Amira Rose Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas-Austin where she specializes in 20th Century American History with an emphasis on race, gender, sports, and politics. Recently named a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, she finishing up her first book, “Can’t Eat a Medal”: The Lives and Labors of Black Women Athletes in the Age of Jim Crow (UNC Press). Her work has appeared in scholarly journals including the Radical History Review and the Journal of African American History as well as popular outlets such as The Washington Post and Slate. Davis also provides sports commentary for NPR, ESPN, and BBC and serves on the advisory board of the Jackie Robinson Museum and the Arthur Ashe Legacy Foundation. Davis, the co-host of the Feminist sports podcast, Burn it All Down and the host of Season 3 of American Prodigies.

Courtney M. Cox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES) at the University of Oregon. Her research examines issues related to identity, technology, and labor through sport. Her book, Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball, considers how Black women and non-binary athletes maneuver through the global sports-media complex. She is also co-director (with Dr. Perry B. Johnson) of The Sound of Victory, a multi-platform digital humanities project located at the intersection of music, sound, and sport. She previously worked for ESPN, Longhorn Network, NPR-affiliate KPCC, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.

Kathy Pulupa is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern California (USC), in the department of American Studies and Ethnicity (ASE). She is a first-generation Queer Latinx scholar whose community focused scholarship explores the social worlds of queer recreational soccer players across Los Angeles County. Her work more broadly enters the scholarly fields of Latinx, Queer, and Sports Studies. Kathy uses a multi-method approach to her scholarship through oral histories, ethnographic approaches, photographic storytelling, and ArcGIS mapping software to encompass the depth of her multi-faceted project. Her dissertation largely explores the transformation of what we consider Queer spaces and what the benefits of recreational sport/sporting participation are. In her project, Queer spaces are moved from traditional gay bars and clubs to public spaces like recreational soccer fields during daytime hours. She makes an argument about the deep impact of recreational sports on identity formation for queer Latinx women. She published an article about the transformative nature of recreational sports titled “Nos Vemos en La Cancha” in the American Quarterly special issue The Body Issue: Sports and the Politics of Embodiment. She is committed to the community-oriented nature of her work and making sure her scholarship is public facing. Kathy was recently awarded the Emerging Scholars Award by the American Studies Association (ASA)  Sports Studies Caucus (SSC) in 2024.

Noah Cohan is Assistant Director and Lecturer of American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Cohan’s recent course offerings include "Empire of Hoop: Basketball as American Culture," “The Racialized Sporting Landscape of St. Louis: Athletics Aesthetics, Bias, and Opportunity,” “Sports & Society: Contemporary Issues in American Sports,” and “The Black Athlete in American Literature: From Frederick Douglass to LeBron James." Cohan’s book, We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sports, was published in July 2019 by the University of Nebraska Press. He is the co-editor of Sport in the University, a special issue of the journal American Studies (Fall 2016), founding coordinator of the Sports Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association, co-convener of the AMCS program initiative in Sports and Society: Culture, Power, and Identity, and cocreator of Whereas Hoops, a multimedia work of scholarship and activism aimed at getting basketball hoops installed in St. Louis's Forest Park.