Nauright, John
PhD, Queens University, Ontario, Canada
Professor
George Mason University, Prince William Campus
Bull Run Hall 221
10900 University Blvd
MS 4E5
Manassas, VA 20110
Curriculum Vitae
Profile
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 Director of the Academy of International Sport. He is also Visiting Professor of Sports Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Dr. Nauright's book publications include the widely acclaimed Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity; Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa (2nd edition, 2010); Rugby and the South African Nation; The Political Economy of Sport; and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Sports History and The New Sport Management Reader 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. 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, and South Africa. In 1999 he was consultant for, and participated in, the BBC Wales series "The Union Game", a four part documentary series on the history of world rugby union football. In 2001 he was named the Ramsey Scholar at the University of Georgia.
Research Interests
Sport and International Development
Sport, Mega-Events and Legacies
Globalization and Sport
International Issues in Sport Management
Race and Sport
Gender and Sport
History of Golf
Sport in the English Speaking World
Tourism and Identities
Recent Publications
BOOKS:
Nauright, J. (2010). Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa. Second Edition. Morgantown: Fitness Information Technology.
Nauright, J. (2010). Global Sport Management. Morgantown: Fitness Information Technology.
Pope, S.W. & Nauright, J. (eds.) (2010). The Routledge Companion to Sports History London: Routledge.
Nauright, J. & Pope, S.W. (eds.) (2009). The New Sport Management Reader. Morgantown: Fitness Information Technology.
Nauright, J. & Schimmel, K. (eds.), (2005). The Political Economy of Sport. London: Palgrave Macmillan (International Political Economy Series).
Møller, V. & Nauright, J. (eds.), (2003). The Essence of Sport. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Nauright, J. & Ramfjord, J. (2010). Who owns England’s game? American professional sporting influences and foreign ownership in the Premier League. Soccer and Society, in press.
Strutner, M. & Nauright, J. (2009). Making soccer ‘Major League’ in the USA and beyond: Major League Soccer’s birth and expansion. Football Studies, 11(1).
Nauright, J. (2007). Rugby et identité nationale en Nouvelle-Zélande.STAPS: Revue internationale des sciences du sport et de l'éducation physiques, 78, 101-114.
Means, J. & Nauright, J. (2007). Going global: The NBA sets its sights on Africa. International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship, 9(1), 40-50.
Rickman, A. & Nauright, J. (2007). Globalization and the fitness industry: a case study of 24 Hour Fitness and its expansion into Asia, International Journal of Fitness. 3(2), 17-24.
Wheeler, K. & Nauright, J. (2006). A green game?:A global perspective on the environmental impact of golf. Sport in Society, 9(3), 427-443.
Nauright, J. (2006).From ‘Native Village’ to ‘Dark City’: population growth, class, politics and local administration in Alexandra Township, South Africa 1933-1943. Historia, 51(1), 87-116.
Nauright, J. (2005). Cornish miners and the Witwatersrand gold mines in South Africa 1886-1904. Cornish History (on-line journal). Available at: http://www.marjon.ac.uk/cornish-history/witwatersrand/index.htm.
Nauright, J. (2005)White man’s burden revisited: race, sport and reporting the Hansie Cronje cricket crisis in South Africa and beyond. Sport History Review. 35(1), 61-75.
Keeler, B. & Nauright, J. (2005).Team Yao: Yao Ming, the NBA, sporting goods and selling sport to China. American Journal of Chinese Studies, 12(2), 203-218.
Reith, S. & Nauright, J. (2005). Ethics, economics and tourism: Myanmar as a case study. Tourism Recreation Research. 30 (2), 81-85.
Topp, D. & Nauright, J. (2004). Sport,community, class and religion: Rugby league and cultural identity in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Sporting Traditions, 21(1), 53-65.
Nauright, J. (2004). ‘Global games: culture, political economy, and sport in the globalized world of the twenty-first century’. Third World Quarterly, 25(7), 1325-1336.
Nauright, J. & Magdalinski, T. (2003). ‘A hapless attempt at swimming: media representations of Eric Moussambani. Critical Arts: Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 17(1/2), 106-122.
Booth, D. & Nauright, J. (2003). Sport, race and embodiment in South Africa. Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, 1(1), 16-36.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
Nauright, J. (2010). The Ryder Cup, in D.Wiggins & R.P. Rodgers (eds.), Sporting Rivalries. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, in press.
Nauright, J. & Ramfjord, J. (2010). Who owns England’s game? American professional sporting influences and foreign ownership in the Premier League, in D.Hassan & S. Hamil (eds.), Who owns football?: the governance and management of the club game worldwide, in press, London: Routledge, 2008 (also published in Soccer and Society), in press.
Little, C. & Nauright, J. (2009). Sport, development and globalization: Perspectives from south-east Asia, in D.M. Nault (ed.), Developing Asia. Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press, 195-214.
Means, J. & Nauright, J. (2008). Sports development meets sports marketing in Africa: Basketball Without Borders and the NBA in Africa, in S. Chadwick & D. Arthur (eds.), Case studies in international sport marketing (pp. 372-388). London: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Nauright, J. (2005). The political economy of sport in the twenty-first century, in Nauright and Schimmel, The political economy of sport (pp. 208-214).
Magdalinski, T. & Nauright, J., (2004). The commercialization of the Olympics, in T. Slack, (ed.), The commercialization of sport (pp. 185-204). London: Routledge.
Nauright, J. (2003). Nostalgia, culture and modern sport, in V. Møller & J. Nauright (eds), The essence of sport (pp. 35-50). Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark.