Nicole Cote

Nicole Cote is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center CUNY, whose work centers on the production of public knowledge and understandings of disaster through the lens of media and information, the history of technology, art, and STS. She is currently investigating the historical and contemporary entanglements of media, technology, and cultural work that shape how “natural” disasters are understood in the public sphere–and how they might be refigured. She also works widely on applied digital media and digital humanities projects and teaches digital skills.

During the 2024-2025 academic year, Nicole will be a short-term Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science & Technology at The Huntington Library, a Millenium Dissertation Year Fellow and an Advisor for the MA in Digital Humanities Program at The Graduate Center, as well as an Affiliate with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

She was recently a Research Fellow at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology, and has been an Art Science Connect Initiative Dissertation Fellow, Digital Fellow, Data for Public Good Fellow, and Open Pedagogy Fellow at CUNY, as well as a Researcher at the New Media Lab. Nicole’s research has been generously supported by The Huntington Library, Linda Hall Library, New York City Digital Humanities Organization (NYCDH), and various offices and institutes at CUNY.

Nicole has served as an Adjunct Lecturer in the MA Program in Digital Humanities and MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization at The Graduate Center as well as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MS Program in Data Analytics and Visualization at the Pratt Institute School of Information.

Nicole holds an MS from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and an MSc by Research from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures.

Contact: ncote (at) gradcenter (dot) cuny (dot) edu