Mary McDonald 

ADVANCE Professor, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts 

Mary G. McDonald (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is the Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society in the School of History and Sociology. She is also the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts ADVANCE Professor working with the other five ADVANCE professors representing each college to enhance the status of women and minority faculty on campus while also advising Institute leadership on policy and structure. A past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Professor McDonald has published more than 60 articles and book chapters and co-edited Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation, a foundational work in the field which earned a Choice award as a top academic title. Dr. McDonald has also co-edited two additional anthologies, Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production with Jennifer Sterling (Palgrave, 2020) and Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions with Matt Ventresca (Routledge, 2020). Her research focuses on American culture and sport including issues of inequality as related to gender, race, class, and sexuality. As the Homer C. Rice Chair, she directs the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts initiative in Sports, Society, and Technology (SST) which includes an academic minor that focuses on the critical, interdisciplinary study of sport as an important cultural institution.