Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D.

Experience

Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D., is a former writer for ThoughtCo, who authored nearly 170 articles about race, class, gender and consumer behavior. She has taught a wide range of sociology courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Pomona College, covering topics including research methods, theory, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, consumer culture, and globalization. An experienced researcher, Cole joined the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, England, in 2017. Prior to that, she worked as a funded research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society in Graz, Austria, from 2014 to 2016. Cole's writing has appeared in a number of academic journals.

Education

Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D., has a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College. 

Awards and Publications

• Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D., has had academic work published in the journal Race, Gender & Class, and the public sociology magazine Contexts, as well as in edited volumes including "Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity" and "Media Education for a Digital Generation."
• Social science writing has appeared on the websites Sociological Images, The Sociological Cinema, Work in Progress, Social Science Space, and Pacific Standard.
• Freelance writer for Truthout and CounterPunch.

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