Aaron Andrew Fox

Aaron Andrew Fox is an Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University, where he has been teaching since 1997. His work bridges musicology and social anthropology, focusing on cultural property, Indigenous rights, and working-class cultural analysis. He also serves as Director of Columbia's Center for Ethnomusicology since 2003.

• Education: PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Texas at Austin, 1995), AB in Music (Harvard College)

Research Interests: Fox's scholarship examines cultural repatriation and the sustainable preservation of Native American musical heritage. He collaborates with Indigenous communities to ethically return historical recordings from Columbia's archives, emphasizing reciprocity and community-driven knowledge. His earlier work analyzed American country music as a lens into working-class identity and language.

Publications: Recent articles address cultural property frameworks and repatriation ethics in global contexts. His book Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke University Press, 2004) deconstructs country music's role in American social dynamics.