Courtney Cox: Working at ESPN, covering women's basketball in Russia, & sports media academia

Dr. Courney Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, where she focuses on the relationship between gender and sports. She worked as a production assistant at ESPN's Bristol, CT headquarters before getting her Master's in Journalism at the University of Texas. She then worked for the WNBA's LA Sparks, an NPR affiliate in Pasadena, CA, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School. Her dissertation took her internationally as she traveled to France and Russia to study labor and women's professional basketball. She then became an assistant professor at the University of Oregon and is currently an assistant professor at Illinois. She is the co-host and co-director of the Sound of Victory project and Sounding Off podcast (alongside interviewee Perry Johnson), and is a published author of "Double Crossover: Gender, Politics, and Performance in Basketball".

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Website: https://courtneymcox.com/

Sound of Victory project: https://www.thesoundofvictory.org/

Sounding Off Podcast: https://www.thesoundofvictory.org/podcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesoundofvictory/, https://www.instagram.com/courtmcox/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/courtmcox