Additionally, he serves as an Affiliate Professor in the School of Social Transformation and affiliate faculty with the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. At ASU, he teaches courses that explore sociocultural issues in music education, socially engaged practice in the arts, and arts in urban contexts. The Gospel Choir (MUP 494/598) that he resurrected fall 2015 grew 273% in its first full academic year, and currently boasts an enrollment of more than 120 singers comprised of undergraduate and graduate students, and community members. Before coming to ASU, Dr. Thompson was on the choral music faculty at Appalachian State University and taught choral and general music for 10 years in K-12 public schools in NC and VA.