Nicholas Croce is Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. His research examines how governments and public programs use technologies. Croce is leading the Townships & Technologies Initiative, which pairs students from SPIA’s Governing Technology seminar with municipalities and real-world challenges.
Most recently, Croce was postdoctoral associate at New York University and research analyst at Mathematica. He has expertise in human services and emergency management with roles at organizations including Hagerty Consulting/New York City Emergency Management, American Red Cross, Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance, New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, and Government Accountability Office (GAO).
He is Research Affiliate, Governance & Digital Experience Lab (GovDX, University at Albany/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Professional Affiliate, Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP, University of North Carolina), and Member, New York Academy of Medicine (AI Section).
Courses Taught
PIA 2496 - Governing Technology
PIA 2512 - Poverty & Inequality
PIA 2117 - Program Evaluation
- Ph.D. Social Science, Syracuse University
- M.A. Sociology, Syracuse University
- M.P.P. Social Policy, Brandeis University
- B.A. Religious Studies, Nazareth University
Education & Training
Croce, Nicholas, Md Abu Talha, and Kayla Schwoerer. 2026. “Towards Guiding Principles for AI Chatbots and Inclusive Governance.” In Handbook on Inclusive Governance, edited by Saba Siddiki and Graham Ambrose, 192–210. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Croce, Nicholas, and Saba Siddiki. 2025. “What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders. Research Brief 10. Center for Policy Design and Governance, Syracuse University. https://surface.syr.edu/cpdg/10/.
Croce, Nicholas. 2025. “Chatbot Democracy.” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 8 (2): 53–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvaf005.
Croce, Nicholas. 2025. “Hospitals of Industry: New York's Progressive Era Labor Colonies.” PhD diss., Syracuse University. https://surface.syr.edu/etd/2163/.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Histories of technology and social policy
- Inequalities
