Emily Fox is a PhD student in the department of Sociology with a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her research considers how gender (particularly masculinities), sexuality, and other aspects of identity shape friendship experiences. In her Master's thesis, she used nationally representative data to show that young adults' reported closeness to their best friend is not only stratified by gender, but also ethnoracial identity. In another on-going project, she uses original survey data to understand how adults in the US (including asexual and/or aromantic adults) differentiate platonic, romantic, and sexual attraction and make sense of these relationship "categories." Moving forward, she plans to qualitatively investigate how men create, maintain, understand, and benefit from their friendships with each other.