Douglas Hartmann

Collaboration will focus on research presentations & publications in the areas of sport & human rights, and urban youth violence prevention through sport. Work will intersect with the AHR, MVP, PTW & UYS areas of the Center.

Douglas Hartmann is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Associate Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. Hartmann is the author of Race, Culture and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (2003, Chicago) and the co-author, along with Stephen Cornell, of Ethnicity and Race, Second Edition: Making Identities in the Changing World (2007, Pine Forge Press.) As a sport scholar, Hartmann has also written about Michael Jordan, Rush Limbaugh, the relationship between sports participation and deviance, and masculinity. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled �Midnight Basketball: Race and the Realities of Sports-Based Crime Prevention.� Hartmann received his B.A. in History and M. A. in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego in 1997.