School of Kinesiology faculty and graduate students attend North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Conference

Many faculty and graduate students from the School of Kinesiology attended the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Conference held in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to their attendance, some gave presentations and others won awards. 

Presentations

Dunja Antunovic, PhD, associate professor and director of the Media Analysis and Research in International Sport research group, presented as a part of a session titled "Intersections in Sport and Social Media." The presentation was based on a chapter about women's sports teams' uses of social media, co-authored with Kim Soltis, graduate student in sport sociology, and Joy Erlandson, undergraduate student in kinesiology.

Eri Lee, master's student studying sport sociology, presented her current project on the Sociology of Sport Journal and the state of the field concerning Asia and Asian spaces, cultures, and peoples using an Asian American studies framework to challenge the racialized geographies sport studies often operate within.

Awards

Mitchell McSweeney, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and associated with the Global Institute for Sport Organization (GIRSO), was granted the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Research Fellow Award. The award is granted to NASSS members who have had a continuous and high quality record of scholarship.

Hokeun Choi, master's student in sport management, received an honorable mention for the 2024 Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award. The paper was titled “Sometimes Your Presence Just Causes a Disturbance: Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Sports Medicine Practitioners in Elite Sport" and is based on Hokeun's undergraduate honor's thesis.