Jared Bahir Browsh

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Director of Critical Sports Studies
  • CRITICAL SPORTS STUDIES
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Office Location: Ketchum 272

Pronouns: they / him

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Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
M.A., Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media, Temple University, 2017
B.A., Communication, University of Pennsylvania, minors in Classical Studies & Sociology, 2007

Research Interests

Mass Communication, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Sports Studies, Policy, Economics, History

Affiliations

Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS)


Jared Bahir Browsh is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of the Critical Sports Studies Program in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Dr. Browsh is a cultural historian, commentator and author examining the political economics of sports and popular culture including the relationship between culture, money, power, and identity in the United States and globally. Dr. Browsh’s recent work has examined the whitewashing of sports history and the erasure of the athletic and cultural contributions of African-Americans, women, and other historically marginalized groups and how the evolution of legal and economic policies that impact the sport and cultural industries both challenge and contribute to inequities in sport. Their upcoming publications include a chapter on cultural appropriation in the globalization efforts by the National Football League, a book on the impact of legalized sports gambling in the United States, and projects examining the use of animation in sports marketing, and the history of basketball clubs as a source of ethnic identity and community.


Selected Publications

Books

Sports Gambling in America: Examining the Facts, Bloomsbury Academic, Fall 2025

McFarland, 2018

Edited Volumes

The African American Experience in Sport: A Reader, Cognella, 2023

Introduction to Critical Sports Studies, A Document Reader, Second Edition co-edited with Dr. Nicholas Villanueva Jr., 2024

Chapters

“An American Footballer in London: Globalization and the NFL,” from How to Watch Sports, edited by Adam Rugg, NYU Press, 2024

Capitalization in a Half-Shell: Multimedia, Cross-Demographic Marketing of Animated Content from Mickey to Michelangelo from edited by Brian N. Duchaney and David S. Silverman, McFarland, 2023

“Taking Our Ball and Staying Home: Nationalistic Exceptionalism and Cultural Imperialism in U.S. Sports Coverage and Leagues” from , edited by Nicholas Villanueva Jr., McFarland, 2020

Articles

For most recently published articles, see "News Jared" above.

, The Conversation, May 2024

, The Conversation, March 2024

, The Conversation, November 2023

Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 34 No. 2 (2019)

Book Reviews

Review of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA, Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Bloomsbury Press (2023), H-France, 2024

Review of Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Erik Sherman, University of Nebraska Press (2023) New Mexico Historical Review, 2024

Michael Z. Newman, MIT Press (2018), Lateral, 2017

Selected Podcasts & Interviews

Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder, -Academic Minute, July 24, 2024

Remembering 715, A Number that Transcended Baseball,” University of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, 2024

), Fantasy/Animation, 2024

“JٲDzԲ,” Michael Smerconish Show, August 3, 2022

New York Post, July 31, 2022