Joshua Newman

Dr. Joshua I. Newman is the Dean of the School of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Kansas, where he is also a Professor of Physical Culture in the Department of Health, Sport, and Exercise Science. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and Past-President and Research Fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). Prior to joining KU, he served as the Associate Dean for Research and Sara Lavinia de Keni Endowed Professor in the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at Florida State University, where he was also a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Sport Management.

Dr. Newman has published over 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, two refereed books as author, three edited books, 12 refereed review articles, five non-refereed technical reports, and 150 published conference abstracts or proceedings. His edited book (with Holly Thorpe and David Andrews), Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body (Rutgers, 2020), was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. His previous book Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation (with Michael Giardina, Palgrave, 2011) was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and NASSS's Outstanding Book of the Year in 2012. His research has been featured in interviews for The Washington Post, TIME magazine, Buzzfeed, and the Associated Press.

As Associate Dean for Research at Florida State, Dr. Newman led a research enterprise supporting 36 scientific laboratories and three K-12 laboratory schools. Under his leadership, the College grew its annual research expenditures to over $80 million. He served on multiple President's Task Forces and as Co-Chair of the Council of Associate Deans for Research. From 2012 to 2021, he also served as the Founding Director of FSU's Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development, and he has been the Principal Investigator (PI), Program Director, or Co-PI on more than a dozen program, training, and research grants totaling over $14 million.

Dr. Newman has been a reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and currently serves on the editorial boards of Communication & Sport, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Global Sport Management.

Prior to joining Florida State in 2011, Dr. Newman was a Lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand (2009-2011) and an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator at Towson University (2005-2008). He earned his B.S. in Education from the University of Memphis in 1999, his M.S. from Memphis in 2001, and Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland in 2005.