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Adrian Burgos

Books:

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Becoming Suspects: Latinos, Baseball, and Belonging in a Multi-racial America,” in Beyond el Barrio, (New York: NYU Press, 2010): 81-99. (Co-Author with Frank Guridy)
“Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of the History of Jim Crow Baseball,” Social Text, 27: 198 (Spring 2009): 37-58.
“Entering Cuba’s Other Playing Field: Cuban Baseball and the Choice between Race and Nation,”Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 29 no. 1 (Feb. 2005): 9-40.
“Learning America’s Other Game: Baseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos,” in Latina/o Popular Culture: Cultural Politics into the Twenty-First Century, Mary Romero and Michelle Habell Pallan, ed., (New York: New York University Press, 2002): 225-239.

Michael Butterworth

Books:

Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity during the War on Terror
Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives (ed.)
Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle (co-edited with Daniel Grano)

Articles:

“Sport and the Quest for Unity: How the Logic of Consensus Undermines Democratic Culture,” Communication & Sport, 8.4-5 (2020): 452-472.
“George W. Bush as ‘The Man in the Arena’: Baseball, Public Memory, and the Rhetorical Redemption of a President.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 22 (2019): 1-31.
“Militarism and Memorializing at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9 (September 2012): 241-258.
“Saved at Home: Christian Branding and Faith Nights in the ‘Church of Baseball.’” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (August 2011): 309-333.

Noah Cohan

Book and Public Scholarship Project:

Articles:

“Baseball Fan Behavior as Postmodern Praxis in Don DeLillo's Underworld.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 36.2 (2019):
“New Media, Old Methods: Archiving and Close Reading the Sports Blog,” Journal of Sport History 44.2 (2017): 275-286.
“Why ‘Sport in the University’?: An Introduction,” American Studies 55.3 (2016): 5-18.
“Rewriting Sport and Self: Fan Self-Reflexivity and Bill Simmons's The Book of Basketball,” Popular Communication 11.2 (2013): 130-145.

Doug Hartmann

Books:

Articles and Book Chapters:

“The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 10: 543-569. (With Alex Manning and Kyle Green)
“Sport, Social Movements, and Athlete Activism.” Pp. 571-594 in Oxford Handbook of Sport & Society, edited by Lawrence Wenner, Oxford University Press.
“What Can We Learn from Sport if We Take Sport Seriously as a Racial Force? Lessons from C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26, 3: 451-483.
“Sport as Contested Terrain.” Pp. 405-415 in Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos. Oxford: Blackwell.

Victoria E. Johnson

Books:

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Sporting Community: Activism and Responsibility in Turbulent Times." Television & New Media 21, no. 6 (September 2020): 590-596.
"More Than A Game: LeBron James and the Affective Economy of Place." In Racism Postrace, eds. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Roopali Mukherjee, and Herman Gray. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, 154-177.
"'Together, We Make Football': The NFL's 'Feminine' Discourses." Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 14.1 (2016): 12-20.
"Monday Night Football: Brand Identity." How To Watch Television: Media Criticism In Practice, eds. Jason Mittell and Ethan Thompson (NY: New York University Press, 2013), 262-270.

Abraham I. Kahn

Book:

Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Curt Flood, Confrontational Rhetoric, and the Radical’s Constellation,” in Sport, Rhetoric, and the Political, ed. Michael Butterworth & Dan Grano (New York: Peter Lang). 2019.
“Michael Sam, Jackie Robinson, and the Politics of Respectability,” in Communication & Sport 5.3 (2017), 267-287.
“Race and Sport: A Disciplinary History and Exhortation,” in Defining Sport Communication, ed. Andrew Billings (New York: Routledge), 2017.
“A Rant Good for Business: Communicative Capitalism and the Capture of Anti-Racist Resistance,” (2016) Popular Communication 14(1), 39-48.

Jason Kido Lopez

Book:

Redefining Sports Media

Articles:

“Rewriting Activism: The NFL Takes a Knee,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 38.2 (2021): 183-196.
“Branding Athlete Activism” in Race and Media: Critical Approaches, ed. Lori Kido Lopez (New York: NYU, 2020), 67-76.
“ESPN+: Subscribing to Diversity, Marginalizing Women’s Sports” From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels, ed. Derek Johnson (London: Routledge, 2018),
“Deploying Oppositional Fandom: Activists’ Use of Sports Fandom in the Redskin Controversy,” in Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, eds. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington (New York: New York University Press, 2017).

