Sarah Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0035-4733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
South Asian women’s experiences of alcohol use and the role of the family
Background Family plays an important role in helping or hindering a loved one’s alcohol recovery and this is particularly true in South Asian communities. In South Asian cultures women are seen as the keepers of the izzat (family honour), and to behave in ways that can jeopardise the izzat, such as drinking alcohol, can have a grave impact on women’s health and wellbeing. This paper explores the lived experiences of alcohol use and help-seeking a…
AI failure loops in devalued work
A growing body of literature has focused on understanding and addressing workplace artificial intelligence (AI) design failures. However, past work has largely overlooked the role of the devaluation of worker expertise in shaping the dynamics of AI development and deployment. In this paper, we examine the case of feminized labor: a class of devalued occupations historically misnomered as “women’s work,” such as social work, K-12 teaching, and hom…
Anticipating Birth in Early Modern England
Scholars have described the days leading up to birth in the early modern period as a time when women purchased linens, prepared bedchambers, and called upon the services of a midwife and their gossips. However, manuscript recipe collections reveal that preparations in anticipation of labour went beyond such measures and incorporated the consumption of specific medicines. This article studies remedies that were designed to be taken six weeks befor…
The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy
Academic and popular accounts of tech oligarchy focus on the outsized influence and motivations of a handful of billionaire Silicon Valley elites (Cohen, 2025; Farkas and Mondon, 2025). These accou...
Mainstreaming Equitable Climate Action through Growth Management Planning in Washington State, United States
Climate change has already affected the Pacific Northwest in multiple ways, and some jurisdictions across Washington State have begun preparing for climate change by investing in climate adaptation plans or greenhouse gas emission reduction plans. In 2023, Washington State passed House Bill (HB) 1181, a law that expanded the state’s Growth Management Act (RCW 36.70A) to require counties and cities to explicitly address climate risks and vulnerabi…
Oh, you’re watching me ”
Domestic workers have long been marginalized, even as they are made hypervisible to their employers. This is a process increasingly augmented by digital technologies. These technologies include care platforms, which have increasingly mediated the process of finding employment. This article reports on interviews with in-home childcare workers or “nannies” who shared experiences of scrutiny and surveillance across the labor process, both on and off…
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy
George III was a family man, a modest eater, and a thoughtful ruler who wrote about the big questions of the day, from royal sovereignty to the best methods of agriculture to feed a modern nation. His writings provide a glimpse of his version of monarchy, which placed him at the head of a national family, where he embodied the habits of self-regulation and temperance in keeping with the sensibilities of late eighteenth-century manhood. This artic…
Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This article examines the lived experiences of the older body—the embodiment of old age—from the perspective of older people. It uses letters written from 1680 to 1820 by twenty-two women and men aged between sixty and eighty-nine, selected from a corpus of over 391 letter writers. We begin by exploring the embodied experiences discussed by older people, as well as their understanding of the relationship between these experiences and their later …
Birth Figures
An Examination of How Spending Time Together Impacts the Quality of Relationship Between Native American Stepchildren and Their Residential Stepparent
Studies have shown that stepchildren are a vulnerable population and are at increased risk of experiencing a number of challenges. Utilizing data from the Stepfamily Experiences Project (STEP) with a focus on the Native American subsample ( n = 340), this study examined how spending time together impacts the quality of relationship between Native American stepchildren and their residential stepparent. Results showed that spending time together wa…
I was easier for him to control when I was drunk
Many women who are victims of domestic abuse also experience problematic substance use; yet there is a gap in knowledge concerning the interplay of both issues from the perspective of women. While some may use substances to cope with the impact of abuse, their use of substances can also be used against them by the perpetrator as a means of control. This narrative study seeks to reduce the gap in knowledge regarding women’s substance use and victi…
Three Thousand Dishes on a Georgian Table
This data paper introduces and contextualizes a new digital resource in food history that includes a digitization and interpretation of two substantial kitchen ledgers from the palaces of King George III and his son (future) George IV of Great Britain, between 1788 and 1813. These bills of fare contain the daily food allocations of every table in the two palaces. They include more than 3,000 unique dish constructions and more than 40,000 served d…
Midwives’ oaths
