Dr. Joshua I. Newman
Dr. Joshua I. Newman is Co-Director of the Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development (SHED) and Professor of Sport, Media, and Cultural Studies in the Department of Sport Management.
He currently serves as Ph.D. Program Coordinator and Associate Chair in the Department of Sport Management. He has published three 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. His two most recent books have been selected as CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles and his journal articles have been published in top international journals within the field. Dr. Newman’s work has featured in episodes of The Society Pages, the Somatic Podcast, the Global Sport Institute Podcast, and in interviews for The Washington Post, TIME magazine, Buzzfeed, and the Associated Press. He is a Past-President and Research Fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS).
Dr. Newman earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland.