Faculty

Dave Zang

Professor

Education

• Ph.D.: University of Maryland
• M.S.: Pennsylvania State University
• B.A.: Wittenberg University

Teaching Interests

• KNES 251, History of Sport in America
• KNES 349, Modern Olympic Games
• AMST 201, Introduction to American Studies
  

Professional Interest and Research

• Sports in the Vietnam Era
• Pop culture, 1950s-present
• Sports Literature

Recent Publications

• Producer, Director, and Writer, For the Love of Soul, 90 minute documentary film on R & B music (2012)
• "American Brigadoon:" Joe Paterno's Happy Valley," in U. of Illinois Press book on sport and community (2012)
• "Rowing on Troubled Waters," in The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub (Harvard U. Press, 2005)

News/Interesting Tidbits

• Presented "The Half Court Snuff of Billy Rose" in 2009 at Baltimore Center Stage's "Stoop Stories"
• Currently at work on a book of personal essays on American Sport