Nicole K. Mayberry
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¿1800 St NW Washington, DC 20006
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Mail code: 3720Campus: Dtphx
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Nicole K. Mayberry is a transdisciplinary scholar and cultural geographer whose work explores the politics of place, empire, and race through critical theory, geography, and science and technology studies. Her research investigates how anti-Blackness manifests in the everyday spatial organization of society, institutional landscapes, and supposedly “neutral” artifacts. Using archival, rhetorical, and genealogical methods, Nicole examines how racialized knowledge systems—grounded in white supremacy—are constructed and resisted. Her work explores how quotidian forms of whiteness shape both the physical and temporal dimensions of landscapes. Nicole’s research seeks to challenge these oppressive systems, offering pathways for more equitable and liberatory futures.
Born and raised in Arizona, Nicole K. Mayberry proudly wears the triple Arizona State Sun Devil badge. She lives and works in Washington, D.C.
- Ph.D. Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology. Dissertation: Shrouded Cartographies of Subordination: How Science Fiction Stories Build Anti-Black Futures, Arizona State University, USA. (2018-2022).
- MA Political Science (Political Theory and Philosophy), Arizona State University, USA. (2016-2018).
- BS Political Science, Arizona State University, USA. (2012-2016).
- Critical Theory and Political Thought
- Geographies of Race
- Race, Colonialism, and Spatial Politics of Place
- Contemporary Geographic Thought
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Selected
Fast, Jina, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid Simpson, eds. 2024. Creolizing Marcuse. 1st ed. Rowman and Littlefield.
Santos, Eduardo Altheman C., Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid Simpson, eds. 2024. The Marcusean Mind. 1st ed. Routledge.
Crow, Michael M., Nicole K. Mayberry, Ted Mitchell, and Derrick M. Anderson. 2024. "AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator." Scientific American, April 17.
Crow, Michael M., Nicole K. Mayberry, and Derrick M. Anderson. 2023. "What a Coin From 1792 Reveals About America’s Scientific Enterprise." Issues in Science and Technology 40, no. 1: 22-24.
Mayberry, Nicole K. 2023. "Colorblind 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, 239-252. Springer International Publishing.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 112 | Identity Service America Democ |
| PAF 112 | Identity Service America Democ |
| SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| 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 |
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| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| POS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
Royal Geographic Society, American Association of Geographers, International Herbert Marcuse Society