On November 2-5 in Tampa Bay, FL, Mary Jo Kane, PhD, Tucker Center director and professor in the School of Kinesiology, Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, Tucker Center co-director and Kinesiology senior lecturer, and Anna Baeth, MS, Tucker Center research assistant, will give panel and paper presentations at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) 2016 Annual Meeting, themed “Publicly Engaged Sociology of Sport.”

Kane will serve as a panelist for “Public Sociology of Sport: Moralistic or Radical Approaches,” a panel with other sport sociologist luminaries. She will also present, along with LaVoi, “An Examination of Intercollegiate Athletic Directors’ Attributions Regarding the Declining Number of Female Coaches in Women’s Sports,” at a session on “Examinations of Women in Coaching and Administration in U.S. Collegiate Sport.”

In the same session, LaVoi will present “Let the Data Tell the Story: The Landscape of College Athletics for Women Coaches.”

In a “Sport and Deviance” session, Baeth will present “Embodying Neoliberal Ideals: (Cross)Fitness as a Production of Healthism, Consumption, and Deviance” with Jane Stangl (Smith College). Baeth will also present “Playing the Female Athlete: Elite Sportswomen’s Choices of Self-Representation in Autonomous Media Outlets” in the “Post‐Feminism & Social Media” session.