Anna Fox is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago who uses interview, archival, and geospatial methods to examine questions about gender, family, race, and violence in the empirical context of policing. Across several projects, Fox investigates how police violence shapes and is shaped by different structures of gender and sexuality, and how this dynamic relationship relates to racial inequality.
Their work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Humane Studies and has won numerous awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Fox’s research has been published in Social Problems and Gender & Society.
Fox received their MA in Sociology from the University of Chicago and their BA in Social Studies from Wesleyan University.