Courtney M. Cox

Courtney M. Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She is co-director of The Sound of Victory (SOV), an interdisciplinary, multi-platform project dedicated to investigating the intertwined relationship between music, sound, and sport. Her research examines issues related to labor, identity, and technology through sport. Her previous education includes a bachelor of journalism from The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication, an MA in Journalism from UT, and a PhD from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She previously worked for ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, and Austin, Texas (with Longhorn Network) and spent time at NPR-affiliate KPCC in Pasadena, California, and the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.

Posts by Courtney M. Cox

The Larger-Than-Life Black Football Coach Changes the World

Critics of Coach Prime often accuse him of providing all glitter with no game plan, but in its most decisive moments, Jean-Jacques Taylor’s book holds space for both the intentionality behind Deion Sanders’s decisions and the pomp and circumstance when the lights are bright.

Bionic Femmes and 60-Minute Women

At this moment, it feels more necessary than ever for fans and scholars of the game to draw longer lineages of women’s participation in football, a contribution that Frankie De La Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Archangelo offer in Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League.