Theresa Runstedtler

Books:

Articles and Book Chapters:

“In Sports the Best Man Wins: How Joe Louis Whupped Jim Crow,” in Ed. Amy Bass, In the Game: Race, Identity and Sports in the Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): 47-92.
“Punishing the Punch: Constructions of Black Criminality During the NBA’s ‘Dark Ages,’” Journal of African American History, vol. 104, no. 3 (Summer 2019): 445-473.
“More Than Just Play: Unmasking Black Child Labor in the Athletic Industrial Complex,” Special Issue: Consuming Athletic Labor, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, vol. 42, no. 3 (2018): 152-169.
“Racial Bias: Black Athletes, Reagan’s War on Drugs, and Big-time Sports Reform,” Special Issue: Sport in the University, American Studies, vol. 55, no. 3 (2016): 85-115. (Co-edited issue with Lucia Trimbur, Dan Gilbert, Tyran Steward, Noah Cohan)

Jaime Schultz

Books:

Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport
Moments of Impact: Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football
Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader

Articles:

“Going the Distance: The Road to the 1984 Olympic Women’s Marathon,” International Journal of the History of Sport 32.1 (2015): 72-88.
“Caster Semenya and the ‘Question of Too’: Sex Testing in Elite Women’s Sport and the Issue of Advantage,” Quest 63.2 (2011): 228-243.
“Leaning Into the Turn: Towards a New Cultural Sports History,” Sporting Traditions 27.2 (2010): 45-59.
“A Wager Concerning a Diplomatic Pig’: A Crooked Reading of the Floyd of Rosedale Narrative,” Journal of Sport History 32.1 (2005): 1-21.

Samantha N. Sheppard

Books:

Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen
Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary (co-edited with Travis Vogan)

Articles:

“Boobie Miles: Failure and Friday Night Lights,” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 43.4 (2019): 319-340.
“Close-Up: Mediated Contests: Sports, Race, and the Power of Narrative.” Black Camera: An International Journal 10.1 (Fall 2018): 156-161.
“The Exception That Proves the Rule: Race, Place, and Meritocracy in Rand University,” Black Camera: An International Journal 10.1 (Fall 2018): 162-176.
“Historical Contestants: African American Documentary Traditions in On the Shoulders of Giants,” Journal of Sports & Social Issues 41.6 (2017): 462-477.

Travers

Books:

Articles:

“The Sochi Olympics, Celebration Capitalism and Homonationalist Pride,” Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 41.1 (2017): 42-69 (with Mary Shearman)
“Thinking the unthinkable: Imagining an ‘un-American,’ Girl-friendly, Women- and Trans-Inclusive Alternative for Baseball,” Journal of Sport & Social Issue, Vol 37.1 (2013): 78-96.
“Women’s Ski Jumping, the 2010 Olympic Games and the Deafening Silences of Sex Segregation, Whiteness and Wealth,” in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 35.2 (2011): 126-145.
“The Sport Nexus and Gender Injustice,” Studies in Social Justice, 2.1 (2008): 79-101.

Thomas Oates

Books:

The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives
Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play (co-edited with Robert Allen Brookey)
Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL

Articles:

“Where I’m From': Jay-Z’s 'Hip Hop Cosmopolitanism,' Basketball, and the Neoliberal Politics of Urban Space," in Sociology of Sport Journal 37(3), 2020.
From Death to Spectacle: Football's Neoliberal Revolution, with Chris Henderson and Travis Vogan, in Addressing the Crisis: The Stuart Hall Project 1(1), 2019.
“The Erotic Gaze in the NFL Draft," in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4(1), 2007.
“Representing the Audience: The Gendered Politics of Sport Media,” in Feminist Media Studies 12(4), 2012.

Travis Vogan

Books:

Articles:

"Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics," in Sport History Review 50(1), 2019.
"Monday Night Football and the Racial Roots of the Network TV Event," in Television & New Media 18(3), 2017.
"Sporting Los Angeles: How the Olympics and Other Games Created America’s Most Glamorous City," in Journal of Urban History 47(6), 2021.

Journals in the field:

Book series: Studies in Sports Media, University of Illinois Press