Position
- Professor of Philosophy, The University of Central Missouri (USA)
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
- Expert Advisor, Legatum Institute
Contact
Research interests
- Sport Studies (Boxing, Violence, Ethics)
- Urban Studies (Street Cultures, Structural Violence, Urbanization)
- Social Theory (Social Capital, Inequality, Globalization)
Ongoing research project
- Ethics and Culture in Combat Sport
Selected publications
Books
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022)
Urban Social Capital: Civil Society and City Life (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012)
Book Chapters & Journal Articles
Violence and Constraints in Combat Sport, in The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagon, eds. J. Holt and M. Ramsay (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021): 43-52
Between Rounds: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Sixty Seconds, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 47.3 (2020): 438-450
Sport, Trust, and Social Capital, Comparative Sociology 17.3-4 (2018): 386-405
Teamwork as Reflexive Social Cooperation, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 42.1 (2015): 43-49
‘Wir sind hier doch nich’ im Ghetto’: Über urbanes Leben und Boxgyms in den USA, Berliner Debatte Initial 24.3 (2013): 138-150
Boxing: The Sweet Science of Constraints, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 34.1 (2007): 26-38 [Reprinted in Philosophy of Sport: Critical Concepts in Sport Studies, eds. R. Kretchmar and P. Hopsicker (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016)]
Webinars
Sport and Social Capital? (Institute for Social Capital)
At idrottsforum.org
Between rounds: the aesthetics and ethics of sixty seconds | A Summary (feature, published 201027)
Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano Alan Scott Haft Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 2020 (book review, published 230227)
Published 2023-03-09
