Chen Chen
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Sport Management
Title:
Assistant Professor, Sport Management
Education:
Ph.D., Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta
MA, International Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China
Areas of Expertise:
Biography:
Currently an assistant professor of sport management at the Neag School of Education, Dr. Chen Chen describes himself as a grateful visitor from China to the land known as Connecticut (originated from the Algonquin word ‘Quinnehtukqut’, which means ‘beside the long tidal river’). Chen takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the paradoxical role of sport as a tool of both oppression and resistance within the structures of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism.
Chen’s interdisciplinary research has been published in top academic outlets such as the Journal of Sport Management, Event Management, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, European Sport Management Quarterly, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, Leisure/Loisir, European Journal for Sport and Society, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Quest, Settler Colonial Studies, and Cities. He served as an editorial board member for the Sociology of Sport Journal (2021 – 2024).
Chen is a staunch advocate for working-class students, scholars, and other underrepresented backgrounds. He was part of the founding committee for the Junior Scholars of Color Mentoring Program (Now the “S.E.E.D.S.” program) at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). Chen is also a full member of the Sport Ecology Group. Apart from his academic research, Chen co-edited an open-access, bilingual educational booklet titled How to be a Chinese Ally, the first resource of its kind for the overseas Chinese community to reflect upon its collective complicity and responsibility on the settler-occupied Indigenous land.
At the University of Connecticut, He is an affiliated faculty member for the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (AAASI). From 2022 to 2024, Chen also served as an Inaugural Faculty Affiliate for Inclusive Excellence at the Graduate School and led the creation of the Network for Enriched Mentorship (NEM) program.
Selected Publications:
Chen, C. (2024). Sport and Transnational Indigenous Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine? Examining Iroquois Nationals’ 2018 Trip to Israel. Sociology of Sport Journal.
Chen, C. (2024). Contesting Fan Tokens under Crypto-Capitalism: How sport NFT furthers the hypercommodification of fandom. International Journal for Sports Marketing and Sponsorship.
Chen, C., & Mason, D. S. (2024). Indigenous sport nationalism, settler borders, and (in)convenient solutions: Media framing of the 2010 Iroquois Nationals passport dispute. Settler Colonial Studies, 14(3), 291-313.
Brown, L. E. C., Chen, C., Ferguson, T., Szto, C., Weems, A. J., & Welch, N. (2023). Futures–Past,” A Reflection of Forty Years of SSJ: An Introduction. Sociology of Sport Journal, 40(4), 346 – 351.
Chen, C. (2023). Sport and imperialism today: Time for (an)other anti-imperialist front. Sport in Society, 26(11), 1891-1912.
Chen, C. (2023). The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories against the Dakar Rally’s ride in South America (2009 – 2019). International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
Chen, C. & Kellison, T. (2023). The Clock is Ticking: Contexts, Tensions, and Opportunities for Addressing Environmental Justice in Sport Management. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 13(3), 376 – 396.
Peers, D., Joseph, J., Chen, C., McGuire-Adams, T., Fawaz, N. V., Tink, L., Eales, L., Bridel, W., Hamdon, E., Carey, A., & Hall, L. (2023). An intersectional Foucauldian analysis of Canadian national sport organisations’ ‘equity, diversity, and inclusion’ (EDI) policies and the reinscribing of injustice.International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15(2), 193 – 209.
Chen, C., & Davidson, J. (2022). Settler Colonialism as Environmental Injustice: Rogers Place and Edmonton, Canada. In T. Kellison (ed.). Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice(pp. 172-187),Routledge.
Chen, C. (2022). Professional Sport, Settler Multiculturalism, and Exalted Chinese Arrivants: Re-Remembering the “China Clippers”. In S. Bien-Aime and C. Wang (eds). Perceptions of East Asian and Asian North American Athletics (pp. 175 – 198), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chen, C. (2022). Internationalization for whom and for what? Ethical questions for sport management programs in Global North universities. Quest, 74(3), 299- 318.
Chen, C. (2022). Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management. European Sport Management Quarterly, 22(5), 663-684.
