Michael W. Metzler is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Georgia State University. From 2003 to 2008 he served as the associate dean for academic programs in the College of Education with responsibilities in the areas of program assessment, accreditation, and graduate research. He served concurrently as associate dean and chair of the KH department in 2004–2005.
William A. Sutton, EdD, is s professor and associate department head on the faculty of the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida.
R. Brian Crow is an associate professor in the Department of Sport Management at Slippery Rock University, where he teaches courses related to sport marketing, sport finance, selling in sport, and current issues in sport.
Andy Gillentine served as the associate dean and director of the sport administration programs at the University of Miami (2002–2008) and at Mississippi State University (1995–2002).
John L. Crompton holds the rank of University Distinguished Professor and is both a Regents Professor and a Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University. He received his basic training in England. His undergraduate work was in physical education and geography at Loughborough College. After teaching high school for a year, he attended the University of Illinois, where he completed a MS degree in Recreation and Park Administration in 1968. In 1970, he was awarded another MS degree from Loughborough University of Technology, majoring in Business Administration.
Dennis R. Howard, PhD, is a Philip H. Knight Professor of Business at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. Dennis served as dean of the College from 2008 to 2010. Prior to becoming dean, he served as head of the Marketing Department and taught sports business classes at the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center.
Howard has authored or co-authored three books and close to 100 articles on sport and leisure industry topics. His book with John Crompton, Financing Sport, is the first comprehensive textbook on the many traditional and innovative...
Dr. John Dollar is an associate professor in the sport administration graduate program and department head for Health and Human Performance at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, his master’s alma mater.
The late Joy T. DeSensi, EdD (1946-2017) earned her doctoral degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. She served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School and was a Professor in the Department of Exercise, Sport, and Leisure Studies at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests included the areas of gender, race. and ethnicity in sport, women in sport, multiculturalism, and ethics in sport management. She made numerous state, district, national, and international presentations and was the author and...
