Nicole Mayberry

Nicole K. Mayberry is a cultural geographer and political theorist. She is an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University’s University Design Institute. 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. 

She is the co-editor of The Marcusean Mind (Routledge) and Creolizing Marcuse (Rowman and Littlefield), and co-hosts the Doc to Dock podcast, which explores place and the perspective of experience.

Her forthcoming books include Artifacts of Abundance: How Design Links Science, Technology, and Organizations to Social Progress (with Michael M. Crow and Derrick Anderson), Johns Hopkins University Press, and I, Slave: Robot Stories and Shrouded Cartographies of Anti-Blackness, University of Georgia Press.

Born and raised in Arizona, Nicole proudly wears the triple Arizona State Sun Devil badge.  She lives and works in Washington, D.C.