courtney m.cox
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae (full CV available upon request)
EDUCATION
2019 PhD, Communication, University of Southern California
2017 MA, Communication, University of Southern California
2013 MA, Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
2008 BJ, Broadcast Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
EMPLOYMENT
2025- Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2023-2025 Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2022-2023 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
2019-2022 Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020 New Junior Faculty Research Award, OVPRI, $3,000.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Sound of Victory: Music, Sports, and Society. Edited Volume. Eds. Perry B. Johnson and Courtney M. Cox, New York University Press, 2026, 130,000 words.
Double Crossover: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Global Basketball. Monograph. Courtney M. Cox, University of Illinois Press, 2025, 85,000 words
Articles
“‘She Finally Smiles…For Real’: Reducing Depression and Bolstering Resilience Through an Identity-Affirming Intervention for LGBTQ Youth,” Traci Gillig, Lynn C. Miller, and Courtney M. Cox, Journal of Homosexuality, 66(3), 2017, 368-388.
Book Chapters
“Getting Funky on the Court: Prince’s Post-Soul Sporting Aesthetic,” Courtney M. Cox, In Prince from Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. (in production)
“‘It Sounded Like a Hippie Was Singing It’: Fifty Years of Listening to José Feliciano’s 1968 National Anthem Performance,” Courtney M. Cox and Perry B. Johnson, In The Sound of Victory: Music, Sport, and Society. New York University Press, 2026.
“Wrecking Stadiums and Repping Cities: Hip Hop Remixes the Sonic Landscape of Baseball,” Courtney M. Cox, In Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America, Ten Speed Press, 2025.
“Race, Ethnicity, Sport, and Society,” Ben Carrington and Courtney M. Cox, In The Business and Culture of Sports, Macmillan Reference USA, 2019, 275-298.
Shorter Publications: Encyclopedia Entries, Reviews, Notes
“Review: Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West by Keith Ryan Cartwright,” Courtney M. Cox, New Mexico Historical Review, 2024.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Interviews
DIGITAL PROJECTS
2020 - “The Sound of Victory,” Courtney M. Cox and Perry B. Johnson [website]. Link
2020 - “Sounding Off,” Courtney M. Cox and Perry B. Johnson [podcast]. Link
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
“Take That for Data: Decoding Identity, Sport, and Technology,” [Invited Lecture], Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series. Department of Communication, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, November 12, 2025.
“Bigger Than Basketball: Close Listening in Qualitative Media Studies Research,” [Invited Speaker], Graduate Linguists of Oregon Student Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 26, 2024.
“Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” [Invited Panelist], Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, September 23, 2024.
“‘Betting on Ourselves’: Mediating the Politics and Ethics of Care in the WNBPA,” [Invited Lecture], Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, April 5, 2024.
“Learning New Limits: Labor, Media, and Politics within Athletes Unlimited Basketball,” [Keynote], In Your Face Lecture, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, February 29, 2024.
“Bigger than the Door, the Room, or the Table: Sports Industry Insights, and Academic Angles,” [Keynote], Black History Month Guest Speaker, University of Oregon, Portland, OR, February 27, 2024.
"Sports Media Industries in the Streaming Age," [Panel Participant], Society for Cinema and Media Studies Media (Media Industries/Sports Media SIG) Roundtable, Virtual, January 26, 2024.
“The Politics of Beer & Wine,” [Panel Participant], Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. October 18, 2023.
“Black History Month Keynote Speaker (with Spencer Paysinger)” [Moderator]. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR, February 28, 2022.
“Nikole Hannah-Jones: 1619 and the Legacy that Built a Nation.” [Panel Participant] Robert and Mabel Ruhl Lecture. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. February 19, 2021.
“‘Betting on Ourselves’: The Politics and Ethics of Care in the WNBA’s 2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement.” [Invited Lecture] University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA. February 12, 2021.
“A Football Game Broke Out at a Whitney Houston Concert: Performance, Politics, and Embodied Memory at Super Bowl XXV,” Co-presenter: Philana Payton), [Invited Lecture] Critical Conversations Series. Scripps College. Claremont, CA. February 11, 2021.
“Not Just Jackie: Rethinking Race and Baseball.” [Invited Lecture] University of Oregon baseball team. Eugene, OR, November 2, 2020.
“What Can Sports Tell Us About This Current Moment?” [Invited Lecture], IntroDucktion 2020, University of Oregon. Eugene, OR, August 6, 2020.
Selected Conference Presentations
“Methods through the Mayhem: Doing Critical Sports Studies in Precarious Times,” [Roundtable] American Studies Association, San Juan, PR. November 21, 2025.
