John Nauright

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Professor John Nauright, PhD (Queen's University, Canada), BA, MA (University of South Carolina, USA) is Dean of the Richard J. Bolte, Sr. School of Business and Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland, USA. He is Visiting Professor of the Higher School of Economics in Russia. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Ghana; University of the West Indies, Cave Hill in Barbados; and at Borys Grinchenko University in Ukraine. He also directs the Global Rugby Leadership Institute, a network of leading rugby education universities around the world.

He is the author or editor of 26 books and author of more than 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters in the fields of sport management and sport studies; African studies; globalization studies; tourism management; cultural studies; gender studies; and physical education. His four volume work (edited with Charles Parrish) Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice (ABC-CLIO, 2012) was named by Library Journal as a Best of Reference Work for 2012. He books Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity and Rugby and the South African Nation were awarded best edited and authored works respectively by the World Rugby Museum at the inaugural World in Union Rugby World Cup conference in 2015.

• 2014–present Visiting Professor of Sport Management, University of Ghana
• 2021–present Dean of Business, Mount St. Mary's University
• 2009–present Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
• 2013–present Professor of Sport and Leisure Management, University of Brighton
• 2019–2021 Dean of Business, Lock Haven University
• 2016–2019 Chair of Kinesiology, University of North Texas
• 2009–2013 Visiting Professor of Sport, Bodies and Health, Aarhus University
• 2007–2013 Professor of Sport Management, George Mason University
• 2006–2009 Visiting Professor of American Studies and History, University of Lincoln
• 2003–2007 Professor of Sport and Recreation Management, Georgia Southern University
• 2001–2003 Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies, University of Abertay Dundee
• 2000–2001 Danish Sports Council Visiting Professor, University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark
• 1999–2000 Professor of Sports Studies, Charles Sturt University
• 1993–1999 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Studies, The University of Queensland
• 1992–1993 Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Studies, University of Otago
• 1990–1991 Instructor, Department of History, Queen's University, Canada

• 1992  Queen's University, Canada, PhD
• 1988  University of South Carolina, MA
• 1985  University of South Carolina, BA

