John Nauright

Experience

• 2009–present
  Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
• 2014–present
  Visiting Professor of Sport Management, University of Ghana
• 2013–present
  Professor of Sport and Leisure Management, University of Brighton
• 2024–present
  Professor, School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University
• 2021–2024
  Dean of Business, Mount St. Mary's University
• 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

Education

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

Publications

• 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

Grants and Contracts

• 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