Professor
Affiliations
- Department of Media & Cinema Studies
- Institute of Communications Research
- Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
- Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
- African American Studies and Research Program
- Department of Sociology
- Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Education
- PhD, University of Southern California
- PhD, University of Iowa
Course Specialties
- New Media Literacy
- Sport & Documentary
- Queer Studies
Background
Cole is the co-editor of “Women, Sport & Culture” (with Susan Birrell) and “Sport and Corporate Nationalisms” (with Michael Silk and David Andrews). She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Good Sports? The Boundaries of American Democracy.” She is the co-editor of the SUNY book series (with Michael Messner), “Sport, Culture & Social Relations,” and editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues. She serves on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies — Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Research in Sport & Exercise, and the NYU book series, “Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, & Health in the 21st Century.” She is the recipient of one of the University of Illinois’ Critical Research Initiative Awards and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Research and Creative Endeavor
Professor Cole was recently on sabbatical and worked with Chicago’s Beyondmedia Education, a non-profit, media-based social justice organization that works with underserved girls and women.
