Research and Teaching
Broadly speaking, all my multi-disciplinary research and teaching efforts focus on mitigating structural inequality and uncovering how the multiplicative effects of identities such as class, race, ethnicity, or gender (among other identities and social positions) combine with sociopolitical and historical contexts to produce unequal outcomes.
I feel extraordinarily privileged and grateful to be doing the work I do. I am aware that through many privileges such as the luck of being born White and able-bodied in America, I have been given the space to do work I find meaningful.
Research
Generally, I consider myself a community, cultural and environmental sociologist who focuses on aspects of the structural determinants of the social determinants of health and cultural narratives. While completing my doctorate at the University of New Hampshire, I was awarded a five-year Community, Health, and Environment Fellowship. After almost ten years of teaching full-time at the university level until 2023, I’ve made the transition to research and program evaluation. I am currently a senior researcher at J.G. Research and Evaluation based in Bozeman, Montana.
Current research projects I work with at J.G. Research and Evaluation https://jgresearch.org/ include such projects as a community-based participatory research project in partnership with Buncombe County Partnership for Children focused on examining barriers to enrollment in North Caroline Pre-K, a community needs assessment of 5-counties in Montana, houselessness, and the State Opioid Response in Montana.
PUBLICATIONS:
Peer-reviewed articles published or under review:
Rink, Elizabeth, Mike Anastario, Malory Peterson, Paula FireMoon, Olivia Johnson, Ramey GrowingThunder, Adriann Ricker, Shannon Holder, Genevieve Cox, and Julie A. Baldwin. (2023). “Baseline results from Nen ŨnkUmbi/EdaHiYedo: A Randomized Clinical Trial to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Among American Indian Adolescents”. Journal of Adolescence ;1-16. DOI: 10.1002/jad.12158
Ormsbee, Rachel C., Winchell, Ashtyn, English, Jenny, Martian, Allie, Craig, Molly, Michaels, Nikki, Haab, Amanda, Girardot, Abigail, Winter, Lauren, Reed, Penelope, Hendricks, Clare, Gaarsland, Alison, D’Amico, Elizabeth, Southworth, Alysah, Blevins, Lilyannna, Saam, Tricia, and Cox, Genevieve. “Undergraduate student process reflections on utilizing photovoice to learn principles of feminist research”. Revise and resubmit at Feminist Pedagogy (accepted for submission June, 2023)
Cox, Genevieve R. and Green, Brandn. (2022). Lived experience in the Montana behavioral health crisis response system. JG Research and Evaluation. DOI: 10.36855/Crisis.2022
Cox, Genevieve R., Paula FireMoon, Mike Anastario, Adriann Ricker, Ramey GrowingThunder, Julie Baldwin, and Elizabeth Rink. (2021). “Indigenous Standpoint as a Theoretical Framework for Decolonizing Social Science Health Research with American Indian Communities”. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 17(4):460-468. doi:10.1177/11771801211042019
Cox, Genevieve R., Michael P. Anastario, Paula FireMoon, Adriann Ricker, and Elizabeth Rink. (2021). “Narrative Framing of Sexual and Reproductive Health Consequences of Historical Trauma as Choice Over Structure in an American Indian Community.” Sociology of Health & Illness. (Included within Black Lives Matter: Extended Special Section) 43(8):1774-1788. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13355.
Rink, Elizabeth, Michael Anastario, Olivia Johnson, Ramey GrowingThunder, Paula FireMoon, Adriann Ricker, Genevieve Cox, Shannon Holder. (2020). “The Development and Testing of a Multi-Level, Multi-Component Pilot Intervention To Reduce Sexual and Reproductive Health Disparities in a Tribal Community.” Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work
Cox, Genevieve R., Corinna Jenkins Tucker, Erin Sharp, Karen Van Gundy, and Cesar Rebellon. 2014. “Practical Considerations: Community Context in a Declining Rural Economy and Emerging Adults' Educational and Occupational Aspirations.” Emerging Adulthood. 2 (3): 173-183.
Tucker, Corinna Jenkins, Genevieve R. Cox, Erin Sharp, Karen Van Gundy, Cesar Rebellon, and Nena Stracuzzi. 2013. “Sibling Proactive and Reactive Aggression in Adolescence.” Journal of Family Violence. 28(3):299-310.
Cox, Genevieve R. 2011. “Poor Women with Sexually Transmitted Infections: Providers’ Perspectives on Diagnoses.” Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care. 11(2).
Cox, Genevieve R. and Corinna Jenkins Tucker. 2011. “No place like home: Place and community identity among North Country youth.” New England Issue Brief No. 24. January, 2011. The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire: Durham, NH.
Tucker, Corinna Jenkins and Genevieve R. Cox. 2011. “Coos teens’ view of their family economic stress tied to quality of relationships at home.” New England Issue Brief No. 28. October, 2011. The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire: Durham, NH.
Teaching
As a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Health & Human Development and in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University, I taught classes including the Ethic of Care, Program Evaluation for Community Health, Drugs and Society, Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Feminist Contributions to Community Research, and Human Sexuality. I’ve also been a full-time Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New Hampshire and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Maine Community College. I currently teach part-time for Southern Maine Community College and have stayed on in a part-time capacity teaching at Montana State University.
Other courses I’ve taught: Introduction to Sociology, Marriage and Family, Critical Thinking About Social Issues, Urban Sociology, Art in Society, Environment and Society, Social Problems, and Sociological Theory.
Past Research
Nen ŨnkUmbi-EdaHiYedo
From 2018 to 2021, I managed an R01 research project funded by the National Institutes of Health entitled Nen ŨnkUmbi/EdaHiYedo (“We Are Here Now,” or N/E) on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in rural northeast Montana. N/E is a multi-level, multi-component sexual and reproductive health (SRH) intervention using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework. N/E is based on Fort Peck tribal members’ desire to implement a holistic SRH intervention for AI youth.
Dissertation work
I wrote my dissertation on the importance of creating community cohesion in modernity, even amidst mobility and disintegrating relations of trust. I focused on arts communities (mainly those folks who attend the arts festival Burning Man) on the American West Coast. A trivial kind of research topic, according to some. But I disagree. Art gives us something to live for, a way to express what’s inside us, and ultimately a way to connect with others. And this is a similarity across many cultures, societies, and countries. Moreover, community cohesion and recognizing the importance of taking care of our most vulnerable populations goes hand in hand with community health and policies that work to mitigate inequality.
