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Pat Griffin is an Emerita Professor in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She also the Director of It Takes A Team! Education Campaign for LGBT Issues in Sport. She leads classes and workshops on sexism, racism, ableism, heterosexism/homophobia, and other forms of social injustice in education. Her research and writing interests focus on heterosexism and homophobia in education, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender teachers and students, and heterosexism and homophobia in athletics, with a particular interest in women's sports. Dr. Griffin has written a book entitled, Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports, published by Human Kinetics, 1998. She is also co-editor of Teaching For Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers, Routledge, 1997. Dr. Griffin is an National Collegiate Athletic Association recognized speaker. For the past 24 years Dr. Griffin has led seminars on heterosexism/homophobia in sport at numerous colleges and universities as well as at coaches and athletic administrators� association meetings around the United States and Canada. She has served as an expert consultant on homophobia and heterosexism in sport for the Project to Eliminate Homophobia in Sport, Out For a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women�s Sports (an educational video), the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, the Massachusetts Department of Education Safe Schools Program, Playing Unfair: Media Images of Women in Sport (an educational video), and for numerous articles in the press, on television and in periodical publications. Dr. Griffin has appeared on ESPN Outside the Lines, HBO Real Sports, and ABC Sports as an expert commentator on LGBT issues in athletics. Dr. Griffin played basketball and field hockey at the University of Maryland and coached high school basketball and field hockey in Silver Spring, Maryland. She also coached swimming at the University of Massachusetts. She was a member of the U.S. Field Hockey squad in 1971. She won a bronze medal in the triathlon at Gay Games IV in 1994 and a gold medal in the hammer throw at Gay Games V in 1998. She has had short stories and first person accounts selected for publication in Sportdykes: Stories from on and Off the Field, Tomboys: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do, A Whole Other Ball Game: Women�s Literature on Women�s Sport, Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sports. Roger Abrams Legal Issues in Sport Abrams is the Richardson Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law. The former dean of the law schools at Northeastern, Rutgers and Nova Universities, Professor Abrams has taught Sports Law since 1985 and is the author of four books on baseball, covering issues of sports economics, law, social history, and game theory. Professor Abrams has served as a Major League Baseball salary arbitrator since 1986, and has set the salaries for baseball players such as Johnny Damon, Edgar Renteria and Ron Darling. Professor Abrams first worked with the Center for the Study of Sport in Society in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the First World Series, which took place at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, now part of the Northeastern campus. Eric Anderson Gender Segregation in Sport Anderson is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Coach Education & Sports Development Program within the Department of Education at the University of Bath in England. He has a bachelor's degree in health science, a bachelor's in physical education, a master's in sport psychology, a master's in sociology, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of California Irvine. He is well known for his dynamic lecturing on issues pertaining to sport, gender, sexuality and homophobia. He particularly examines the changing nature of heterosexual masculinity in response to decreasing cultural homophobia, and is the foremost researcher in understanding the relationship between gay male athletes and sport. Dr. Anderson has authored several books and peer-reviewed journal publications on the subject, including In the Game: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity, where he examines openly gay athletes at all levels of organized sport. He has also penned an autobiography titled Trailblazing: America�s First Openly Gay High School Coach. Jessica Blom-Hoffman Nutrition and Physical Activity Jessica Blom-Hoffman has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology at Northeastern University since 2002. Her career focus involves school-based efforts to prevent childhood obesity. Her research has centered on working with children in schools and their families to promote increased fruit and vegetable consumption. She received her BA in Psychology from Hamilton College, her MEd in Human Development from Lehigh University and her PhD in School Psychology from Lehigh University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology at the Children�s Hospital of Philadelphia. Jennifer Bruening Student-Athletes and Community Service Bruening earned her B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame (1992), her M.A. in English from Morehead State University (1994), and her PhD from The Ohio State University (2000). Bruening spent four years as collegiate student-athlete playing volleyball at the University of Notre Dame. She spent eight years as an athletic administrator and volleyball coach at Kenyon College in Ohio, including two years as athletic director. She has been an assistant professor of Sport Management and Sociology at the University of Connecticut since January of 2002 and serves as the Director of the Laboratory for Sport Management and Sociology. Dr. Bruening�s research line has focused primarily on the barriers and supports for women and minorities in sport. Dr. Bruening is also the program founder and director for Husky Sport receiving funding from the USDA and the City of Hartford to conduct research with adolescent African American females through a program that provides mentors as program planners, emphasizes exposure and access to sport, and advocate healthy lifestyles. Ted Fay Deconstructing Constructed Play Ted Fay is a Professor in the Department of Sport Management at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland. Fay holds a Ph.D. in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts, a M.P.