Dr. Diana Fox

Diana J. Fox is Professor of Anthropology, a cultural, decolonial feminist scholar-activist anthropologist, and documentary film producer. She is incoming University Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Regional Coordinating Office (Fall 2022-August 2024), after which, she will return to Bridgewater State University, her academic home since 2000.

Her work in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago over the last three decades has focused on gender and sexual diversity, HIV/AIDS stigma and education, transnational feminisms, women’s social movement activism for ecological sustainability and the human rights of girls and women. Since 2015, she has worked on gender and climate justice with the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP) in Trinidad; served as an academic advisor for the United Indigenous Maroon Peoples; served as a consultant for gender inclusive curricula in Japan; and researched women’s social and political art in Nepal, among other community, regional and transnational projects.

She has been conference chair for the World Conference on Women’s Studies since 2015. She is committed to collaborative partnerships to achieve liberatory community goals, equity, and ecological sustainability, particularly around the rights of women, girls, and gender and sexually diverse populations.

She 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, the international advisory board of PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action, India).

She and is the Founder and Editor of the open access, online Journal of International Women’s Studies since 1999. At Bridgewater State University, she served as Department Chair for 8 years; was co-Chair of the Curriculum and Co-Curriculum Subcommittee of BSU university President’s Anti-Racist Task Force and Trans Working group, among other committees and working groups including: The Sustainability Program, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film Studies, African American Studies, Asian Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Native and Indigenous Studies, working with colleagues to initiate the first annual Indigenous Peoples Day at Bridgewater State University in 2020.

She is the recipient of four Fulbright scholarships, two Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation grants as well as other grants, awards and honors, has published a number of books and articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences, and other public venues.