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 Frias, Associate 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