Dr. Carol A. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Sport Management Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.' She received her B.S. in Athletic Administration from the University of Iowa, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.' Dr. Barr teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of College Athletics, Event Sponsorship, Event Management, and Organizational Behavior and Development.' Dr. Barr’s research interests and areas of specialization include management issues within collegiate athletics, and gender equity.' Dr. Barr is involved in the area of gender equity within interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics.' She has served as a consultant to the NCAA, the University's Athletic Department, and local school systems in Massachusetts.' She is also an expert on numerous areas of collegiate athletic administration and policy development in intercollegiate athletics.
Mary A. Hums holds a PhD in Sport Management from Ohio State University, an MA in Athletic Administration as well as an MBA from the University of Iowa, and a BBA in Management from the University of Notre Dame. In 2009, Hums was selected as the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) Earle F. Zeigler Lecturer, the organization's most prestigious academic honor. She has twice been invited to White House events - the 2015 White House Presidential Reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 2014 White House Summit and Research Forum on Improved Health and Fitness for Americans with Disabilities.In 2014, she received the NASSM Diversity Award and also the Southern Sport Management Association Sport Management Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2008, Hums was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting International Scholar at Katholische Universitat in Leuven, Belgium.'In 2006, she was selected by the United States Olympic Committee to represent the United States at the International Olympic Academy Educators Session in Olympia, Greece. She volunteered for the 1996 Summer Paralympic Games in Atlanta, 2002 Winter Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City, 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver, and the 2015 Para-Pan American Games in Toronto. In 2004, she moved to Athens, Greece, working both the Olympic (Softball) and Paralympic (Goalball) Games.'In addition to co-authoring the 2018 (4th edition) textbook Governance and Policy in Sport Organizations, the 2004 book Paralympic Sport: All Sports for All People, and the 2001 book Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals,'Hums co-edited the 2007 book Women as Leaders in Sport: Impact and Influence. Her other scholarly work includes contributions to The Journal of Sport Management; European Sport Management Quarterly; The Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport; The Journal of Sport and Social Issues;'The Journal of Business Ethics; Sport Management Review; Adaptive Physical Activity Quarterly; The Journal of Career Development; The Journal of the International Council of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; The International Journal of Sport Management; The Baseball Research Journal; and numerous book chapters. Hums served as Managing Editor for the Sport Management Education Journal and was co-editor of three ICSSPE Bulletin Special Issues - Sport and Human Rights, Athletes and Social Change, and the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. She has 150+ refereed journal articles and book chapters and has given over 200 presentations to various scholarly associations both in the United States and abroad. Her main research interest is policy development in sport organizations, especially regarding inclusion of people with disabilities and also sport and human rights. She was a co-contributor to Article 30.5 of the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As an advocate for people with disabilities in sport, Hums has played a role in advancements including Major League Baseball changing the name of the Disabled List to the Injured List, establishing the ESPYs for Best Male and Female Athletes with a Disability, and establishing the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.In addition to being a Past President of the Society for the Study of Legal Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity (SSLASPA – now Sport and Recreation Law Society – SRLA), she is a member of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH), and the International Olympic Academy Participants Association (IOAPA). She also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Louisville Miracle Baseball League and continues her work as a co-organizer of the Muhammad Ali Center's annual Athletes and Social Change Forum.Prior to coming to the University of Louisville, Hums served on the Sport Management faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, directed the Sport Management Program at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, and was Athletic Director at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, IN.'Hums is a monogram letter winner in Field Hockey at the University of Notre Dame. She is a 1996 inductee in the ASA Indiana Softball Hall of Fame and a 2009 inductee into the Marian High School (Mishawaka, IN) Athletic Hall of Fame.
