Education
Ph.D., Physical Cultural Studies, University of Maryland, 2018
M.A., History, University of Wyoming, 2012
B.A., History, University of Delaware, 2008
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Physical Cultural Studies, University of Maryland, 2018
M.A., History, University of Wyoming, 2012
B.A., History, University of Delaware, 2008
History of Sport and Physical Culture
Gender, Race, and Sport
Samuel M. Clevenger joined the Sport Management faculty in Towson University’s Department of Kinesiology in 2018. Prior to arriving at Towson, he previously taught at the University of Maryland. His teaching interests include the history and socio-cultural study of sport, sport and media studies, sport and the environment, and issues of race, gender, and nationalism within sport. He supports the study of historical topics related to sport and the sporting industry, and works to highlight the importance and practical applicability of historical analysis through his teaching and scholarship. Dr. Clevenger has previously conducted research on discourses of militarization and agricultural labor within the history of physically active university pedagogy, as well as the role of postcolonial theories within the sport history field. His current research focuses on the centrality of sporting and discourses of health in the planning of early twentieth-century utopian and model communities.