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Oregon, and a B.A. in Government from St. Lawrence University. He has many years of experience as a coach, program director, marketing director, strategic consultant and national and world championships director in Olympic and Paralympic sports including cross-country ski racing, biathlon, ice hockey and team handball. Mary Hums Sport as a Human Right Hums 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. Prior 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. Peter Kaufman Athletes & Activism Kaufman is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is working on a research project that examines athletes� views on a variety of social issues. The work revolves around three questions: (1) Who are some of the athletes that are engaging in social/political activism and what is their cause? (2) What are the social motivators that have led these athletes to take a political and social stand. By social motivators I am referring to the structural problems that these athletes have identified as being problematic. (3) What type of reaction (from teammates, coaches, administrators, fans, friends, etc.) have these athletes experienced because of their actions? Alan Klein The Intersection of Academics & AthleticsKlein is professor of sociology and anthropology, Northeastern University. He is author of Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream, published by Yale University Press; and Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos. Klein�s current research includes the intersection of academics & athletics. His work also explores and addresses diversity in sport and masculinity in sport. David Legg Defining An Inclusive Olympic Movement David Legg B.P.E. (McMaster), M.H.K. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Alberta) has spent the past fifteen years actively involved as an educator, researcher and volunteer in sport management and adapted physical activity. At Mount Royal College, David coordinates the Bachelor of Applied Business and Entrepreneurship - Sport and Recreation Applied Degree and was the College Research Officer for four years. In 2004 David was a visiting professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. David has published over 20 articles and made over 30 professional presentations. As a volunteer David is vice President and Director of Finance for the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Technical Officer for the America's Paralympic Committee. Emmett Price Rhythm and Flow: The Power of Sport & Music Emmett G. Price III, a well regarded musician, educator and consultant, actively researches, lectures and writes about Black Music of the United States (African American Music) with a focus on social, political, economic, cultural and religious analysis. He is a noted print and broadcast media expert on African American Music, Hip Hop Culture, Youth Culture, the Generational Divide, Black Popular Culture, Popular Music, Music of the Black Church and Church Music Ministry. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Emmett received a B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and both M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from the University of Pittsburgh. Currently Dr. Price is an assistant professor of music and African American studies at Northeastern University. During the 2004-2005 academic year he was a research fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Eli A. Wolff Conference Organizer Wolff is the Manager of Research and Advocacy at the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University. Wolff coordinates Sport in Society�s Research Fellows Program. Wolff works to support and enhance student and faculty research and advocacy initiatives at local, national and international levels. Wolff has encouraged the application of the scholar-activist methodology with respect to sport and social issues. Wolff co-founded and contributes to Sport in Society�s Disability in Sport, Athletes for Human Rights, and Rhythm & Flow research initiatives. Wolff was a coordinator and lecturer at the International Olympic Academy from 2002-2006, and continues to engage as an ambassador of Olympism and Olympic education. Wolff is a contributor to the United Nations International Working Group on Sport for Development and Peace, and also active to engage with the sport and social change movement. Wolff facilitates workshops, delivers talks, and provides consultations in the area of sport and human rights. From 2003-2006, Wolff was a driving force behind the drafting of the sport and recreation section for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2000, Wolff organized a brief for the Supreme Court, on behalf of national disability sport organizations, in support of Casey Martin for his case against the PGA. In 2001, Wolff received the first Casey Martin Award, given by Nike, recognizing an individual making a difference for people with disabilities in sports. Wolff was a member of the US National Soccer Team from 1995 - 2004, and a member of the US Olympic Team in the 1996 and 2004 Paralympic Games. He earned a Bachelor's of Arts with honors in Sociology and Organizational Management from Brown University. Summit Home |