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About Me

I grew up in the Central Valley of California, and during my time at Modesto Junior College I went through about a dozen different majors before I found and fell in love with anthropology. I liked college so much that after I transferred and graduated from UC Santa Barbara, I went on to get a Master's Degree in Anthropology at San Francisco State, and PhD in Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies! So if you want to go to grad school, or major in anthropology, I have plenty of advice to share.

My Research

My dissertation was about Bay Area African immigrants and asylum seekers' struggles with the US immigration system, in the context of bureaucratic backlogs, local gentrification, and increasingly racist immigration politics and policies. For my Master's thesis in medical anthropology, I investigated the barriers to HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, and treatment faced by French-speaking West African immigrants in the Bay Area. In undergrad I did a Senior Thesis on HIV/AIDS education while living abroad (aka doing fieldwork) in Ghana, West Africa. Throughout it all, I have been committed to collaborative and activist anthropology, and I have completed several community-based participatory research projects in partnership with the African Advocacy Network, an African-led legal and social services provider in San Francisco.

Publications:

Cox, Natalie. “No Safe Place for Someone Like Me: African Muslim Asylum Seekers React to Trump.” In Maintaining Refuge: Anthropological Reflections in Uncertain Times. Haines, David, Howell, Jayne, and Fethi Keles, eds. A Publication of the Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, and the American Anthropological Association, 2017.

My Teaching Philosophy

I believe education should be about listening, participating, learning, sharing, and making space for people from all different backgrounds and abilities to be heard and supported on their educational journey. In my classes you can expect a highly interactive, inclusive, and interesting learning experience (whether online or in-person).

How to get in touch with me:

You can contact me by email: ncox@ccsf.edu
If you are enrolled in one of my courses, you can also contact me through Canvas
I will respond within 24 - 48 hours, Monday through Friday
I can also be reached by phone: 415-239-3443 during my normal on-campus office hours
- Fall 2025 Office Hours: 2:00 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays (on zoom/in-person) or by appointment
- If none of these times work, just email me and we'll find a time

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