Ronald L. Mower
Ron Mower is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research is concerned with critical examinations of social injustice within sport, physical culture, and society with publications in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Leisure Sciences, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Sport, Education, and Society. As the creator and Director of the Action Assemblage for Justice, Equity, and Peace (AAJEP), Ron is actively engaged in student organizing and solidarity building, self-reflexive dialogic learning communities, and boundary crossing research and service-learning collaborations for the public good.
Departments/Units
Areas of Interest
Core FacultySocial Justice and Sport Activism; Racial and Ethnic Studies in Sport and Society; Qualitative Participatory Ethnography; Sport for Development and Peace; Critical Pedagogy
PhD, Kinesiology, 2014
University of Maryland, College Park
MA, Sport Management, 2008
University of Memphis
BA, Kinesiology, 2006
University of Maryland, College Park
KNES186: Basketball
KNES225: Hoop Dreams: Black Masculinity & Sport
KNES287: Sport in American Society
KNES346: Sport for Development
KNES485: Sport & Globalization
KNES498M: Social Justice in Kinesiology
KNES612: Qualitative Research Methods
Global Public Health Classrooms Grant, School of Public Health and Global Learning Initiative (GLI), University of Maryland, 2023-2024
SPH SEED Grant Award, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 2022-2023
Lt. Richard Collins III Courage Against Hate Award, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 2021-2022
TLTC Teaching Innovation Grant for Online course development during Covid-19. Teaching & Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), University of Maryland, College Park, 2020
SUNY Research Development Grant, SUNY Research Foundation, 2016-2017
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, UMD Department of Kinesiology, 2013
F. Daniel Wagner Teaching Award, UMD Department of Kinesiology, 2012
Dr. James W. Longest Memorial Award for Social Science Research, University of Maryland, 2012
University of Maryland Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 2010
Lester M. Fraley Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Citizenship in the Community, University of Maryland, 2006
Mower, R. L., Stone, E., & Wallace, B. (2023). Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City. Leisure Sciences, 45(2), 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2022.2162637
Mower, R. L. (2023). On the subject of race and sport: Covid-19, Zoom, and the necessity of antiracist dialogic pedagogy (pp. 321-346). In D. L. Andrews, H. Thorpe, & J. Newman (Eds.,), Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages. Palgrave; Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14387-8
Mower, R. L., (2022). A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing. Sociology of Sport Journal, 40(2), 123-131. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2022-0003.
Mower, R., Bustad, J., & Andrews, D. (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. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series.
Bustad, J., & Mower, R. (2017). Welcome to the factory: College athletes and corporatized recruiting. In R. K. White (Ed.), Sport in the Neoliberal University. Rutgers University Press.
Mower, R. (2016). Sport in the global marketplace. In M. Nagel and R. Southall (Eds.), Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
Mower, R., Andrews, D. & Rick, O. (2014). Football and ‘ghettocentric’ logics: The NFL’s essentialist mobilization of black bodies. In Z. Furness and T. Oates (Eds.), The NFL: Critical/Cultural Perspectives. Temple University Press.
Andrews, D. L., & Mower, R. L. (2012). Specters of Jordan. Ethnic and Racial Studies, First published on March 26, 2012 (iFirst).
Clift, B. C., & Mower, R. L. (2011). Transitioning to an athletic subjectivity: First-semester experiences at a corporate (sporting) university. Sport, Education and Society, First published on June 9, 2011 (iFirst).
Andrews, D. L., Mower, R. L., & Silk, M. L. (2011). Ghettocentrism and the essentialized Black athlete. In D. Leonard (Ed.). Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Amis, J., Mower, R. L., & Silk, M. L. (2009). (Michael) Power, gendered subjectivities, and filmic representation: Brand strategy and Guinness’ Critical Assignment in Africa. In L. A. Wenner & S. J. Jackson (Eds.), Sport, beer, and gender: Promotional culture and contemporary social life. New York: Peter Lang.