Cam Mallett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cam Mallett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cam |
| FAMILY NAME | Mallett |
| SIGNATURE | MALLETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0158-3692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Explaining the Olympics to Aliens
An Introduction to Sport Studies as a Public Service
Immediately after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, the Democratic Party spent its first days in the opposition asking itself: “Do we need our own Joe Rogan?”1 In 2024, Rogan, a former mixed martial arts commentator turned podcast host, commanded an audience of nearly twenty-two million listeners. His shock-jock-style podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, hit 1.2 billion minutes of watch time in the US alone. Fo…
Loserville
In Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports, Clayton Trutor crafts a wide-ranging and meticulously researched history of the earliest professional sports franchises in the American South. Utilizing the rich scholarship on mid-twentieth-century Atlanta and a host of archival and newspaper sources, Trutor documents how civic leaders brought major league sport to the state of Georgia and why Atlan…
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice
From 1947 to 1973, a Black Southern sportswriter named Marion Jackson grappled with the role of all-Black sporting organizations during the age of desegregation. As sports editor for the Atlanta Daily World, the United States' largest Black daily newspaper, Jackson covered various parallel institutions that provided sporting opportunities for Black athletes, such as football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Negro Baseball L…
The 100% Wrong Club
From 1934 to the 1980s, an organization of Black college football fans known as the 100% Wrong Club affixed itself at the center of the sporting world in Atlanta, Georgia. The club's Black, middle-class members achieved this prominence by mobilizing the city's Black newspapers, colleges, and businesses in a campaign for racial equality. Scholars have described similar networks of Black institutions as “sporting congregations” that strive to reinf…
Paralympic protest
In October 1979, the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF) imposed a lifetime ban on Maggy Jones, a medal-winning British Paralympian. Her crime: distributing leaflets about the healthcare disparities in apartheid South Africa. Two years later, Bernard Leach, the British record holder in the freestyle swim, withdrew from the International Stoke Mandeville Games in protest when he learned that South Africa planned to send a team.…
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Paralympic protest
In October 1979, the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF) imposed a lifetime ban on Maggy Jones, a medal-winning British Paralympian. Her crime: distributing leaflets about the healthcare disparities in apartheid South Africa. Two years later, Bernard Leach, the British record holder in the freestyle swim, withdrew from the International Stoke Mandeville Games in protest when he learned that South Africa planned to send a team.…
The 100% Wrong Club
From 1934 to the 1980s, an organization of Black college football fans known as the 100% Wrong Club affixed itself at the center of the sporting world in Atlanta, Georgia. The club's Black, middle-class members achieved this prominence by mobilizing the city's Black newspapers, colleges, and businesses in a campaign for racial equality. Scholars have described similar networks of Black institutions as “sporting congregations” that strive to reinf…
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice
From 1947 to 1973, a Black Southern sportswriter named Marion Jackson grappled with the role of all-Black sporting organizations during the age of desegregation. As sports editor for the Atlanta Daily World, the United States' largest Black daily newspaper, Jackson covered various parallel institutions that provided sporting opportunities for Black athletes, such as football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Negro Baseball L…
Loserville
In Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports, Clayton Trutor crafts a wide-ranging and meticulously researched history of the earliest professional sports franchises in the American South. Utilizing the rich scholarship on mid-twentieth-century Atlanta and a host of archival and newspaper sources, Trutor documents how civic leaders brought major league sport to the state of Georgia and why Atlan…
An Introduction to Sport Studies as a Public Service
Immediately after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, the Democratic Party spent its first days in the opposition asking itself: “Do we need our own Joe Rogan?”1 In 2024, Rogan, a former mixed martial arts commentator turned podcast host, commanded an audience of nearly twenty-two million listeners. His shock-jock-style podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, hit 1.2 billion minutes of watch time in the US alone. Fo…
Explaining the Olympics to Aliens
Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works) · American Sports and Literature (3 works) · Atlanta (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)