Brian Avery

Senior Lecturer
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Event, tourism, and attraction management
• Event, tourism, and attraction risk and safety management
• Event, tourism, and attraction regulations, standards, and practices
• Event design and execution
• Amusement ride and device safety

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Dr. Yonghwan Chang

Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Sport Consumer Psychology
• Quantitative Sport Marketing

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Dr. Dan Connaughton

Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

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Dr. Jessica Francis

Instructional Assistant Professor, Internship Coordinator, Director of Engaged Learning & Outreach
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Athlete/coach identity and development
• Collegiate athletics

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Dr. Molly Harry

Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• The relationship between the NCAA, institutions, and athletic departments
• Ways the NCAA, institutions, and athletic departments can improve athletes’ developmental opportunities and experiences
• Athletes' NIL rights
• Future athlete-employee status
• New/reformed models of college athletics
• Title IX and gender/gender identity equity

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Dr. Jasamine Hill

Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Sport employee growth
• Organizational performance
• Psychological Safety

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Dr. Gidon Jakar

Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management

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Dr. Kyriaki Kaplanidou

Professor, Graduate Coordinator
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

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Dr. Yong Jae Ko

Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Consumer behavior research focused on socio-psychological variables that influence sport consumption behavior
• Service marketing research focused on consumers’ quality and value perceptions toward a variety of sport services
• Sponsorship and sport branding

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Dr. Christopher McLeod

Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Labor Studies
• Athlete Development
• Sports Leagues
• Market Entry
• Sport Ecology

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Dr. Scott Nestler

Professor of Practice

Department of Sport Management 

Primary fields of interest:

• Sport Analytics
• Performance Analytics
• Business Analytics 

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Dr. Emily Plunkett

Instructional Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Holistic athlete development and sport career transitions
• Career exploration, development, and readiness
• Program development, evaluation, and assessment

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Dr. Alyssa Tavormina

Instructional Associate Professor, Director of the Online Sport Management Program
Department of Sport Management,
Online Sport Management Master’s Program

Primary fields of interest:

• Sport Branding (e.g., sport brand love)
• Sport Consumer Behavior ( e.g., factors that affect consumers’ decisions to attend games)

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Dr. Christine Wegner

Instructional Associate Professor, Director of the Institute for Coaching Excellence
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Organizational and Social Identities
• Sport for Social Change

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Dr. Cynthia Willming

Instructional Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Sport Management

Primary fields of interest:

• Event Management
• Perceived Racial Discrimination and Leisure Travel
• Race and Leisure Travel

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