FALL/WINTER 2019 SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY Society for the Study of Social Problems INSIDE THIS NOTES FROM THE CHAIR ISSUE: Alicia Smith-Tran, PhD Texas Christian University Notes from the Chair - 1 Greetings! Annual Meeting 3 Recent Member News 4 I am honored to serve the division as chair for Member Spotlights 5 2019-21 and thank you for allowing me to serve Paper Competition 7 you and SSSP in this capacity. For those I have Social Media 8 yet to meet, I am an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, TX. One of my current research projects is on middle-class Black women who are recreational runners. I am also a medical sociologist, with a focus on illness narratives, and I also study the age-related experiences of middle-class Black Americans in the workplace. 1 SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY | FALL/WINTER 2019 Our division is currently one of the compiling this newsletter and bringing smallest in SSSP, so we are in need of it to life. Please feel free to email more members in order for the division Tiffany or myself with any ideas that to stay visible and viable. If you have not you have, or items that you would like already, please take a minute this week included in the next issue. We hope that to think of a colleague you can tell about social media and the newsletters will the division, or a graduate student you become foundational in our ability to can sponsor. We now have a Twitter stay connected and get our work out account, so we encourage you to follow into the world. us there and re-tweet our posts. If you do not already, please follow us on It is an exciting time to be involved with Facebook as well. The links to our work on sport, leisure, and the body. I Facebook and Twitter are on the last enjoyed getting to meet some of you page of this newsletter. We are hopeful engaged in these areas of research at that with a larger online presence, we the annual meeting in New York, and can grow the division and make clear look forward to meeting more of you in that it is needed in SSSP. San Francisco next August. There is so much potential for research with As we continue to grow and re-define our implications for social outcomes both division, I want to reiterate the scope of within and beyond the stated scope of our focus. While sociology of sport has our division. historically been an emphasis, those that study and teach about issues related to All the best, leisure and the body are just as important. At our meeting next August, Alicia Smith-Tran we will have a session on the intersection Pronouns: she/her/hers of sport, leisure, and the body in order to Email: a.smithtran@tcu.edu explore how all three complement each Twitter: @aliciasmithtran other and are needed interdependently in order to have a full understanding of each of them singularly. I want to thank Kaitlin Pericak, who has volunteered to help manage our social media presence, including taking the reigns of our Twitter account. In addition, I give many, many thanks to Tiffany Hang, who has done a phenomenal job 2 DIVISION SESSIONS FOR 2020 ANNUAL MEETING NEXT YEAR'S SESSIONS: Our division is sponsoring/co-sponsoring 10 sessions at next year's meeting. Please start thinking about which sessions may be a good fit for you! SOLE-SPONSORED SESSIONS: 1) "When Sport Brings Hope" 2) "Intersections of Sport, Leisure, and the Body" 3) "Hobbies for Profit" CO-SPONSORED SESSIONS: 1) "The Interplay of Health and Sport" (co-sponsored by Health, Health Policy & Health Services) 2)"Tourism and the Environment" (co-sponsored by Environment and Technology) 3) "Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Within and Beyond #MeToo" (co- sponsored by Gender and Crime & Juvenile Delinquency) 4) "Demystifying Drug Use: Pleasure, Benefit, Maximization and Fun" (co- sponsored by Drinking and Drugs) 5) "Family, Children, and Sports" (co-sponsored by Family) 6) "The Physical Demands of Managing Poverty" (co-sponsored by Poverty, Class, and Inequality) 7) "Disability, Sport, Gaming and Technology" (co-sponsored by Disability) San Francisco, California AUGUST 7-9TH 3 RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS: MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS a. Haltom, Trenton M. 2019. “Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Trenton Haltom Twirlers’ Embodied Resistance University of Nebraska in a Feminized Terrain.” Pp. 200-2012 in Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, MY CURRENT POSITION: Tensions, and Transformations PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology edited by C. Bobel and S. Kwan. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. (Peer COURSES THAT I CURRENTLY TEACH Reviewed) I currently teach Sociology of Sport at University of Nebraska-Lincoln b. Kwan, Samantha, and Trenton M. Haltom. 2019. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ME: “Mixed Methods in Body and My interest in studying and teaching sociology of Embodiment Research.” Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of sport comes from my experience as a the Body and Embodiment, competitive baton twirler. I conducted Natalie Boero and Katherine qualitative interviews with 30 male baton Mason (Eds). (Invited Chapter) twirlers around the country for my Master's DOI: thesis at the University of Houston. I continue 10.1093/oxfordhb/97801908424 to publish on this work. After completing my 75.013.5 competitive career as a member of Team USA in 2015, I became a judge with the National Baton c. Kwan, Samantha, and Twirling Association and sit on the marketing Trenton M. Haltom. committee for the International Baton Twirling Forthcoming 2019. “Gender & Bodies.” In Oxford Federation. Bibliographies Online: Sociology, Lynette Spillman (Ed). New York: Oxford University Press. (Peer Reviewed) d. McGinnis, Lee P., James W. Gentry, and Trenton M. Haltom. 