Nicole Cote

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
M.S., New York University Tandon School of Engineering
M.Sc. by Research, University of Edinburgh
B.A., St. Michael’s College

Email: necote@uw.edu
Website: https://www.nicolecote.info/
Office: Commons Hall, UW2-337

Teaching

I often teach courses that broadly concern digital methods, design concepts, data and visualization. Through a praxis-oriented learning environment I aim to offer students a critical lens through which everyday relations and experiences are placed in dialogue with the potential impacts of the tools and concepts employed in class. I am keen for students to feel comfortable taking intellectual risks, to experiment with methods, practices, and ideas that extend beyond the familiar, question the structures that have become dominant, and to leave the course with new ways of thinking and doing.

Recent Courses

BDATA 232 Introduction to Data Visualization

Research and Scholarship

I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers on media and the environment, science and technology studies, and data and visual culture. My 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. I explore how these efforts impact what is deemed possible and how they have been and might be refigured. My 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. My research often draws from history as a way to situate and complicate the present and imagined futures.

I was recently a short-term Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science & Technology at The Huntington Library. I was previously a research fellow at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology. Before coming to UW Bothell, I was an Advisor for the MA Program in Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center CUNY, where I also taught in the MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization. I have also been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MS Program in Data Analytics and Visualization at the Pratt Institute School of Information. 

Selected Publications

With Zachery Mulhbauer, Stefano Morello, Travis M. Bartley, and Matthew K. Gold. “Archival Inversions: Rethinking Knowledge Infrastructures through the CUNY Distance Learning Archive.” Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 13, no.3 (2023): 1–22.