McGuire-Adams, T., Joseph, J., Peers, D., Eales, L., Bridel, W., Chen, C., Hamdon, E., & Kingsley, B. (2022). Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing. Sociology of Sport Journal. 39(4), 313-322.
Singer., N., Agyemang, K., Chen, C., Walker, N., & Melton, N. (2022). What is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field.Journal of Sport Management. 36(3), 215-227.
Chen, C., & Mason, D. S. (2022). When two worlds collide: The unsettling experiences of non-Indigenous volunteers at 2017 World Indigenous Nations Games. Leisure/Loisir, 46(1), 69 – 95.
Peers, D., Joseph, J., McGuire-Adams, T., Eales, L., Fawaz, N., Chen, C., Hamdon, E., Kingsley, B., (2022). We become gardens: Intersectional methodologies for mutual flourishing. Leisure/Loisir.
Chen, C. (2021). Football legend, role model, cultural ambassador, and true Canadian? A critical reading of the mediated legacy of Norman Kwong, the “China Clipper”. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(7), 943–961.
Chen, C. (2021). (Un)Making the international student a settler of color: A decolonizing autoethnography.Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(5), 743-762.
Chen, C. (2021). How useful is ‘racial justice’? Deliberating ‘racial justice’ enunciations in sport. European Journal of Sport and Society, 18(3), 192-207.
Chen, C. (2021). When Chen Meets Chan. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 12(2), 40 – 41.
Chen, C., & Mason, D. S. (2019). Making settler colonialism visible in sport management.Journal of Sport Management, 33(5), 379-392.
Sant, S. L., Mason, D. S., & Chen, C. (2019). “Second-tier outpost”? Negative civic image and urban infrastructure development.Cities, 87, 238-246.
Chen, C., Mason, D. S., & Misener, L. (2018). Exploring media coverage of the 2017 World Indigenous Nations Games and North American Indigenous Games: A critical discourse analysis. Event Management, 22(6), 1009-1025.
Chen, C., & Mason, D. S. (2018). A postcolonial reading of representations of non-western leadership in sport management studies. Journal of Sport Management, 32(2), 150-169.
Chen, C., &. Mason, D. S. (2018). Hockey’s significant others: Canadian newspaper coverage of elite migrant athletes in the 1980s and 1990s. International Journal of the History of Sport. 35(10), 985 – 1007.
Honors and Awards
NASSS Research Fellow Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (2024)
Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award, Neag School of Education (2024)
Sociology of Sport Journal Outstanding Article Award (as co-author) (2023)
NASSM Research Fellow Award, North American Society for Sport Management (2023)
Art Publication Award, Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries (GOG) Award (2022)
Media Appearance/Public Scholarship:
Azeb, S., Chen, C., Dreidi, O., O’Keeffe, R., Phillips, C., Pijetlovic, K., Zirin, D., Silva, D., & Kalman-Lamb, N. (Hosts) (2024). Episode 158: On Sport and Genocide. [Audio podcast episode]. The End of Sport.
Chen, C., & Mole, B. (Host). (2024). Ecological imperialism through sport? The Dakar Rally and other stories [Audio podcast episode]. Sustainable Sport.
Adjepong, A., Chen, C., De Martini Ugolotti, N., Mwaniki, M., Ratna, A., Sailofsky, D., Mellis, J., Kalman-Lamb, N., & Silva, D. (Hosts). (2024). Episode 123: Complicity and Solidarity: Sport, Higher Education, and Palestine/Israel [Audio podcast episode]. The End of Sport.
Chen, C., Kalman-Lamb., & Silva, D. (Hosts). (2023b). Episode 115: The Sport Management Episode, Part Two [Audio podcast episode]. The End of Sport.
Chen, C., Kalman-Lamb., & Silva, D. (Hosts). (2023a). Episode 114: The Sport Management Episode, Part One [Audio podcast episode]. The End of Sport.
Chen, C., Nachman, J., & Levi, N. (Hosts). (2023). Imperialism and Sport [Audio podcast episode]. Sport, Social Justice and Development Podcast.
| cchen@uconn.edu | |
| Mailing Address | U-3093 |
| Office Location | Gentry 217A |