This article explores historical and legal approaches to past society, asking what each has to offer the other. Using early modern midwives’ oaths as a case study, it examines the extent to which the law shapes everyday life and society, and vice versa allowing us to situate early modern midwives at the intersection of a number of important and competing seventeenth-century institutions including state, church, society, and profession. We argue t…
Archival Intimacies
This article explores the use of empathy in historical research. Using evidence collected from a number of academic historians working in UK higher education institutions in 2022, this article uses empathy as a window into historians’ attitudes towards the professional self, the appearance of objectivity and their relationship to the historical subject. It explores the role of empathy in learning history, teaching history, in historical research …
Sharing the Sidewalk
Sidewalk delivery robots are being deployed as a form of last-mile delivery. While many such robots have been deployed on college campuses, fewer have been piloted on public sidewalks. Furthermore, there have been few observational studies of robots and their interactions with pedestrians. To better understand how sidewalk robots might integrate into public spaces, the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania conducted a pilot of sidewalk delivery robots…
Hormonal Advantage
Technologies and self-help protocols associated with menstrual tracking have gained popularity over the past decade, with wellness consultants such as Alisa Vitti at the helm. Through careful monitoring and lifestyle changes, such techniques promise to unleash an inherent hormonal advantage that can extend one’s personal and professional pursuits. Though seemingly new, these approaches to menstrual monitoring have an historical lineage born of co…
Tech labor
research-article Open Access Share on Tech labor: a new interactions forum Authors: Seyram Avle University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, AmherstView Profile , Sarah Fox Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 4July - August 2021 pp 24–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3466994Online:30 June 2021Publication History 0citation4,388DownloadsMetricsTotal Citatio…
Accounting for Design Activism
We use two cases of design activism to examine designers' forms of positionality—or, the relations that enter into the formation of design interventions and the ways that a designer's situation affects the matter of those designs. We argue, by recognizing the stakes of their interventions and by mapping their contingencies, designers call into question the promise of their reforms—opening opportunities for responsive revision
Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World
"Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World: European and Middle Eastern Cultures, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Cursor Mundi Series), edited by Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Alessandra Foscati, and Charles Burnett." Women's Studies, 49(3), pp. 339–340
The ‘Working Body’
Appeals to ‘nature’ have historically led to normative claims about who is rendered valuable. These understandings elevate a universal, working body (read able-bodied, white, producing capital) that design and disability studies scholar Aimi Hamraie argues ‘has served as a template [...] for centuries’ (2017: 20), becoming reified through our architectural, political, and technological infrastructures. Using the framing of the cyborg, we explore …
The Ties that Bind
The Ties that Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England." The Seventeenth Century, 35(1), pp. 134–135
The Woman was a Stranger
On 17 December 1766 James Field stood accused at the Old Bailey of the ‘wilful murder of a new born child, by casting it into a tub of water’. The case was exceptional in many ways—not only was the accused male but he and his family had removed themselves from the network of neighbourly interactions that characterised lower status life in this period. As a result, the court's deposition statements record ideas of belonging and community with unus…
Glimmers and half-built projects
This forum highlights conversations at the intersection of design methods and social studies of technology. By highlighting a diversity of perspectives on design interventions and programs, we aim to forge new connections between HCI design and communication, science and technology studies, and media studies scholarship. --- Daniela Rosner, Editor
Better Journeys for People with Dementia in Northern Sydney
Introduction: Dementia is a complex and chronic disease and is currently the second leading cause of death in Australia, three in ten people over the age of 85 and almost one in ten people over 65 have dementia. In Northern Sydney, there is projected growth of 23% in the population of people aged 75 years and older between 2011 and 2021, indicating a substantial increase in the number of people with dementia in the region over the next 6 years. T…
Extensions from the 'field
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
The Influence of Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychological Barriers on Use of Mammography
This study assessed the relative influence of psychological barriers, SES, and ethnic differences in mammography use for a community sample of 586 White, 227 Black, and 150 Hispanic women. Confirmatory factor analyses with latent variables indicated plausible factor structures for all groups on items related to barriers to mammography. Summed indicators of SES, fear of radiation, embarrassment, pain, anxiety, and cost concerns were correlated sig…
Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace
