Nicole Mayberry
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¿1800 St NW Washington, DC 20006
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Mail code: 9308Campus: Washdc
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Nicole K. Mayberry is a cultural geographer and transdisciplinary researcher whose work examines how stories construct and spatialize racial hierarchies. Their research is unified by a commitment to exploring the relationship between power and narrative, with particular attention to racial and anti-Black formations in the United States that often go unexamined, especially the quotidian presence of whiteness. They approach stories as maps: organizing meaning, establishing boundaries, and reproducing hierarchies. Whether spatial, discursive, or symbolic, these stories are never neutral—they shape who is granted subjectivity, visibility, and legitimacy, and who is denied it. In their scholarship, Nicole asks: How did we get here? What stories made this world feel inevitable? And how can we tell different stories—ones that resist hierarchy and move us toward more just and liberatory futures?
Born and raised in Arizona, Nicole 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. 2025. Creolizing Marcuse. 1st ed. Rowman and Littlefield.
Mayberry, Nicole K. 2024. "I, Robot and the Breadcrumbs of Anti-Blackness." Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power.
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
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 |
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| 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, American Political Theory Association