Chen Chen

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Sport Management

Title:

Assistant Professor, Sport Management

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta
MA, International Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Beijing
BA, Journalism, Renmin University of China, Beijing

Areas of Expertise:

Qualitative Methodologies

Critical Social Research in Sport

Sport, (Settler) Colonialism, and Decolonization

Race and Asian Diaspora in Sport

Globalization, Political Economy, and Ecology

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 explore the intersection of sport with colonialism as well as social, racial, and environmental justice. He is particularly interested in how non-dominant epistemologies can mobilize sport, education, and movement spaces to be more just and equitable, facilitating more meaningful community-building towards decolonization and collective liberation.

Chen is an editorial board member for the Sociology of Sport Journal. His research has been published in the Journal of Sport Management, Event Management, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, Leisure/Loisir, European Journal for Sport and Society, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Quest, and Cities. Chen is a leader, organizer, and staunch advocate for students and scholars of underrepresented backgrounds. He is the founding organizer of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) caucus at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) conference. Chen is on the board of advisors at the Sporting Justice Collective and a full member of the Sport Ecology Group.

Most recently, 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. This publication received the Art Publication Award from Ontario Galleries (GOG) in 2022.

Chen is an affiliated faculty member for UConn’s Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) and Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (AAASI). For the current academic year, Chen also serves as an Inaugural Faculty Affiliate for Inclusive Excellence for the Graduate School.

Selected Publications:

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.

Peers, D., Joseph, J., McGuire-Adams, T., Eales, L., Fawaz, N., Chen, C., Hamdon, E., Kingsley, B., (2023). We become gardens: Intersectional methodologies for mutual flourishing. Leisure/Loisir, 47(1), 27 – 47.

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.

Chen, C., & Mason, D. S. (2016). Professional sports franchises and city status: Los Angeles and the National Football League, In V. Fletcher (ed.), Urban and rural developments: Perspectives, strategies and challenges (pp. 133-150). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Email	cchen@uconn.edu
Mailing Address	U-3093
Office Location	Gentry 217A