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My Research: It's like a physics professor owning a fireworks company...
What do I mean by this? Well, I study rhetoric, critical theory, and social change. But I also teach, do service, and generally live my life paying attention to, and usually trying to help, effect social change in a variety of ways. Thus, the work I do in my classrooms, athletic fields, meetings, and free time becomes a laboratory of sorts to be constantly thinking about, drawing up, and engaging with my area of expertise. It as if a physics professor owned a fireworks company and got to test out forces and explosions and blast patterns... Get it? The interconnections between my research, teaching and service is not uncommon in Communication Studies, but it's a tad rare overall. Which is fine with me! |
Alabama Program on sport comm:Fall 2018:
Dr. Charles Ross: Football & Protest In the fall of 2018 I am bringing Ole Miss professor of history Dr. Charles Ross for a public talk and class visits related to his research on NFL, football, race and protest. Fall 2016:
Jan Boxill, Ethics in NCAA Sport In the fall of 2016 I co-hosted Jan Boxill, a figure at the center of the UNC academic misconduct scandal, along with philosphy professor Dr. Seth Bordner for frank discussion of gender, race, sport, scapegoating and cover up. 
In Feb 2014 I brought Dr. Sue Rankin to UA's campus for a week-long visit to share her research on student athletes, LGBTQ+ students, and campus climate as a factor in academic and social success.
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publications & projects:Sport, Protest, Politics:
"Blocked out: Athlete Voice and WNBA Uniform Politics," with Judy Liao, in Uniformly Discussed: Sportswomen's Apparel, vol 1, editor Linda K. Fuller. Expected winter 2020. “Athletes and Assemblage: Political Struggle at the ESPYs.” In Sport, Protest & Political Struggle, Dan Grano & Mike Butterworth, Eds. New York: Peter Lang, Frontiers in Political Communication Series, forthcoming summer 2019. “Ideology, It’s in the Game: Selective Simulation in EA Sports’ NCAA Football.” With Ian Summers, in Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games & Culture of Play, Thomas Oates and Robert Brookey, (Eds.) Bloomington, IN: Univ Indiana Press (2014). “Coaching Neoliberal Citizen/Subjects, Fulfilling Fundamental Fantasies: Cultural Discourse of Fantasy Football.” In Sports & Identity: New Agendas in Communication, Barry Brummett & Andrew Ishak, (Eds.). New York: Routledge (2013). "Performing Social Class: The Case of Rutgers Basketball versus Don Imus." In Sporting Rhetoric, Brummett (Ed.). New York: Peter Lang (2009) “Busing and Basketball: Desegregating Austin High School Sports, 1971-72.” Online exhibit at George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Austin TX "Playing Fair: The Rhetorical Limits of Liberalism in Women's Sport at The University of Texas, 1927-1992." Dissertation (Texas, 2010). Activism, Social Change, Rhetoric: Queer Praxis: Questions for LGBTQ Worldmaking, contributing author, D. Goltz & J. Zingsheim (Eds.). New York: Peter Lang (2015). |