Aimee Cox

Aimee Meredith Cox, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, movement artist, and Associate Professor at New York University. She serves as the Director of Training & Development and Lead Teacher at The Class, where she bridges embodied practice with rigorous scholarship.
She is the award-winning author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2015), recipient of the Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, among other honors. A former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Aimee’s research centers embodied citizenship, Black feminist thought, and the cultural life of movement.
A yogi of many decades and former performer with Ailey II and Dance Theatre of Harlem, Aimee integrates yoga, somatics, and critical inquiry into her pedagogy worldwide.