John Vincent

Associate Professor, Sport Management
Department of Kinesiology
104 Moore Hall
(205)-348-8369
jvincent@bamaed.ua.edu
Appointed in 2000

Recent Courses Taught:

HPE 588: Sport Marketing & the Media
HPE 500: Sport Sociology

Areas of Research:

sport media and the intersection of gender, race, and nationality

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., The Florida State University, 2000. Sport pedagogy.
M.S., The University of Southern Mississippi, 1993. Sport Administration.
A.C.I.B., The North East Surrey College of Technology (United Kingdom), 1990. Business & Finance.

Professional Experiences:

Associate Professor of Sport Management, The College of Education, The University of Alabama, 2006 – Present.

Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Department of Kinesiology, The University of Alabama, 2001-2006.

Instructor, The University of Southern Mississippi, Human Performance, College of Health, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2000.

Head Women’s Soccer Coach, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1997-1999.

Selected Publications:

Vincent, J., & Crossman, J. (in press). Champions, a celebrity crossover, and a capitulator: The construction of gender in broadsheet newspapers’ narratives about selected competitors during “The Championships” at Wimbledon. International Journal of Sport Communication.

Vincent, J., Pederson, P. Whisenant, W., & Massey, C. D. (2007). Analyzing the print media coverage of professional tennis players: British newspaper narratives about female competitors in the Wimbledon Championships. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 2(3), 281-300.

Vincent, J. & Glamser F. (2006). Gender differences in the relative age effect among United States Olympic Development Program youth soccer players. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24(4), 405-413.

Vincent, J. (2004). Game, sex, and match: The construction of gender in British newspaper coverage of the 2000 Wimbledon Championships. Sociology of Sport Journal, 21(4), 435-456.

Vincent, J., Imwold, C., Johnson, J, T., & Massey, C. D. (2003). Newspaper Coverage of Female Athletes Competing in Selected Sports in the Centennial Olympic Games. Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal, 12(1), 1-21.

Vincent, J., Imwold, C., Masemann, V., & Johnson, J. T. (2002). A comparison of selected British, Canadian, and United States newspaper coverage of female and male athletes competing in the centennial Olympic Games: Did female athletes receive equitable coverage in the "Games of the Women?" International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 37(3-4), 319-335.

Selected Presentations:

Vincent, J., & Crossman, J. (2006). Is Dorothy treated fairly by the press in the land of Oz? Three Australian newspapers’ gendered coverage of the 2005 Australian Open tennis tournament. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 1-4, 2006.

Vincent, J., Hill, J. S., & Wright, K. (2006). Globalized branding: A case study of Manchester United football club. 21st Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport Management, Kansas City, MO, May 30 – June 3, 2006.

Crossman, J., & Vincent, J. (2004). Cross-national comparisons of newspapers’ gendered coverage of Wimbledon 2004. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Conference, Tuscon (AZ), November 3 - 6, 2004.

Vincent, J. (2003). Sporting Lolitas, Amazons, & freaks: Newspaper portrayal of women’s tennis. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Conference, Montreal, October 30 – November 1, 2003

Vincent, J. (2002). Newspaper coverage of female athletes competing in selected sports in the centennial Olympic Games: The more things change the more they stay the same. International Association for Media and Communication Research 23rd Conference and General Assembly, Barcelona, 21 – 26 July