John Nauright

John Nauright is Professor of Sport Management and Director of the Graduate Programs in Sport Management and Recreation Administration at Georgia Southern University. His PhD is in African history from Queen's University in Canada and his MA in African and British history from the University of South Carolina. He has published widely on sport in Africa and is the author of Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa (1997) and co-author with David Black of Rugby and the South African
Nation (1998). His most recent publication is on the political economy of global sporting events and developing nations which appears in Third World Quarterly. He was Foundation editor of the journal Football Studies and is former editor of International Sports Studies, the journal of the International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport. He has taught in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland
and Canada and has been visiting professor in Denmark, South Africa, Canada and England.