. Ed. Kehbuma Langmia. Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars, 2022. 103-124. Print.
Gordon, Nickesia S. and Yuhan Huang. "The Oppositional Gaze as Spectacle: Feminist Visual Protest Movements in China." The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication. Ed. Marnel Niles Goins, Joan Faber McAlister, and Bryant Keith Alexander. New York, United States: Routledge, 2020. 585-600. Print.
Gordon, Nickesia Stacyann. "Branding the Nation: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Jamaica Tourist Board’s Commercial Campaigns." Brand Jamaica: Reimagining a National Image and Identity. Ed. Hume Johnson and Kamille Gentles-Peart. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 31-50. Print.
Journal Paper
Gordon, Nickesia S. "Discourses of Consumption: The Rhetorical Construction of the Black Female Body as Food in Hip Hop and R&B Music." Howard Journal of Communications 31. 4 (2020): 1-20. Web.

In the News

  • May 26, 2021

    side-by-side portraits of professor Nickesia Gordon, student Trinity McFadden, and professor Carol Anderson.

    Podcast: Race, Gender and Voting Rights 

    Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 49: New restrictive voting laws in states across the country present obstacles to the polls via voter ID laws, voter role purges, and poll closures. The collective impact on American citizens’ right to vote follows the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment and women’s suffrage. Nickesia Gordon, School of Communication, and Trinity McFadden '21 (criminal justice), talk with historian Carol Anderson, Emory University.

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