NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

Dr. Mary McDonald, Professor, Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society will deliver the 2018 Alan Ingham Memorial Lecture with “Once More, With Feeling” Sporting Anthems and the Affective Turn.” Join NASSS as we honor and remember the life and work of Dr. Alan Ingham. This session is sponsored by Douglas College.

Sport, Social Innovation & Impact: Opportunities for Qualitative Researchers. This Plenary Session will focus on how viaSport use research and develop relationships with qualitative researchers to create change within the BC sport system.

Dr. Joshua I. Newman, Professor at Florida State University, will deliver the Presidential Address “Sport Sociology, In Question.”
 Dr. Joshua I. Newman is a Professor of Media, Politics, and Cultural Studies in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. Dr. Newman’s research and teaching draw upon critical theory and co-present techniques to interrogate the cultural and political economies of sport and the active body. In addition to having published numerous journal articles and book chapters on issues pertaining to sport and body cultures of the U.S. South, Dr. Newman is the author of two books, Embodying Dixie: Studies in the Body Pedagogics of Southern Whiteness (Common Ground, 2010) and Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (with Michael D. Giardina, Palgrave, 2011). His research manuscripts have been featured in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, American Behavioral Scientist, the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and Sociology of Sport Journal. Dr. Newman has served as a keynote or plenary speaker at the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry and the Physical Cultural Studies Annual Conference and is an editorial board member of the Sociology of Sport Journal.

Dr. Damion Thomas will present "The Role of Sport at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture."
Damion Thomas is the Museum Curator of Sports for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.  He earned a Ph.D. in United States History at UCLA.  Prior to joining the museum, he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland—College Park and the University of Illinois—Urbana/Champaign, where he taught courses that focused on sports in United States history, sports and U.S. race relations, and sports and black masculinity.  He is the author of Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics.

Dr. David J. Leonard is Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He will deliver, ““You’ve been on my mind like Kaepernick kneelin”: Hip-Hop, Heritage, and Hope in the Revolt of the Black Athlete."