2019. “Gender, Millennials, and Leisure Constraints: Exploring Golf’s Participation Decline.” Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure & Events. DOI: 10.1080/19407963.2019.166242 7 4 RECENT MEMBER NEWS GRADUATE STUDENT KAITLIN PERICAK AWARDED RESEARCH GRANT Kaitlin Pericak, PhD Candidate University of Miami In September 2019, the NCAA Research Committee selected five research proposals for the 2019 cycle of the NCAA Graduate Student Research Grant Program. The program aims to stimulate research on college sports by providing financial support to graduate students' work in social and behavioral science fields. These students' work will help inform NCAA member schools and the public on important topics by introducing new studies to the fields. Graduate students are awarded one-time grants set at a maximum of $7,500. The division's own Kaitlin Pericak received a grant on her research, "The thrill of victory, the agony of injury: Social support among injured college athletes." Through the use of a quantitative survey, her study examines the relationship between injury among Division I collegiate athletes and their socio-emotional responses (i.e., perceived stress, anxiety, and depression). Further, this study examines whether social support services in the form of athletic trainers, sport nutritionists, physical therapists, sport psychologists, team physicians, and other sports medicine staff mediate these socio-emotional responses. Expected findings of this study are that traditional sources of social support for injury (e.g., sports medicine staff) housed in athletic training centers are not the most utilized, compared to non-traditional sources of social support. https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/research-grants-awarded-5-graduate-students 5 MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS Jeffrey Sacha, PhD American River College MY CURRENT POSITION: I am in my second year as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at American River College -- a large community college in Sacramento, CA. RESEARCH I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON: My research trajectory changed dramatically upon starting my job at ARC. The 5-5 teaching load doesn't leave much room for research. That said, I include sociology of sport and body-centered research methodology into my courses. For me, sport was one of the first social institutions where it all seemed to click; concepts and theories from my previous sociology classes became tools that I could use to study this "thing" I knew so intimately as an athlete and fan. I try to provide that same "AH-HA" moment for my students (particularly my student athletes) by building sport and body related units into all my classes COURSES THAT I CURRENTLY TEACH Introduction to Sociology Social Problems Sociological Research Methods INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ME: iI was born and raised in Seattle, WA and boxed competitively for about 10 years. While in graduate school at USC, I built and ran a free community boxing gym in Pico-Union, a neighborhood north of USC's main campus near downtown Los Angeles. 6 All submitting authors 2020 GRADUATE STUDENT are required to submit PAPER COMPETITION their papers through the annual meeting Call for The Sport, Leisure, and the Body Division Papers process as a announces its 2020 Graduate Student Paper condition for Competition. Papers may be empirical and/or consideration for the theoretical, and may be on any aspect of sport, award. leisure, and/or the body, broadly construed. The winner will receive a cash award of $200, a plaque of recognition, student membership in In addition, please SSSP for 2020, and complimentary registration submit your paper for the 2020 annual meeting. Two honorable electronically as a mentions will be awarded $50 each. Microsoft Word or PDF file to Alicia Smith-Tran at a.smithtran@tcu.edu To be eligible, a paper must meet the following criteria: 1) The applicant must be a graduate student at Paper submission must the time of the SSSP annual meeting in San be dated (via electronic Francisco from August 7-9, 2020; time/date stamp) on or 2) The applicant must be the first (lead) author before 1/31/20. on the paper; 3) The paper must not be co-authored with a faculty member or a colleague who is not a . student; 4) The paper must not have been submitted to or accepted for publication (papers that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible); 5) The paper must not exceed 30 pages including notes, references, and tables; 6) The paper must be typed using 12-point font in either Times New Roman or Courier; 7) Student papers may only be submitted to one of the SSSP division award competitions. 7 SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY | FALL/WINTER 2019 MESSAGE FROM THE CONNECT WITH US: EDITOR: Let us know what you're Tiffany Hang working on! Please send Texas Christian University information on recent articles, reports, Hello! presentations, etc to Tiffany Hang, tiffany.hang@tcu.edu My name is Tiffany Hang and I am a current junior Biology and Sociology student at Click me! Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. I am currently working on writing an autoethnography about my personal experiences with chronic illness in relation to the life course and aging. Since beginning my studies at TCU, I have found a passion and excitement for sociology. As the newsletter editor for the division of Sport, Leisure and the Body for this term I am excited and eager to learn about this specific subfields within Sociology. Please do not hesitate to to send me any material for the newsletter. Thank you all for this great opportunity! Best, Tiffany Hang tiffany.hang@tcu.edu 8