Esherick, Craig
Mr. Craig R. Esherick
JD, Georgetown University
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Center for Sport Management
Academic Program Coordinator, Sport Management
Sport and Recreation Studies
Craig wrote his first textbook, Media Relations in Sports, with Brad Schultz (Ole Miss) and Phil Caskey (WVU). This book was published in the summer of 2010. Craig’s second textbook was published in February of 2013, Fundamentals of Sport Management, which he co-wrote with Dr. Robert E. Baker (GMU). Two more editions of Media Relations in Sport were published in 2014 and 2020; Craig was the editor, along with a writer of four chapters of the 2020 edition. Esherick was the lead editor for Case Studies in Sport Diplomacy which was published in 2017. A book titled Sport for Development and Peace (with Robert E. and Pam Baker), published in 2022, was edited by Craig and he also wrote a chapter on how for-profit sport organizations engage in this activity
Professor Esherick has had several encyclopedia entries, book reviews, journal articles and a chapter published in nine different works; History of Sport Encyclopedia, Sports Management and Marketing Encyclopedia, Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, History and Sport, Journal of Sport for Development, International Journal in Sport Management and Marketing, H Diplo online journal, Leadership in Sport and Cultures of Peace (Sports Based Peace Initiatives). Esherick serves on several Arlington and Fairfax County boards and committees. He worked with the US Department of State on a multi-million dollar sport visitor’s cooperative grant that spanned seven years and brought 90 groups to Mason and the US from all over the world. Professor Esherick has served as a State Department sport envoy to the countries of Azerbaijan and Mauritania. He also provides expert commentary for news outlets, television and radio during college basketball season, primarily for local and regional sport networks.
