 Venise Berry is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa. Her research interests are in the area of African American cultural criticism. Her book, All of Me received a 2001 Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
 Andrew C. Billings is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Clemson University. He completed his graduate work at Indiana University-Bloomington. His publications may be found such journals as Journal of Sport & Social Issues, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Sports Journal.
 David Bogopa is teaching Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and offers modules in the faculty of Health Science. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts, Honors Degree and Masters Degree at the University of Durban Westville in South Africa. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of KwaZulu/Natal working on the topic entitled "Sport Development: The Evaluation of Sport Development Programs and transformation in South Africa". His research interests include amongst others, cultural, gender, and developmental issues within the context of South Africa and beyond. He has presented papers in many international conferences in, Germany, Brazil, Chicago, Kenya, Ghana and other countries. He has also published articles in various accredited journals.
 Douglas Booth is a professor and chairperson of the Department of Leisure Studies at University of Waikato, New Zealand. His primary research has focused on sport as a form of popular culture with a particular emphasis on political relationships and processes. Within this framework specific areas of investigation have included racism in South African sport, the Olympic Games and Olympic Movement, and the culture of surfing. More recently he has turned his attention to historiography and sport history. Booth is an executive member of the Australian Society for Sports History, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports (Berkshire, forthcoming), and the book reviews editor of International Sports Studies; He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport History, Sports History Review, Sporting Traditions, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Football Studies, and Olympika.
Delia D. Douglas is an independent scholar who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her Master of Science in Sport Studies from Miami University (Ohio) and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Douglas has taught in both Canada and the U.S. Her research and writing are interdisciplinary, drawing upon cultural studies, critical race theory and transnational feminist scholarship. Her areas of interest include of sport and socio-cultural issues, namely the social production of Blackness and Gender Relations, in addition to fieldwork in marginalized communities and the interrogation of the lives of racially diverse women in Canadian society. Douglas is currently working on two projects. The first is titled Mapping Multiculturalism: Women of Colour in British Columbia – The Politics of Inclusion and In/Visibility Revisited. This studyexamines the lived experiences of racially diverse women and the complex ways in which their lives are shaped by multiple elements of their identities. The second project Douglas is working on is titled Investigating the Absence of Race and Diversity in Physical Education: Towards an Anti-Racist Praxis. Itis a collaborative study conducted with Dr. Joannie Halas. This study is being funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and itconsiders the absence of racial diversity in physical education, in addition to the presence of whiteness as a privileged space that contributes to white hegemony within the discipline.
 Mark S. Dyreson is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in History at the University of Arizona. His research interests include history of sport and culture in the modern world with particular emphasis on the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. More specific research concentrates on the role of sport in the creation of modern societies. Dyreson has published in journals such as International Journal of the History of Sport, The Journal of Contemporary History, and the Journal of Sport History. Dyreson has also written Making the American Team: Sport, Culture and the Olympic Experience (University of Illinois Press, 1998).
 Janice Forsyth is an Aboriginal Scholar / Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies at the University of Manitoba. She graduated from the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario with both her M.A. and Ph.D., where she studied contemporary Canadian Aboriginal sport history. Specific areas of interest include Aboriginal participation in the Olympic Games, the North American Indigenous Games, the Tom Longboat Awards, and sports and games in Canadian residential schools. Her research focuses on issues of power relations in sport, and through her work, exposes the ways that traditional normative thinking both helps and hinders people’s aspirations for sport.
 Billy Hawkins is an associate professor of sport sociology at the University of Georgia. His book The New Plantation: The Internal Colonization of Black Students Athletes at Predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions examined the experiences of black student athletes in intercollegiate athletics.
 Michael Heine teaches Canadian sport history at the University of Manitoba. His research examines the traditional games practices of Alaskan and northern Canadian Indigenous peoples. He collaborates with northern Indigenous and government organizations in the development of instructional resources for Indigenous traditional games.
 Louis Harrison Jr. is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has focused his research on the influences of race related self-schemata on the physical activity choices of students. The purpose of this line of research is to first investigate the factors that influence physical activity participation and gain a deeper understanding of the racial labels ascribed to particular physical activities, and how these labels affect participation, persistence, and effort expended in particular physical activities. Additionally, he investigates ways physical educators can precipitate changes in the development of self-schemata for movement and physical activities in an effort to erase these racial labels, and broaden the physical activity choices of all students. Dr. Harrison's research articles appear in Quest, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Race Ethnicity & Education, and the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
 Jorge Iber is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Texas Tech University. Iber is involved research and program organization for Texas History, Mexican American History, Hispanics in the United States, Southwestern History and Culture, and History of American Sport and Recreation courses. Iber received his M.A and PhD from the University of Utah. Iber’s current research looks at Hispanics in the American West and Mexican Americans in sport. He has published articles in journals such as International Journal for the History of Sport, Journal of South Texas, and West Texas Historical Society Yearbook. Iber has written and co-authored several books.
