Nicole Mayberry

Biography

Nicole K. Mayberry is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. She identifies as a white, US-American, cis, first-generation scholar. Her academic research is primarily transdisciplinary in both her approach to methods as well as the disciplines or fields of study she relies on.

Nicole’s work often draws from Human Geography, Critical Race Studies, Black Feminist Science and Technology Studies, and Political Philosophy, but she primarily describes herself as a, “Cultural Geographer”. Nicole’s broader research portfolio is concerned with exposing white supremacy and whiteness where it goes otherwise unnoticed or questioned over space, place, and time.

Before her doctoral studies, Nicole received her master’s in political science with an emphasis on political theory and political philosophy. Her master’s work focused primarily on the philosophical foundations of robotics research emphasizing the Hegelian, Kantian, and Stoic schools of thought embedded in contemporary fields such as robot ethics and responsible innovation in technology. Her bachelor’s degree is also in political science.