Popular portraits of hacking have often relied on histories of hobbyist engineering culture rooted in tales of middle-class, college-educated, and often male technologists. Since 2012, members of a mother-operated hackerspace in the East Bay of San Francisco, California, have countered these narratives, revealing hackerspaces as sites with which to refigure masculine claims to innovation and progress. Drawing on critical craft studies and studies…
Role of Black Churches in Health Promotion Programs
Objectives. This article assesses pastor-level factors that affect the successful recruitment and implementation of community-based health promotion programs in Black churches. Methods. Semistructured interviews with 16 pastors of Black churches were analyzed for content. Results. We found that although the involvement of Black pastors in an array of secular activities makes them open to participate in health programs, their overcommitment to oth…
Beyond the Public Sphere. Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe
Archival Intimacies
This article explores the use of empathy in historical research. Using evidence collected from a number of academic historians working in UK higher education institutions in 2022, this article uses empathy as a window into historians’ attitudes towards the professional self, the appearance of objectivity and their relationship to the historical subject. It explores the role of empathy in learning history, teaching history, in historical research …
Sharing the Sidewalk
Sidewalk delivery robots are being deployed as a form of last-mile delivery. While many such robots have been deployed on college campuses, fewer have been piloted on public sidewalks. Furthermore, there have been few observational studies of robots and their interactions with pedestrians. To better understand how sidewalk robots might integrate into public spaces, the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania conducted a pilot of sidewalk delivery robots…
Breast cancer screening recommendations
Fox, Sarah A. EdD, MPH; Klos, Dennis S. PhD; Tsou, Carole V. MD; Baum, Janet K. MD Author Information
The Effect of Physician-Patient Communication on Mammography Utilization by Different Ethnic Groups
The differential utilization of screening mammography by racial/ethnic groups was examined through 35-minute bilingual, random digit dialed telephone interviews with 1,057 women over age 35 years. Results showed that 71% of hispanic women had never had a mammogram and that only 27% over age 50 years had had one in the year before the survey. White and black women over the age of 50 years were being screened more frequently with 34% of white women…
The Influence of Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychological Barriers on Use of Mammography
This study assessed the relative influence of psychological barriers, SES, and ethnic differences in mammography use for a community sample of 586 White, 227 Black, and 150 Hispanic women. Confirmatory factor analyses with latent variables indicated plausible factor structures for all groups on items related to barriers to mammography. Summed indicators of SES, fear of radiation, embarrassment, pain, anxiety, and cost concerns were correlated sig…
Use of Cancer Screening Practices by Hispanic Women
Role of Black Churches in Health Promotion Programs
Objectives. This article assesses pastor-level factors that affect the successful recruitment and implementation of community-based health promotion programs in Black churches. Methods. Semistructured interviews with 16 pastors of Black churches were analyzed for content. Results. We found that although the involvement of Black pastors in an array of secular activities makes them open to participate in health programs, their overcommitment to oth…
Sexual Orientation and Testing for Prostate and Colorectal Cancers Among Men in California
BACKGROUND: Previous quantitative studies have not compared the use of prostate and colorectal cancer (CRC) testing between gay/bisexual and heterosexual men. METHODS: We analyzed cross-sectional data on 19,410 men in the California Health Interview Survey. The percentage of respondents age 50 and over who received prostate and CRC tests was calculated across subgroups defined by self-reported sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and a combined va…
Conservation Fallout
Journal Article Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon Get access Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. By Wills John. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xv + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Sarah Fox Sarah Fox Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2008, Pages 72–73, ht…
Adherence to Mammography and Colorectal Cancer Screening in Women 50–80 Years of Age
Beyond the Public Sphere. Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe
Extensions from the 'field
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace
Popular portraits of hacking have often relied on histories of hobbyist engineering culture rooted in tales of middle-class, college-educated, and often male technologists. Since 2012, members of a mother-operated hackerspace in the East Bay of San Francisco, California, have countered these narratives, revealing hackerspaces as sites with which to refigure masculine claims to innovation and progress. Drawing on critical craft studies and studies…
Glimmers and half-built projects
This forum highlights conversations at the intersection of design methods and social studies of technology. By highlighting a diversity of perspectives on design interventions and programs, we aim to forge new connections between HCI design and communication, science and technology studies, and media studies scholarship. --- Daniela Rosner, Editor
Better Journeys for People with Dementia in Northern Sydney