 Bang-Chool Kim has a Senior Research Fellowship at Seoul National University. Kim teaches courses in sport history and track and field at Sungkyunkwan University and Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Kim received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Seoul National University and his PhD in Sport History from the Ohio State University. Kim’s research interests Currently Kim is collaborating with Dr. Sun Wong Kwon at California State University on extensions of his dissertation. Other research interests of Kim’s include programming aspects of South Korean Physical Education. Kim has published in journals such as The Korean Journal of Physical Education, Journal of the Research Institute of Physical Education, and the Journal of Korean Physical Education Association for Girls and Women. Kim’s recent book is entitled The Story of Golf (2005: Rainbow Press).
 Reuben May is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. His scholarship focuses on Race and Culture, Sociology of Sport, Sociology of the Everyday, Urban Ethnography. His book, Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern, depicts the safe haven of Trena's, a tavern on the South Side of Chicago where African American men gather on a daily basis and it's clearly not just for a drink. Their camaraderie (closely observed by the author himself, who became one of the "regulars" during the 1990s) is reflected in conversations, often literally transcribed, about everyday life.
 Mary G. McDonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Education, Health and Sport Studies and an affiliate in the Women’s Studies program at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Her scholarship focuses on feminist and cultural studies of sport and popular culture. She is co-editor with Susan Birrell of Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation (Northeastern, 2000) and is editor of a special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal, titled “Whiteness and Sport.”
Andre Odendaal is a professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He was educated at Queen’s College in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, and the University of Stellenbosch, where he received his BA, BA Honors (cum laude) and MA (cum laude) degrees. He was awarded his PhD in History from Cambridge University, England. In 1988 and 1989 Odendaal was a visiting fellow at London and Warwick Universities in Britain and Howard University in Washington D.C. His recent book The Story of an African Game, is the first to cover in detail the history and experience of black cricketers in South Africa.
 Catriona Parratt is an associate professor of cultural studies at the University of Iowa. Her book, More than Mere Amusement': Working Class Women's Leisure in England, 1750-1914, examined how and to what degree women managed to carve out a sphere of pleasure for themselves within the broader context of the history of English working-class culture.
 Victoria Paraschak is an associate professor of sport management at the University of Windsor. She has also worked as a consultant, and has contributed to community recreation plans and long-term sport and recreation planning in the Northwest Territories. She has written several articles on race and sport in Canada and Aboriginal people in North America.
 Samuel O. Regalado is a professor and chair of the Department of History at California State University at Stanislaus. Regalado earned his doctorate from Washington State University. He was a 1994 Smithsonian Institute Faculty Fellow and a Davies Fellow at the University of San Francisco. Regalado's credits include Viva Baseball: Latin Major Leaguers and their Special Hunger, along with several scholarly articles concerning Latinos in American professional baseball and Japanese-Americans in baseball.
Jepkorir Rose Chepyator-Thomson is Associate Professor and Director for the Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia. She received a PhD, MS, MA and BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a major in curriculum and instruction and a minor in educational policy studies her research interests follow this academic background. Her research studies focus on curriculum theory, women and sport in Africa, the globalization of sport, indigenous education and on issues of multiculturalism in physical education and sport in USA. She has published in such journals as Interchange, Social Development Issues and International Sports Journal. Dr. Chepyator- Thomson was inducted into the Hall of Fame by University of Wisconsin-Madison and received Orbits Sports award for her outstanding performances in track running in Kenya. She is a former NCAA Champion, former African record holder in 3000M and she represented the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kenya, and the African continent in major track championships (NCAA, African games, Commonwealth games and World Cup trials) where she broke Kenya and Africa records in 1500m and 3000M during her running career. In recent times, Dr. Chepyator-Thomson was featured in 2003 Georgia Magazine for her accomplishments as a scholar, mother and athlete, was selected by was selected by Ohio University's African Student Union as 2003-2004 African Hero, and received a Teaching in Excellence Award from the College of Education, The University of Georgia in 2003.
 David Rowe is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books. Rowe’s work can also be found in Social Semiotics, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and International Sports Studies. Rowe has been the recipient of many research grants since 2000 and currently sits on the editing board ofthe Metro, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
 Bea Vidacs is Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at the Cultural Anthropology Department of the Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She carried out almost two years of anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon on questions of nationalism and ethnicity and political culture through the study of the social and political significance of football. She has participated in conferences and written numerous papers on the subject which have appeared in journals and edited volumes.
 Kevin Wamsley is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario, and Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies. He has written several articles on the issue of race and First Nation peoples in Canada.
 SunYong Kwon received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and M.Ed. from Seoul National University, South Korea. He is currently with the School of Kinesiology and Nutritional Science, California State University, Los Angeles. His ongoing research interests include the production and representation of cultural identities as pertain to physical activity. His recent research focuses on globalization, sporting nationalism, and anti-Americanism in South Korea.
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