Todd Crosset

Associate Professor

Phone: (413) 545-5060
Email: tcrosset@sportmgt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 236
Course Syllabus: SPORTMGT 397H, SPORTMGT 661

Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1992
M.A., Brandeis University, 1985
B.A., University of Texas-Austin, 1982

Biography

Todd Crosset, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He did is doctorate work in Sociology at Brandeis University.

Todd's academic interests in sport management include, gender, racism, and sexual assault in sport. His book, Outsiders in the Clubhouse, about life on the LPGA golf tour, won the North American Society for Sport Sociology book of the year award in 1995. Read more.

Selected Publications:

Longley, Crosset, Jefferson (forthcoming) The Migration of African Americans to the Canadian Football League during the mid-20th Century: An Escape from Discrimination? International Journal of the History of Sport.

Davis and Crosset (forthcoming) Using Social Movement Theory to Study Outcomes in Sport-Related Social Movements. International review for sport sociology.

Crosset and Masteralexis (2008) The changing collective definition of collegiate sport and the potenial demise of Title IX. The Journal of College and University Law Vol 34. no. 3 p. 671-94

Crosset, T. “Capturing Racism: An analysis of racial projects within the Lisa Simpson vs. University of Colorado football rape case.” International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pgs. 172-196, Feb, 2007

Crosset, T. Sociology of Sport, in (eds. N. Smelser and R. Boudon) International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. NY, NY: Elsevier Sciences, 2001.

Crosset, T. Outsiders in the Clubhouse: The World of Professional Women's Golf. SUNY Press (1995).

Mitchell, R., Crosset, T., & Barr, C "Encouraging compliance without real power: Sport associations regulating teams." Journal of Sport Management, July, 1999.

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Current Courses:

SPORTMGT 200: Soc Sport & Phys Act
SPORTMGT 661: Soc-Hstcl Fnd Mod Sp.

Awards:

1995 Book of the Year, North American Society for Sport Sociology, for Outsiders in the Clubhouse: The World of Women's Professional Golf. Albany: SUNY Press (1995)