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- Aimee Meredith Cox is an American cultural anthropologist, former dancer, and choreographer. Her research interests include feminism, social justice, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. She also serves as Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University. Cox received her BA in anthropology in 1994 from Vassar College and her PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2006 from University of Michigan. From 2001 to 2004, Cox served as a director of a Detroit homeless shelter for young women called Alternatives for Girls, where she did her fieldwork while completing her PhD in anthropology at the University of Michigan. Working at the shelter, Cox studied the impact of race, class, gender, and sexuality on the lives of black women. As part of her work, Cox used dance, poetry, and music to reach out to young women and offer creative outlets of expression. In 2005, Cox created the BlackLight Project for the residents of the shelter who wanted to expand their creative experimentation with music and dance to communicate their personal experiences. During the BlackLight Project which received the Kellogg Foundation grant, Cox helped shelter residence to write down, communicate, and connect their personal stories. Cox touts her experience directing the shelter and the BlackLight Project as inspiration for her book, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and Choreography of Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2015) that won several awards including the 2017 book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America and a 2016 Victor TurnerBook Prize in Ethnographic Writing. After completing her fieldwork at Alternatives for Girls and obtaining her PhD, Cox began teaching at Rutgers University–Newark. In 2009, Cox, along with 15 young female leaders, brought the BlackLight project to Newark. In 2011, Cox began working at Fordham University as an assistant professor of cultural anthropology. In 2017, Cox joined Yale University as an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies. In addition to her work as an anthropologist, Cox is also a dancer and choreographer who once performed and toured with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DHT). She is also on the editorial board of both The Feminist Wire and Public: A Journal of Imagining America. Additionally, she also serves as an executive board member of the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) where she was a co-editor of Transforming Anthropology, the journal of ABA. (en)
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- Aimee Meredith Cox is an American cultural anthropologist, former dancer, and choreographer. Her research interests include feminism, social justice, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. She also serves as Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University. Cox received her BA in anthropology in 1994 from Vassar College and her PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2006 from University of Michigan. (en)
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