The Director

Donald Sabo, Ph.D.,
Director of the Center for Research on Physical Activity, Sport & Health (CRPASH)

Professor Sabo has directed, co-directed, and/or authored many nationwide research studies, including:

  • The Women's Sports Foundation Report: Health Risks and the Teen Athlete(2000),
  • The Women's Sports Foundation Report: Sport and Teen Pregnancy (1998),
  • President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports report Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Girls(1997),
  • The Women's Sports Foundation Gender Equity Report Card: A Survey of Athletic Opportunity in American Higher Education (1997),
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Televised International Athletic Events (1995),
    Sports and Fitness in the Lives of American Working Women(1993),
    The Women's Sports Foundation Report: Minorities in Sport(1989),
    The Wilson Report: Moms, Dads, Daughters, and Sports(1988).
 

Dr. Sabo has edited and authored eight books, including:

  • and David Gordon (1994) Men's Health & Illness: Gender, Power and the Body (Sage Publishers),
  • and Michael Messner (1995) Sex, Violence & Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity (Crossing Press),
  • and Jim McKay and Michael Messner (2000), Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport (Sage Publications),
  • and Terry Kupers, M.D. and Willie London (2001), Prison Masculinities (Temple University Press).

Professor Sabo is a nationally recognized expert on Title IX. As a former trustee of the Women's Sports Foundation, he directed the development of the first national policy on sexual harassment in athletic settings. He served as an expert witness in the Brown University versus Cohen case and the Citadel trial.

Professor Sabo is a former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. He is a frequently invited speaker at colleges, universities, and conferences. He is an eye-to-eye scholar, an avid keynoter, and a public intellectual who is regularly quoted in national media such as USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Shape, Glamour, Dallas Morning News, United States News and World Report, and Working Woman Magazine. He has appeared on television shows such as The Today Show, Oprah, and Donahue. He is a public health advoate, a parent and fitness enthusiast, and a former NCAA Division I-A defensive football captain.