About the Author
Paul M. Pedersen, PhD, is a professor of sport management and the
director of the sport management program in the School of Public Health
at Indiana University at Bloomington (IU). He has worked as a sports
writer, sport management consultant, and sport business columnist.
Pedersen's primary areas of scholarly interest and research are the
symbiotic relationship between sport and communication, and the
activities and practices of various sport organization personnel.
A research fellow of the North American Society for Sport Management
(NASSM), Pedersen has published eight books (including Handbook of
Sport Communication, Research Methods and Design in Sport
Management, and Strategic Sport Communication) and over 95
articles in peer-reviewed outlets such as the Journal of Sport
Management, European Sport Management Quarterly, Sport
Marketing Quarterly, International Journal of Sports Marketing
and Sponsorship, Sociology of Sport Journal, International
Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Journal of Sports Economics.
He has also been a part of more than 100 refereed presentations at
professional conferences and more than 50 invited presentations,
including invited addresses in China, Denmark, Hungary, Norway, and
South Korea. He has been interviewed and quoted in publications as
diverse as the New York Times and China Daily.
Founder and editor in chief of the International Journal of Sport
Communication, he serves on the editorial board of 10 journals. A
2011 inductee into the Golden Eagle Hall of Fame (East High School in
Pueblo, Colorado), Pedersen lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his
wife, Jennifer, and their two youngest children, Brock and Carlie. Their
two oldest children also live in Bloomington and attend IU: Zack is an
undergraduate student, and Hallie is a graduate student.
Lucie Thibault, PhD, is a professor in the department of sport
management at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. She has taught at
Brock since 2002. Thibault has also taught at the University of British
Columbia and the University of Ottawa. In her quarter century of
teaching, Thibault has taught courses in organizational theory,
organizational behavior, ethics in sport, globalization of sport, and
policy and social issues in sport.
Thibault serves on the editorial board of the International Journal
of Sport Policy and Politics as well as the European Sport
Management Quarterly. She has held the roles of associate editor and
editor of the Journal of Sport Management. She is a member of the
North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) and was named a
research fellow of NASSM in 2001. In 2008, Thibault was awarded the
Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award from NASSM for her scholarly and
leadership contributions to the field.
Thibault’s research interests lie in the formation, management, and
evaluation of cross-sectoral partnerships in sport organizations. She
also investigates the role of the Canadian government in sport
excellence and sport participation and government involvement in
developing sport policy. She has been an invited speaker at many
conferences around the world. Her research has appeared in numerous
scholarly journals, including the Journal of Sport Management, International
Review for the Sociology of Sport, Journal of Sport and Social
Issues, Human Relations, Leisure Studies, European
Sport Management Quarterly, International Journal for Sport
Policy and Politics, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Thibault resides in the Niagara region of Ontario.
