Nicole Cote

Nicole Cote is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers on media and the environment, science and technology studies, and data and visual culture. She is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.

Her current research examines historical and contemporary media, technology, and cultural projects that shape how environmental hazards and concepts like risk and time are perceived, engaged, and made actionable by wider publics. She explores how these efforts impact what is deemed possible and how they have been and might be refigured.

She works widely on applied digital projects and teaches courses that broadly concern digital methods, design concepts, data and visualization. Her work has involved various critical and creative projects that address media approaches and impacts in times of crisis as well as representation in and alternative methods for data and visualization. Her research often draws from history as a way to situate and complicate the present and imagined futures.

She was recently a short-term Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science & Technology at The Huntington Library. She was previously a research fellow at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology.

Before coming to UW Bothell, she was an Advisor for the MA Program in Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center CUNY, where she also taught in the MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization. She has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MS Program in Data Analytics and Visualization at the Pratt Institute School of Information.

Nicole holds a PhD from The Graduate Center CUNY, an MS from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and an MSc by Research from the University of Edinburgh.

Contact: necote [at] uw [dot] edu