Dr. Mary A. Hums
Senior Research Fellow
Mary A. Hums, Ph.D is a Professor in the Sport Administration Program at the University of Louisville. She holds a Ph.D. in Sport Management from Ohio State University, an M.A. in Athletic Administration as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa, and a B.B.A. in Management from the University of Notre Dame.
In addition to being a Past President of the Society for the Study of Legal Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity (SSLASPA � now Sport and Recreation Law Society � SRLA), she is an active member of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), the European Association of Sport Management (EASM), the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD), and the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE). Prior to coming to the University of Louisville, Hums served on the Sport Management faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, directed the Sport Management Program at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, and was Athletic Director at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, IN.
Mary worked as a volunteer for the 1996 Summer Paralympic Games in Atlanta and the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City. In 2004, she lived in Athens, Greece for five months, working both the Olympic (Softball) and Paralympic (Goalball) Games.
Hums, along with Lisa Pike Masteralexis and Carol Barr, co-edited the 2005 textbook (2nd edition) of Principles and Practice of Sport Management; co-authored the 2004 Governance and Policy in Sport Organizations, with Joanne MacLean, the 2004 Paralympic Sport: All Sports for All People with Takis Papakonstantopoulos, and the 2001 book Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals, with Matt Robinson, Brian Crow, and Dennis Phillips. Her other scholarly work includes contributions to The Journal of Sport Management, The Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, The Journal of Sport and Social Issues, The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Career Development, The Journal of the International Council of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, The International Journal of Sport Management, The Recreation Sports Journal, and The Women�s Sport and Physical Activity Journal, in addition to book chapters in Law for Recreation and Sport Managers; HIV/AIDS in Sports: Impacts, Issues and Challenge; and Women is Sport: Issues and Controversies.
Mary has made over 100 presentations to various scholarly associations both in the United States and abroad. Her main research interest is policy development in sport organizations, especially in regards to inclusion of people with disabilities, women, and racial/ethnic minorities into the management of sport. She is a Senior Research Fellow for the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, and a North American Society for Sport Management Research Fellow. In 2006, she was selected by the United States Olympic Committee to attend the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece.
She was a 1993 recipient of a Georgia Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Dance Research Award. In 1997 she was named Outstanding Teacher in the College of Food and Natural Resources while teaching at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and in 1999 the University of Louisville Disability Resource Center named her Instructor of the Year. In 2000 she received the NASPE Sport Management Council�s Outstanding Achievement Award, and in 2001 the University of Louisville Alumni Association presented her with the Red Apple Award for contributions to students� lives through teaching. In 2002 she received the Conference USA Award of Excellence for the University of Louisville. She is a 1996 inductee in the Indiana Softball Hall of Fame.
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