Dawn M. Norwood, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Sport Management

Department

Kinesiology and Physical Education

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Exercise and Sport Sciences
  • M.S., Grambling State University, Sport Administration
  • B.A., Northern Illinois University, Corporate Communication

Research Interests

My research primarily focuses on issues of race and gender in sport and society. Pivoting away from my previous research on the minority swimming gap, I am shifting my research agenda to issues of social justice in sport – specifically Black athlete activism and the de-masculinization of athlete activism. I am primarily a qualitative methods researcher; however, I employ a mixed-methods approach from time to time. The following theories regularly inform my research: critical race theory (interest convergence and intersectionality), Black feminist thought, feminist theory, and womanist theory.

Recent Publications

Norwood, D. (2019). Race, class and gender: Intersectionality in sport. In Leeja Carter (Ed.), Feminist applied sport psychology: From theory to practice. Routledge.

Norwood, D.M. (2018). Conflicted: An auto ethnography on researching the minority swimming gap. International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 11(1), 4.

Courses Taught

  • KNPE 111 - Sport: Culture and Society
  • KNPE 393 - Social Aspects of Sport
  • LESM 461/561 - Contemporary Issues in College Athletics
  • LESM 543 - Research Seminar in Sport Management

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Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Anderson Hall 221
DeKalb, IL 60115
P: 815-753-1407
F: 815-753-1413
knpe@niu.edu

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