• 2015 Sport and Revolutionaries, Routledge
• 2015 On Neoliberal global sport and African bodies, Critical African Studies
• 2015 Beyond CLR James: Race and Ethnicity in Sport, University of Arkansas Press
• 2015 Last Zulu Warrior Standing: Race and Ethnobranding in the New South Africa, International Journal of the History of Sport
• 2015 Beyond The Sport-Media-Tourism Complex: An Agenda for Transforming Sport., International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education Bulletin
• 2014 Sport and the neoliberal world order, Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies
• 2014 Soccer Around the World, ABC-CLIO Press
• 2014 Making soccer 'Major League' in the USA and beyond: Major League Soccer's first decade., Sport History Review
• 2013 Destination South Africa: comparing global sports mega events and recurring localized sports events in South Africa for tourism and economic development, Current Issues in Tourism
• 2013 Making soccer 'Major League' in the USA and beyond: Major League Soccer's first decade, Sport History Review
• 2013 Worlds apart?: The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Reflections on the 2010 World Cup (pp. 189-199). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
• 2013 Singing a Powerful Song: The Saw Doctors, sports and singing Irish identities., Sport in Society
• 2013 Selling Nations to the World Through Sports: Mega-Events and Nation Branding as Global Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy
• 2013 Futbol Cantitos: Negotiating masculinity in Argentina, Soccer and Society
• 2012 Sports Around the World: History, Culture and Practice. 4 vols., ABC-CLIO Press
• 2012 The Modern Olympics and the Triumph of Capitalist Sport, History Workshop Online
• 2011 New Directions in South African sports history, International Journal of the History of Sport
• 2010 Who owns England's game? American professional sporting influences and foreign ownership in the Premier League, Soccer and Society
• 2010 “It's Much More Important than Money”: The Ryder Cup, Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History (pp. 305-326) Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press
• 2010 The Routledge Companion to Sports History, Routledge Press
• 2010 Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa, Fitness Information Technology Press
• 2010 Problems and prospects for community-based tourism in the New South Africa: The 2010 FIFA World Cup and beyond, African Historical Review
• 2009 The New Sport Management Reader, Fitness Information Technology Press
• 2009 Sport, development and globalization: Perspectives from south-east Asia, Developing Asia (pp. 195-214) Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press.
• 2007 Going global: The NBA sets its sights on Africa, International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
• 2007 Globalization and the fitness industry: A case study of 24 Hour Fitness and its expansion into Asia, International Journal of Fitness
• 2007 Rugby et identité nationale en Nouvelle-Zélande, STAPS: Revue internationale des sciences du sport et de l'éducation physiques
• 2006 A green game?: A global perspective on the environmental impact of golf, Sport in Society
• 2006 From 'Native Village' to 'Dark City': population growth, class, politics and local administration in Alexandra Township, South Africa 1933-1943, Historia
• 2005 White man's burden revisited: race, sport and reporting the Hansie Cronje cricket crisis in South Africa and beyond, Sport History Review
• 2005 Team Yao: Yao Ming, the NBA and selling sport to China, American Journal of Chinese Studies
• 2005 Ethics, economics and tourism: Myanmar as a case study, Tourism Recreation Research
• 2005 Cornish miners and the Witwatersrand gold mines in South Africa 1886-1904, Cornish History
• 2005 The Political Economy of Sport, Palgrave Macmillan (Political Economy Series)
• 2004 The commercialization of the Olympics, The Commercialization of Sport (pp. 185-204) London: Frank Cass (now Routledge).
• 2004 Sport, community, class and religion: Rugby league and cultural identity in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Sporting Traditions
• 2004 Global games: culture, political economy, and sport in the globalized world of the twenty-first century, Third World Quarterly
• 2003 The Essence of Sport, University of Southern Denmark Press
• 2003 'A hapless attempt at swimming': media representations of Eric Moussambani, Critical Arts: Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies
• 2003 Sport, race and embodiment in South Africa, Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora
• 2002 Mediated nostalgia, community and nation: A case study of print media representations of the Canadian Football League in crisis and the demise of the Ottawa Rough Riders 1986-1996, Sport History Review
• 2001 Obliterating history for leisured consumption: The new South Africa in the global sports and tourism order, Journal of Sport and Tourism
• 2000 Sport and Australasian Society: Past and Present , Frank Cass (now Routledge)
• 2000 'An experiment in native self-government': The Alexandra Health Committee, the state and local politics, 1916-1933, South African Historical Journal
• 2000 Selling the 'spirit of the Dream': Olympologies and the corporate invasion of the classroom, Old Borders, New Borders, No Borders: Sport and Physical Education in a Period of Change (pp. 431-440). Aachen: Meyer & Meyer.
• 2000 Women, sport and embodiment in Australia and New Zealand, International Journal of the History of Sport
• 1999 'Bhola Lethu': football and urban popular culture in South Africa, Football in the Making: Developments in the World Game (pp. 189-200). London: Macmillan
• 1999 Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce, Frank Cass (now Routledge)
• 1999 The end of sports history?: From sports history to sports studies, Sporting Traditions
• 1999 Making an international legend: The media, Pat O'Dea and Midwestern American Football in the 1890s and 1930s, Football Studies
• 1999 Sports fan movements to save suburban-based teams threatened with amalgamation in different football codes in Australia, International Sports Studies
• 1998 South Africa, The Imperial Game: Cricket and Cultural Power (pp. 55-78). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• 1998 Rugby and the South African Nation, Manchester University Press
• 1998 The mecca of native scum' and 'A running sore of evil': White Johannesburg and the Alexandra Township removal debate, 1935-45, African Historical Review
• 1998 Playing fields to battlefields: The development of Australian sporting manhood in its imperial context, Journal of Australian Studies
• 1998 Sport, politics and power: rugby, the Broederbond and the National Party during apartheid in South Africa, Sport History Review
• 1997 Trying to reach home: baseball, nostalgia and masculine identity in contemporary American culture, Sporting Traditions
• 1997 Citizens, cities and sports teams, Policy Options
• 1997 Sporting manhood in Australia: Test cricket, rugby football, and the imperial connection, 1878-1918, Sport History Review
• 1997 Muscular Islam and 'Coloured' rugby in Cape Town, South Africa, International Journal of the History of Sport
• 1997 Us and them: Australian professional sport and resistance to North American ownership and marketing models, Sport Marketing Quarterly
• 1997 Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa, Leicester University Press
• 1996 Socio-Cultural Foundations of Human Movement, Macmillan
• 1996 A 'fair go' for the fans?: super leagues, sports ownership and fans in Australia, Social Alternatives
• 1996 Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity, Frank Cass (now Routledge)
• 1996 Professional sport, nostalgia, community and nation in Canada, AVANTE
• 1996 A history of netball: Creating a female sporting culture 1902-1990s, Journal of Physical Education New Zealand
• 1996 'A besieged tribe': Nostalgia, white cultural identity and the role of rugby in a changing South Africa, International Review for the Sociology of Sport
• 1996 Writing and reading American football: Culture, identity and sports studies, Sporting Traditions
• 1995 From private to public: Historical and social factors in the development of women's sport in Australia and New Zealand, European Physical Education Review
• 1995 Sport, Power and Society in New Zealand, Australian Society for Sports History
• 1994 'A woman's game': The development of netball and a female sporting culture in New Zealand 1906-70, International Journal of the History of Sport
• 1993 'Like fleas on a dog': New Zealand and emerging protest against South African sport, 1965-74, Sporting Traditions
• 1992 Sport and the image of colonial manhood in the British mind: British physical deterioration debates and colonial sporting tours, 1878-1906, Canadian Journal of the History of Sport
• 1991 Sport, manhood and empire: British responses to the New Zealand rugby tour of 1905, International Journal of the History of Sport
• 1990 Myth and reality: Reflections on rugby and New Zealand, Sporting Traditions

• 2015 Assessing the Value of Premier League Connections for 3G Pitch Facilities Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Football Foundation
• 2015 Lifestyle Sports Networking Grant Role: Co-Chief Investigator Funding Source: Economic and Social Research Council
• 2015 Hastings Castle Heritage and Tourism Project Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Hastings Borough Council
• 2003 Amateurism in Sport Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Carnegie Foundation
• 1997 Arenas of Memory: Fans, Identity, Professional Sports and Global Capital in Australia, Canada, the USA and England (3 year grant) Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 1996 Sport, Culture and Nostalgia in the Shaping and Re-shaping of White Minority Identities in southern Africa Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council

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