Jon Cox

National Geographic Explorer

Assistant Professor of Art and Design, University of Delaware

Jon Cox is a National Geographic Explorer, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design and Project Liaison in the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories at the University of Delaware. He also serves as a Board Member of the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania and Board member of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research.

Cox worked on a six-year collaborative documentary book project with hunter-gatherers in Tanzania titled Hadzabe, By the Light of a Million Fires. Cox has directed over twenty photographic study abroad programs across the globe including destinations to Antarctica, South East Asia, Tanzania, Australia, Tasmania, Argentina and Peru. He was a pioneer in the field of digital photography, served as the adventure photographer/writer for Digital Camera Magazine and authored two Amphoto digital photography books.

Cox is a co-recipient of a National Geographic - Genographic Legacy Fund Grant to support his current collaborative cultural mapping initiative with the Ese’Eja hunter-gatherers living in the Amazonia basin of Peru. A traveling exhibition to accompany this project titled The Ese’Eja People of the Amazon: Connected by a Thread is currently on tour.