Faculty and Staff Profiles

Teaching:

• Foundations of Sport and Leisure Management
• Administration of Intercollegiate Athletics
• Sport Promotional Culture
• Sport and Leisure as Popular Culture
• Sport in a Global Perspective

Specialization:

• Sport and gender
• Marketing of women athletes and women's sport
• Social responsibility of sport entities

Accomplishments:

• Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Memphis
• Affiliate Member, Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis
• Former Assistant Athletic Director, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Illinois Volleyball

• Doctor of Philosophy Sport, Recreation, and Tourism - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2002

• Assistant Athletic Director, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2000-2002
• Head Academic Counselor, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1997-2000
• Academic Counselor/Life Skills Coordinator, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1995-1997

• Krane, V., Ross, S.R., Miller, M, Rowse, J.L., Ganoe, K., Andrzejczyk, J A.,& Lucas, C.B. (2010). Power and focus: Self-representation of female college athletes Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 2(2), 175-195.  
• Ross, S.R., Ridinger, L., & Cuneen, J. (2009). From drivers to divas: Advertising images of women in motorsport. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 10(4), 204-214.
• Ross, S.R., & Parks, J.B. (2008). Sport management students’ attitudes toward women: A challenge for educators, Sport Management Education Journal, 2(1), 1-18.
• Ross, S.R., & Shinew, K.J. (2008). Perspectives of women college athletes on sport and gender. Sex Roles, 58(1-2), 40-57.
• Cuneen, J., Spencer, N.E., Ross, S.R., & Apostolopoulou, A. (2007). Advertising portrayals of Indy’s female drivers: A perspective on the succession from Guthrie to Patrick. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 16, 147-160.

• Ross, S.R., (2010, February).  Athlete or Diva? Photo Image preferences of college and adolescent female athletes.  Women’s Research Forum, University of Memphis. 
• *Krane, V., Ross, S.R., Lucas, C.B., Barak, K.S., & Miller, M. (2009, November). Creating an image: Perspectives of college and adolescent female athletes. Presentation at the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  
• *Ross, S.R., Krane, V., Miller, M., Lucas, C.B., Ganoe, K., & Barak, K.S. (2009, June).  Using visual methods to explore photographic self-representations of female athletes.  Submitted to the International Conference for Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, London, England. 
       
• *Martin, N., Ross, S.R.  & Irwin, R. (2009, May). Recycling corporate social responsibility: Greenwashing the sport industry fence? Paper presented at the National Conference of the North American Society for Sport Management, Columbia, SC.       
• Krane, V., & Ross, S.R. (2009, February). Interpretations of college athletes’ photographic self-representations. Tucker Table presentation at the Tucker Center for Girls and Women in Sport, University of Minnesota. 
• *Ross, S.R., Ganoe, K., Rowse, J.L., Lucas, C.B., Krane, V., Miller, M. & Andrzejczyk, J. (2008, April).  Power and focus: Self-representation of female college athletes.  Scholarly Conference on College Sport, Memphis, TN.
• Krane, V., Ross, S.R., Miller, M, & Ganoe, K. (2007, October). This is a female athlete. Department of Popular Culture Colloquium Series, Bowling Green State University. 
• *Ross, S.R., & Parks, J.B.  (2007, May). What are they thinking? Sport Management students' attitudes toward women.  Poster presentation at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
• *Ross, S.R. (2007, March).  Judged on appearances: Gender performances of elite women gymnasts.  Girls and Women Rock: Celebrating 35 years of sport and Title IX Academic and Legal Symposium, Cleveland, OH.   
• *Ross, S.R.  (2007, March). Women college athletes share understanding of their mothers’ sport involvement.  Girls and Women Rock: Celebrating 35 years of sport and Title IX Academic and Legal Symposium, Cleveland, OH.  
• *Apostolopoulou, A., Ross, S.R., Spencer, N.E. & Cuneen, J. (2006, June).  Danica Patrick: The making and marketing of the “Indy Go-Girl.”  The North American Society for Sport Management conference, Kansas City, MO. (Abstract published)         
• Ross, S.R. (2005, October). The views of elite women athletes on the female/athlete paradox. Paper presented for Developmental Kinesiology graduate student seminar, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.