Center For Sports Leadership and Affiliates

Executive Committee

Stephen Ross, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Sports in Society

Mark Dyreson, Professor of Kinesiology, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Sports in Society

Daniel Beaver, Associate Professor of History / College of the Liberal Arts

Philip J. Bosha, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Team Physician for Penn State Athletics

Peter Hopsicker, Head, Division of Education, Human Development and Society Sciences / Penn State Altoona

Reuben Kraft, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Michael Poorman, Director of Alumni Relations / Bellisario College of Communications

John Powell, Director of Sports Business Programs / Smeal College of Business

Michelle Sikes, Assistant Professor in Kinesiology and African Studies

Andrew Wiesner, Lecturer in Statistics / Eberly College of Science

 

Involved Faculty

John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society / John Curley Center for Sports Journalism

Doug Allen, Retired Professor of Practice, School of Labor and Employment Relations

Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Mark Brennan, Professor and UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development

Linda Caldwell, Professor Emerita in Recreation, Park and Tourism Management and Faculty Athletic Representative

John Cheslock, Professor in Educational Policy Studies

Colleen English, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State Berks

Andrew Friesen, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology

Zack Furness, Associate Professor of Communications, Penn State Greater Allegheny

Debra Hawhee, Professor of English

Paul Hefty, Instructor in Kinesiology

Ty Hollett, Assistant Professor of Education Learning, Design and Technology

R. Scott Kretchmar, Professor in Kinesiology Emeritus

Javier Lopez FriasAssociate Professor in Kinesiology and the Rock Ethics Institute

Peter Newman, Professor and Department Head of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management

John Nichols, Professor Emeritus in Communication and National Co-Chair of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics

Cayce A. Onks, Primary Care Sports Medicine, Hershey Medical Center

Katie O’Toole | Lecturer and Instructor in Journalism

Russell Rose, Instructor in Kinesiology and Head Volleyball Coach Emeritus

Daniel Russell, Professor of Acoustics

Jaime Schultz, Professor in Kinesiology (sports history)

Jack Selzer, Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professor of Literature Emeritus

Geoffrey Scott, Professor of Law

Michelle Sikes, Assistant Professor in Kinesiology and African Studies

Zachary Smith, Assistant Teaching Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State Harrisburg

Christopher Tounsel, Assistant Professor of History and African Studies

Nancy Williams, Professor and Head of the Department of Kinesiology / College of Health and Human Development

J. Randall Woolridge, Professor of Finance and Goldman Sachs and Co. and Frank P. Smeal Endowed University Fellow