Graduate Student Research Profile

Adam Beissel

Area of Study:
PhD: Sport and Physical Culture

Supervisors:
Steve Jackson, Joshua Newman (Florida State University)

Thesis Title
Sons of Samoa: Sons of Samoa: Football, Postcolonial Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Athletic Labor Markets. (working title)

Education
2007-2009 Towson University/University of Baltimore, M.B.A. (Business Administration with concentration in Sport Management

2003-2007 Towson University, B.S. (Sport Management with minor in Business Administration)

Publications

Beissel, A.S. & Newman J.I. (forthcoming, mid-2012). The Global Samoan: Cosmopolitan Identity and Flexible Citizenship of NFL athlete-celebrity Troy Polamalu. Sport and Society Journal - Special Issue on Citizenship.

Beissel, A.S (2011). Book Review. Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice]. By Nagel, M. & Southall, R. (Eds.). (2010). Kendall Hunt Publishing: IA. For Sport Management Review, 14: 465-466

Beissel, A.S., Newman, J.I., & Giardina, M.D. (2011). NASCAR Nation as/in Petrol Empire. In Newman, J.I. & Giardina, M.D. (2011). Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism. New York: PalgraveMacMillan.

Newman, J.I., Giardina, M.D. & Beissel, A.S. (2011). ‘Selling Out’ NASCAR Nation. In Newman, J.I., & Giardina, M.D. (2011). Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism. New York: PalgraveMacMillan.

Jackson, S.J., Sam, M., Gee, S., Scherer, J., & Beissel, A.S. (2011, in press). Sport Mega-Events Between the Global & The Local: Lessons from the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In Ramón Llopis-Goig (Ed.) Sport Mega-events.

Newman, J. I., & Beissel, A. S. (2009). The limits to ‘NASCAR Nation’: Sport and the 'recovery movement' in disjunctural times. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26(4), 517-539.

Braunstein, J. R., Newman, J. I., & Beissel, A. S. (2008). Inside BAM Racing: Rethinking the sponsorship match-up process in ‘America’s fastest-growing sport’. International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship, 9(3), 219-233.

Presentations

Beissel, A.S. (Forthcoming, 2012). The Problem with Numbers: Sport, Management, and Athletic Labor Metrics. Paper presented in panel session (Re)Thinking Sport Management, How it is Practices, How We Teach it, and How Students Use it, North American Society of Sport Management Annual Conference 2011, Seattle, Washington, United States, May.

Beissel, A.S. (2011). Reducing the Samoan Body: Articulating Scientific Racism and Neoliberal Sport. Paper presented at the International Sociology of Sport World Congress 2011, Havana, Cuba, July.

Beissel, A.S. (2011). Postcards from Tutuila: Reflections of the Ethnographic Self. Paper presented at the Third Annual Postgraduate Student Research Symposium, School of Physical Education, University of Otago, New Zealand, November.

Beissel, A.S. (2009). Ethnographic Tales from ‘NASCAR Nation’. Presentation given for Research Design and Analysis Course, School of Physical Education, University of Otago, New Zealand, October.

Beissel, A. S. (2009). Brought to you by Waitangi TV: The cultural politics of the Rugby World Cup Broadcast Rights. Paper presented at the First Annual Postgraduate Student Symposium, School of Physical Education, University of Otago, 19, November.

Beissel, A. S. (2009). Ethnographic tales from NASCAR Nation. Presented in Honors Research Design and Analysis Course, School of Physical Education, University of Otago, September.

Beissel, A. S., & Newman, J.I. (2008). Manufacturing America: Post-Industrialism and the Militarized Stock Car Spectacle. Paper presented at the Annual Conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Denver, Colorado, November.

Beissel, A.S. (2008). NASCAR of Tomorrow: NASCAR, Milton Friedman, and the Politics of Falling Empire. Paper presented at the 1st Annual University of Maryland Physical Cultural Studies Student Conference, College Park, Maryland, April.

Braunstein, J., Newman, J. I., & Beissel, A. S. (2007). NASCAR: A preliminary exploration of the sponsorship match-up process. Paper presented at the Annual Conference for the North American Society for Sport Management, Miami, Florida, May.

Scholarships

2011, Postgraduate Conference Travel Award, Division of Science, University of Otago

2010, PhD Postgraduate Research Grant, School of Physical Education, University of Otago

2009, Out-of-Season PhD Scholarship for Postgraduate Study, University of Otago

2008, Graduate Student Award, Graduate Student Association, Towson University

2007, Undergraduate Scholarship Award, Division of Academic and Community Outreach, Towson University

Awards
2011, University of Otago, Otago University Men’s Basketball Club, President’s Leadership Award

2010, PhD Postgraduate Research Grant, Research Committee, School of Physical Education, University of Otago

2008, Towson University, Graduate Student Award

2007, Towson University, Department of Kinesiology, Outstanding Undergraduate Sport Management Student Award

2006, Towson University, Vice President’s Student Leadership Award

Hobbies
Player-manager for Otago University Basketball Club, historical simulation baseball leagues, critically-acclaimed film and novels (the classics), & supporting the Atlanta Braves and Liverpool FC

Last update 22 Nov 2011