“Anatomy of a Halftime Show: Behind the Scenes of the Most Watched Concert in America,” [Panel Participant; Co-Author and Presenter: Perry B. Johnson] North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Seattle WA. November 8, 2025.
“Nothing But Bet: The Gambling Sporting Simulacrum in the Post-PASPA Landscape,” [Panel Participant] North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Seattle, WA. November 8. 2025.
“Presidential Plenary: The Future of Women’s Sports,” [Invited Panelist] North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Seattle, WA. November 7, 2025.
“Live High, Train Low: Grounding the Elevated and Embodied Technologies of the Oregon Project and Breaking 2.” [Panel Participant] American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. November 15, 2024.
“Authors Meet Readers: The End of College Football,” [Author Meets Critics] American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. November 14, 2024.
“Decolonizing Data Infrastructures: Pluralizing Imaginaries and Histories of Datafication,” [Roundtable] European Association for the Study of Science and Technology/Society for Social Studies of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 18, 2024.
“One Night in the Motor City: Revisiting José Feliciano’s 1968 Pre-Game Anthem Performance,” Co-presenter: Perry B. Johnson, [Panel Participant] Society for American Music, Detroit, MI. March 24, 2024.
“Take That for Data:” A Critical Examination of Sports’ Technocultural Turn,” [Panel Participant], Panel series: Decolonizing Data Infrastructures: Pluralizing Imaginaries and Histories of Datafication, Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, HI. November 8, 2023.
“‘Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?’: Super Bowl Halftime Soundscapes in the Crescent City,” [Panel Participant] American Musicology Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 10, 2022.
“(Dis)Embodied Nation: Performing America at the NFL Super Bowl,” [Panel Participant] The Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 4, 2022.
“Say Her Name: Articulations of Black Digital Feminism in the WNBA,” [Panel Participant]. 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference. Paris, France. May 28, 2022.
“‘Free From Obstruction": Meditations on the ‘Invention’ of Women's Hoops,” Artist Meets Critics: Abigail Smithson, [Panel Participant] 42nd Annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Montreal, Quebec. April 23, 2022.
“‘Let’s Get Loud’: Gender, Identity, and “Economies of Visibility” in the Super Bowl Halftime Show,” Co-presenter: Perry B. Johnson, [Panel Participant] 2022 International Association for Communication and Sport Summit on Communication and Sport, Glassboro, New Jersey, March 4, 2022.
“‘The World’s Biggest Stage’: Performing America through the ‘Acoustic Territories’ of the Super Bowl Halftime Show,” Co-presenter: Perry B. Johnson. [Panel Participant] 2022 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Virtual, March 1, 2022.
“Hegemonic Hangovers: Economies of Visibility and Harm Within the Wine Industry,” [Panel Participant] National Communication Association 107th Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, November 20, 2021.
“The Revolt of the College Athlete: Creative Resistance to the Dominance of the NCAA,” [Panel Participant] Sports Caucus Sponsored Panel, American Studies Association Conference, Virtual, October 13, 2021.
“‘The Dream Didn’t Fade, It Was Taken’: Sonic Regulation and Roller Skating on Venice Beach,” Co-presenter: Perry B. Johnson, [Panel Participant] Cultural Studies Association Conference, Virtual, June 11, 2021.
“Haram Hoops?: FIBA, Nike, and the Hijab's Half-Court Defense,” [Panel Participant] Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Virtual, March 17, 2021.
TEACHING
University of Oregon (2019 - )
UGST 112: Umoja Academic Residential Community
ES 101 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
ES 250: Introduction to African American Studies
ES 310: Race, Gender, and Sport
ES 399: Oregon Sporting Cultures
ES 460/560: Race, Class, Empire: The Olympics
ES 460/560: Race, Class, Empire: Postcolonial Wine
ES 614: Professional Development Colloquium
ES 619: Interdisciplinary Research Methods
ES 622: Cultural Production
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022-2023)
MACS 224: Sportsmedia Technology & Culture
MACS 199: Sport and Documentary
University of Southern California (2017-2018)
COMM 387: Sports and Social Change
COMM 204: Public Speaking
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP
2025 - Editorial Board, Communication & Sport
2025 - Editorial Board, Sociology of Sport Journal
2023 - Co-chair, Sports Studies Caucus, American Studies Association
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS MEMBERSHIP
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Global Sport University Network (Associate Member)
American Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
International Association for Communication and Sport
OTHER EXPERTISE/SKILLS
2022 - Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Diploma (Candidate)
2020-2021 Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 3
2020 Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 2
