CURRICULUM VITAE
Nicholas T. Cox
700 Grove St., apt. 9F cell: 617-877-3467
Jersey City, NJ 07310 email: xockcin@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
AB in Religion, GPA: 3.46 June 2010
Senior Thesis: “Adorno in the Present: An Essay on the Dialectic of Enlightenment”
Junior Paper: “The Eternal Contradiction: Toward a Holistic Understanding of Dialectic of Enlightenment”
Other papers include: “Adorno’s Elective Affinities”; “On Sense-Certainty and the Residue of Immediacy in Hegel and Adorno”; “The Greatest of All Shrubs: Gnosticism and the Elusive Gospel of Mark”; “Portions of Eternity: Subjective History in Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”; “Blood and Cash: A Marxian Interpretation of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt”; “’The Magic That Makes You Skinny’: The Magical Allure of the ‘Pink Patch’”; “Incalculable Forces: Re-Enchantment and Paranoia in Postwar America”
WRITING EXPERIENCE
Staff Writer, The Nassau Weekly, Princeton University paper Jan 2008-June 2010
Articles include: “The Ironic Generation”; “It’s Not Just a Dream: It’s Blu-Ray”; “In Defense of Anscombe”; “Out For Blood: A Genealogy of Darkness”; “Movies For a Recession Summer”; “’If I Could Just Leave My Body For a Night’: An Essay on Avatar”; “The True is the Hole: On Hegel and the Bagel”
Blogger, Equal Writes, Princeton University feminist blog April 2008-present
Topics include: Perspective on the deadlocked “abortion debate”; analysis of gender stereotypes in a Corona commercial; what if God is a woman?; analysis of the recent “cougar” meme; masculinity and emasculation in Super Bowl 2010 commercials; analysis of the debate surrounding the Dockers “Wear The Pants” ad campaign; should the Oscars be gender neutral?
WORK EXPERIENCE
Intern, Achievement First Crown Heights High School Summer 2009
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY
Supervisor: Bari Katz blk218@gmail.com
Responsibilities: Doing research for the school’s leadership program curriculum; assisting with curriculum materials; preparing the school building for the students’ arrival
Student Employee, Mudd Manuscript Library June 2008-May 2009
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Supervisor: Dan Brennan dbrennan@princeton.edu
Responsibilities: Entering contents of archives into database; running documents across campus; pulling files for library patrons; sorting and filing an archive of 19th century final exams.
Bookseller, Porter Square Books March 2006-August 2006
Cambridge, MA
Supervisor: Jane Dawson janed@portersquarebooks.com
Responsibilities: Ringing up customers; helping customers find books; placing special orders; gift-wrapping; shelving books; keeping the store tidy.
REFERENCES
Professor Jeffrey Stout (my senior thesis advisor) stout@princeton.edu
Professor Leora Batnitzky (my junior paper advisor) batnitzky@princeton.edu
Professor Elaine Pagels (an early mentor) epagels@princeton.edu