David L. Andrews
Dr. David L. Andrews is a Professor within the Physical Cultural Studies research group in the Department of Kinesiology. He is also an affiliate faculty member within the Department of American Studies and the Department of Sociology. He is currently working on a book titled "The Great Moving Right Show: Sport, Political Assemblages, and the Trump Awakening" (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming).
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Core FacultyPhysical Cultural Studies; Sociology of Sport; Cultural Studies; Sport and Social/Cultural Theory; Sport and Politics
Dr. David L. Andrews is a Professor within the Physical Cultural Studies research group in the Department of Kinesiology. He is also an affiliate faculty member within the Department of American Studies and the Department of Sociology.
Born and raised in South-East London, England, Dr. Andrews was educated at the College of St. Mark & St. John (B.Ed[Hons]), England and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.S. and Ph.D.). Prior to his arrival at the University of Maryland in 2001, he taught at the University of Memphis.
Dr. Andrews' research interests center on contextualizing sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic and technological forces shaping contemporary society.
His latest book is titled "Making Sport Great Again?: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture" (Palgrave, 2019). Previous books include: "Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (Peter Lang, 2006); Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture" (edited with Michael Silk, Temple University Press, 2012); "The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies" (edited with Michael Silk and Holly Thorpe, Routledge, 2017); and, "Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecology" (edited with Joshua I. Newman, and Holly Thorpe, Rutgers University Press, 2020).
He is currently working on a book titled "The Great Moving Right Show: Sport, Political Assemblages, and the Trump Awakening" (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming).
B.Ed (Hons.) Upper second (2:1), Physical Education and History, 1985
College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, England
MS, Sociology of Sport, Department of Kinesiology, 1991
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
PhD, Sociology of Sport, Department of Kinesiology, 1993
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
KNES 287 Sport in American Society
KNES 289Y The [In]active City: The Physical Cultures of Metropolitan Baltimore
KNES 485 Sport and Globalization
KNES 689B Physical Cultural Studies
KNES 614 Cultural Studies and Physical Culture
KNES 615 Theories of Physical Culture
KNES 789P PCS Research and Writing Seminar
Sport, Physical Culture and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies, selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2020.
Inducted as a Research Fellow in the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2017
Inducted as a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK) #461, 2006
Doris W. Sands Award for Teaching Excellence. College of Health and Human Performance, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005
Andrews, D.L. (2019). Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Andrews, D.L., & Ritzer, G. (2018). Sport and Prosumption. Journal of Consumer Culture. 18 (2), 356-373
Andrews, D.L., & Silk, M.L. (2018). Neoliberalism and sport: An Affective-Ideological Articulation. Journal of Popular Culture, 51, (2), 511-533.
Andrews, D.L., & Carrington, B. (in press: 2021). Blue Collar Billionaire: Trumpism, Populism and Uber-Sport. In A. Tomlinson and B. Clift (Eds.). Populism and the Sport and Leisure Spectacle. London: Routledge/British Sociological Association.
Andrews, D.L., Cork, S., & Miller, R. (2017). The militarization of sport science. In M.L. Butterworth (Ed.). Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Brice, J., & Andrews, D.L. (2019). SheBelieves, but does she? Complicating the Representation of the postfeminist, neoliberal woman. Leisure Sciences. 41 (1-2), 127-144.
Bustad, J, & Andrews, D.L., (2020). Remaking Recreation: Urban Neoliberalization and Public Recreation Policy in Baltimore. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning.
Clevenger, S. M., & Andrews, D.L. (2017). ‘A Peaceful Path to’ Healthy Bodies: The Biopolitics of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City. Urban Planning, 2(4), 5-9.
King-White, R., & Andrews, D.L. (in press: 2021). The Death of Jordan McNair: The Inevitability of the Avoidable Life-Threatening Injury. In S. Wagg, & A. Pollock (eds.). The Palgrave handbook of sport, politics and injury. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mower, R., Bustad, J., & Andrews, D.L. (2018). Confronting America: Black Commercial Aesthetics, Athlete Activism, and the Nation Reconsidered. In P. Dolan & J. Connolly (Eds). Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict. London: Routledge.