Janet S. Fink

Department Chair & Professor Sport Management

Office: Isenberg 236H

Tel: 413.545.7602

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Academic Background

Education

PhD, Sport Management, The Ohio State University, 1997

MS, Higher Education and Student Affairs, The Ohio State University, 1994

BA, Physical Education, The Ohio State University, 1988

Academic Appointments

Professor of Sport Management, University of Massachusetts, 9/13-Present

Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Massachusetts, 9/12-9/13

Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Connecticut, 8/07-9/12

Associate and Assistant Professor of Sport Management, The Ohio State University, 8/99-8/07

Research Interests

Sport Consumer Behavior
Marketing of Female Athletes and Women's Sport
Diversity Issues in Sport

Teaching Interests

Sport Consumer Behavior
Sport Marketing
Sport Law

Recent Honors & Awards

Distinguished Lecture, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, University of Minnesota, 2012

The Ohio State University Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007

NASSM Research Fellow , 2006

Selected Publications

Fink, J. S., LaVoi, N. M., & Newhall, K. (in press). Challenging the gender binary. Male practice basketball players’ views of female athletes and women’s sports. Sport in Society, 10.1080/17430437.2015.1096252.

Larkin, B., Fink, J. S., & Trail, G. T. (2015). An examination of constraints and motivators as predictors of sport media consumption substitution intention. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 24, 183-197.

Rocha, C. & Fink, J. S. (2015). Patriotism, national athletes, and the intentions of purchasing international sport products. International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship, 1, 138-152.

Fink, J. S. (2014). Female athletes, women‘s sport, and the sport media commercial complex: Have we really "come a long way, baby?" Sport Management Review. DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2014.05.001

Fink, J. S., Kane, M. J., LaVoi, N. M. (2014). The freedom to choose. Elite female athletes’ preferred representations within endorsement opportunities. Journal of Sport Management, 28, 207-219.