Assistant Professor, Hart School
sonkenkx@jmu.edu
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Areas of Expertise
- Equity and Inclusion in Sport
- Sport and Health
- Sport Labor Migration
- Gender in Sports
- Sport Governance and Policy Sport for Social Change
Education
- Ph.D., Sport Management, University of Georgia - 2021
- M.S. Ed., Sport Studies, Southern Illinois University - 2016
- M.A., Journalism and History, University of Giessen, Germany
Positions Held
- Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Western Illinois University, 2021-2022
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 2017-2021
- Public Affairs/Internal Professional Communications Intern, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, 2016-2017
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2014-2016
- Marketing Manager, INOVA Technology, Jersey City, 2012-2014
Select Publications
Sonkeng, K. (2022). The digital world of sport. The Impact of emerging media on sports news, information, and journalism. Journal of Sport Management.
Sonkeng, K., & Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2020). Exploring the healing touch of pickup basketball as a self-care method for educators and helping professionals: An ethnographic approach. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 12(4), 465-480.
Sonkeng, K., & Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2020). Examination of Policy Influences on Player Migration and Socio-cultural Impacts in European Professional Basketball. International Journal of Sport Management, 21(2), 101-131.
Chepyator-Thomson, J. R., Ojo, A., Sonkeng, K., Traore, K. (2020). Youth, globalization, and society in Africa and its diaspora. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hazzaa, R., Sonkeng, K., & Yoh, T. (2018). Antecedents and consequences of student-athletes contentment with academic services. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 11(1), 65-81
Awards and Recognitions
- Graduate School Emerging Leaders Program, University of Georgia - 2020-2021
- Saeeda Peermahomed Award, Department of International Student Life at the University of Georgia - 2020
- Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of International Student Life at the University of Georgia - 2020
- Dissertation Completion Award, University of Georgia Graduate School - 2020-2021
- Mary Ella Lunday Soule Scholarship Award, Department of Kinesiology at the University of Georgia; $51,608 award - 2020-2021
- NAFSA Region VII Advocacy Day Travel Grant, Division of Student Affairs at the University of Georgia - 2020
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