Nicole Mayberry
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Nicole K. Mayberry is a cultural geographer and political theorist. Her work examines how stories, told through institutions, technologies, and everyday life, organize racial hierarchies across space and time. She focuses particularly on the spatial and discursive production of anti-Blackness in the United States and the Americas. Her portfolio of work builds interdisciplinary frameworks that make power visible and trace how race and place are shaped, resisted, and reimagined.
Born and raised in Arizona, Nicole proudly wears the triple Arizona State Sun Devil badge. She lives and works in Washington, D.C.
•The Doc to Dock Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xTOinh2Dl7H5Q4DGXnKnK
• Ph.D. Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Arizona State University, 2022.
• MA Political Science, Arizona State University, 2018.
• BS Political Science, Arizona State University, 2016.
• Cultural Geography • Black Geographies • Political Theory • Critical Theory • Politics of Place • Science, Technology, and Society
Research (Selected)
Books
- I, Robot Slave: Robot Stories and Shrouded Cartographies of Anti-Blackness. University of Georgia Press, forthcoming 2027.
- Artifacts of Abundance: How Design Links Science, Technology, and Organizations to Social Progress (with Michael M. Crow and Derrick Anderson). Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2027.
Edited Volumes
- Creolizing Marcuse (co-edited with Jina Fast and Sid Simpson). Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.
- The Marcusean Mind (co-edited with Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, and Sid Simpson). Routledge, 2024.
Journal Articles
- "Rationality Without Universality: Marcuse and Spatialized Subordination." Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in the Modern and Contemporary Age, forthcoming 2027.
- "More Pleasant Forms: Marcuse, AI, and the Spatial Production of Control." Journal of Classical Sociology, forthcoming 2027.
- "'I, Robot' and the Breadcrumbs of Anti-Blackness." Somatechnics 14, no. 3 (2024): 248–265.
Book Chapters
- "Reorienting Humanism: Erich Fromm and the Geographies of Anti-Black Constraint." In The Frommian Mind. Routledge, forthcoming 2026.
- "Ghost Lines and Liberation: Haiti, Marcuse, and the Architecture of Freedom." In Creolizing Marcuse. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.
- "One-Dimensionality and Roe v. Wade." In The Marcusean Mind. Routledge, 2024.
- "Color-Blind Racism and One-Dimensionality: Imagining Marcusean Conditions of Freedom Through the Black Radical Tradition." In The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times: Marcuse's Thought in the Neoliberal Era. Springer, 2023.
Courses
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PAF 112 | Identity Service America Democ |
| PAF 112 | Identity Service America Democ |
| SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FIS 305 | Ways of Knowing |
| FIS 305 | Ways of Knowing |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| FIS 494 | Special Topics |
| FIS 494 | Special Topics |
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| FIS 494 | Special Topics |
| FIS 494 | Special Topics |
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| POS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
Why Take College Students to Antarctica?
Royal Geographic Society • American Association of Geographers • International Herbert Marcuse Society •American Political Theory Association • Caribbean Philosophical Association • Society for Social Studies of Science • American Association for the Advancement of Science