Introduction: Dementia is a complex and chronic disease and is currently the second leading cause of death in Australia, three in ten people over the age of 85 and almost one in ten people over 65 have dementia. In Northern Sydney, there is projected growth of 23% in the population of people aged 75 years and older between 2011 and 2021, indicating a substantial increase in the number of people with dementia in the region over the next 6 years. T…
The Woman was a Stranger
On 17 December 1766 James Field stood accused at the Old Bailey of the ‘wilful murder of a new born child, by casting it into a tub of water’. The case was exceptional in many ways—not only was the accused male but he and his family had removed themselves from the network of neighbourly interactions that characterised lower status life in this period. As a result, the court's deposition statements record ideas of belonging and community with unus…
Accounting for Design Activism
We use two cases of design activism to examine designers' forms of positionality—or, the relations that enter into the formation of design interventions and the ways that a designer's situation affects the matter of those designs. We argue, by recognizing the stakes of their interventions and by mapping their contingencies, designers call into question the promise of their reforms—opening opportunities for responsive revision
Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World
"Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World: European and Middle Eastern Cultures, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Cursor Mundi Series), edited by Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Alessandra Foscati, and Charles Burnett." Women's Studies, 49(3), pp. 339–340
The ‘Working Body’
Appeals to ‘nature’ have historically led to normative claims about who is rendered valuable. These understandings elevate a universal, working body (read able-bodied, white, producing capital) that design and disability studies scholar Aimi Hamraie argues ‘has served as a template [...] for centuries’ (2017: 20), becoming reified through our architectural, political, and technological infrastructures. Using the framing of the cyborg, we explore …
The Ties that Bind
The Ties that Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England." The Seventeenth Century, 35(1), pp. 134–135
Hormonal Advantage
Technologies and self-help protocols associated with menstrual tracking have gained popularity over the past decade, with wellness consultants such as Alisa Vitti at the helm. Through careful monitoring and lifestyle changes, such techniques promise to unleash an inherent hormonal advantage that can extend one’s personal and professional pursuits. Though seemingly new, these approaches to menstrual monitoring have an historical lineage born of co…
Tech labor
research-article Open Access Share on Tech labor: a new interactions forum Authors: Seyram Avle University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, AmherstView Profile , Sarah Fox Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 4July - August 2021 pp 24–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3466994Online:30 June 2021Publication History 0citation4,388DownloadsMetricsTotal Citatio…
Three Thousand Dishes on a Georgian Table
This data paper introduces and contextualizes a new digital resource in food history that includes a digitization and interpretation of two substantial kitchen ledgers from the palaces of King George III and his son (future) George IV of Great Britain, between 1788 and 1813. These bills of fare contain the daily food allocations of every table in the two palaces. They include more than 3,000 unique dish constructions and more than 40,000 served d…
Midwives’ oaths
This article explores historical and legal approaches to past society, asking what each has to offer the other. Using early modern midwives’ oaths as a case study, it examines the extent to which the law shapes everyday life and society, and vice versa allowing us to situate early modern midwives at the intersection of a number of important and competing seventeenth-century institutions including state, church, society, and profession. We argue t…
Archival Intimacies
This article explores the use of empathy in historical research. Using evidence collected from a number of academic historians working in UK higher education institutions in 2022, this article uses empathy as a window into historians’ attitudes towards the professional self, the appearance of objectivity and their relationship to the historical subject. It explores the role of empathy in learning history, teaching history, in historical research …
Sharing the Sidewalk
Sidewalk delivery robots are being deployed as a form of last-mile delivery. While many such robots have been deployed on college campuses, fewer have been piloted on public sidewalks. Furthermore, there have been few observational studies of robots and their interactions with pedestrians. To better understand how sidewalk robots might integrate into public spaces, the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania conducted a pilot of sidewalk delivery robots…
I was easier for him to control when I was drunk
Many women who are victims of domestic abuse also experience problematic substance use; yet there is a gap in knowledge concerning the interplay of both issues from the perspective of women. While some may use substances to cope with the impact of abuse, their use of substances can also be used against them by the perpetrator as a means of control. This narrative study seeks to reduce the gap in knowledge regarding women’s substance use and victi…
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