Professor Diana Fox

Dr. Diana J. Fox is University Director, Institute for Gender and Development Studies-Regional Coordinating Office, The University of the West Indies. She is a professor of cultural anthropology, decolonial feminist scholar-activist, and documentary film producer.  Her work in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago over the last three decades has focused on issues of gender and sexual diversity, gender justice, sexual citizenship, HIV/AIDS education, transnational feminisms, women’s social movement activism for ecological sustainability, Indigenous women, Maroon identities and self-determination, and the human rights of girls and women. She serves as an academic advisor for the United Maroon Indigenous Peoples; researches women’s social and political art in Nepal, among other community, regional and transnational projects. Her research methodology centers around collaborative partnerships to achieve liberatory community goals around the rights of women, girls, and gender and sexually diverse populations.

Previously, she was Professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, USA, where she taught since 2000 and was Department Chair for eight, and coordinator of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program for six years.

Fox serves on a number of international boards and committees including the Sexualities Working Group of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), the international advisory board of the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP) in Trinidad and Tobago; the board of Friends of ADWAN (Association of Dalit Women’s Advancement Nepal), the Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality, and is the Founder and Editor of the open access, online Journal of International Women’s Studies since 1999.  She is the recipient of four Fulbright scholarships, two Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation grants as well as other grants, awards, and honors. She has served as conference chair for the annual World Conference on Women’s Studies since 2015. Professor Fox is the author of four books and is a frequent speaker at conferences, and other public venues.