John Nauright studied in Canada, the USA, and the United Kingdom, receiving his Ph.D. from Queen's University in 1992. He has taught at universities in Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, Scotland, and the USA prior to coming to George Mason. He is Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Exercise, Fitness, and Health Promotion. He is also currently Visiting Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Lincoln in England.

Dr. Nauright's book publications include the widely acclaimed Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity; Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa; Rugby and the South African Nation; The Political Economy of Sport; and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Sports History among others. He is widely published in academic journals in sports marketing, sports history, and the sociology of sport; in tourism and in South African history. He is former founding editor of Football Studies and former editor of International Sports Studies. He serves on numerous journal editorial boards and reviews papers for many other journals in a variety of academic fields. He has served on Faculty Senate at two universities; is a former Director of the Dundee Ice Arena in Scotland; and has chaired university ethics/compliance and athletics committees. He has guest lectured at many universities in Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA and has been an invited keynote speaker at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and South Korea. In 2001 he was named the Ramsey Scholar at the University of Georgia.

• School of Recreation, Health and Tourism
• College of Education and Human Development
• Sport Management

• Special Topics in Sport Management (SPMT - 480)
• Global Perspectives in Sport (SPMT - 440)