Dr. Adam Beissel is an Assistant Professor of Sport Leadership & Management at Miami University (OH – USA). Adam’s scholarship interrogates the geopolitical economy of sport. His primary research interests include: the Economics of Sport Mega-Events; Geopolitics of Sport; Sport Stadiums and Urban Development; Social and Economic (in)justice in College Sport; Sports Labor Markets and Global Athletic Migration; and Sport Globalization. Adam is currently working on two research projects critically examining the political economy of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup joint hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Dr. Julie Brice in an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University Fullerton. She is a feminist sport sociologist whose main research topics include women’s experience of fitness and exercise cultures, women’s professional soccer, and the impact of posthumanist theory on physical cultural research.

Dr. Jaime DeLuca's sociological research interests explore the intersection between health, embodiment, and motherhood. Specifically she interrogates how social structures and individual agency impact the way in which women who are mothers experience and engage in physical activity. She also maintains a line of scholarship focused on sport management education which seeks to understand student experiences in the classroom with particular emphasis on pedagogy related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Dr. Shaun Edmonds is currently an Associate Professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. His current research interests include CrossFit and the experiences of transgender and non-binary individuals in non-sport physical activity spaces.

Dr. Ryan King-White is an Associate Professor of Sport Management at Towson University. His work utilizes critical pedagogy and cultural studies inspired theories and methodologies to understand the active body.

Dr. Callie Batts Maddox is an associate professor in the Department of Sport Leadership and Management at Miami University. Current research interests include the globalization of women's baseball and American yoga culture. Studied International Sport Policy at the University of Brighton and received undergraduate degrees in History and International Studies at Whittier College.

Doctor in Physical Education (2021). Visiting researcher at the University of Maryland (2019-2020). Adjunct Professor at Federal University of Mato Grosso. Member of Brazilian College of Sports Sciences (CBCE/ Scientific Committee of Gender). Research focus on physical culture as an effect of gender and sexuality relations, through political and pedagogical analyzes in PE.

Monica Nelson, M.A., is a PhD student in Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at the University of Waikato who completed her Masters in Kinesiology with UMD PCS in 2021. Her research interests center around Olympic Weightlifting and other strength sports, and particularly focus on relationships between gender and maximal strength.

Dr. Joshua I. Newman is the College of Education’s Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Sport, Media, and Cultural Studies in the Department of Sport Management. He has published five books and more than 100 articles and chapters on issues related to social inequalities, cultural politics, and political economics and ecologies of sport and physical activity.

Dr. Anna Posbergh completed her PhD at UMD in Kinesiology (Physical Cultural Studies) and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. She is a qualitative critical feminist scholar who examines the governance and regulation of women athletes and their bodies, particularly through policies and media representations.

Shannon Scovel completed her PhD at UMD in the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland studying sports, media and gender. She is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Scovel’s recent research has explored how women athletes promote themselves online in the era of Name, Image and Likeness.

Jared Strange graduated with his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from UMD in 2023. He is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs at the National Theatre Foundation. His primary research concerns the intersections of theatre, performance, and sport.