Speakers
Adrian Burgos
Adrian Burgos is Professor of History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball, and co-editor of Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America
Michael Butterworth
Michael Butterworth is the Richards Chair for the University of Texas Program in Sports and Media, and Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. He is the author of Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity during the War on Terror, co-author of Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field, editor of Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives, and co-editor of Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle.
Noah Cohan
Noah Cohan is Assistant Director and Lecturer in American Cultural Studies at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the author of We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sports and founding coordinator of the American Studies Association’s Sport Studies Caucus.
Douglas Hartmann
Douglas Hartmann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and their Aftermath and Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy.
Victoria E. Johnson
Victoria E. Johnson is Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity and Sports TV. Johnson also co-edits the University of Illinois Press book series Studies in Sports Media and serves as president of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
Abraham Khan
Abraham Khan is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Racism, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete.
Jason Kido Lopez
Jason Kido Lopez is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Redefining Sports Media.
Daniel Nasset
Daniel Nasset is Editor-in-Chief at the University of Illinois Press. He acquires books in the fields of communication and journalism, film and media studies, and sports studies. He also acquires and develops Chicago and Illinois-related titles, particularly those exploring politics and architecture.
Theresa Runstedtler
Theresa Runstedtler is Associate Professor of History at American University in Washington D.C. She is the author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line and Black Ball: Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Shaped the Soul of the NBA.
Jaime Schultz
Jaime Schultz is Professor of Kinesiology at Penn State University. She is the author of Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport, Moments of Impact: Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football, Women’s Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know, and co-editor of American National Pastimes—A History and Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader. Schultz is also co-editor of the University of Illinois Press book series Sport and Society.
Samantha N. Sheppard
Samantha N. Sheppard is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Sheppard is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen and co-editor of Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary and From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry.
Travers
Travers is Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. They are the author of Writing the Public in Cyberspace: Redefining Inclusion on the Net, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution, and co-editor of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport. Travers is also Deputy Editor of the journal Gender & Society.