Emily Fox

Emily Fox is a PhD candidate in Sociology with a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies who studies gender, friendship, and culture. Her dissertation research explores the social lives and experiences of people working in network marketing, an industry that relies heavily on relationships and social connections.

Her other work considers how gender, sexuality, and other social positions shape experiential aspects of friendship. An on-going collaborative project uses original survey data to understand how U.S. adults differentiate between platonic, romantic, and sexual attraction in their own lives. Respondents include substantial groups who identify as asexual and/or aromantic, which allows us to engage their unique perspectives and knowledge and to make comparisons across sexual and romantic identity. Emily's MA thesis used nationally representative survey data to show that young adults' reported closeness to their best friend is not only stratified by gender, but also ethnoracial identity and socioeconomic class.