Undergraduate Majors and Concentrations
Academic & Administrative Coordinators
School of Health and Human Performance
The Kinesiology major and all the concentrations are accredited by Middle States and are approved programs by the NYS Department of Education. In addition, the Teacher Certification concentration is accredited by NCATE and the Athletic Training concentration is accredited by CAATE. For more information on AKA, go to www.americankinesiology.org.
Office:
B309 Tuttle North
Phone: (585) 395-2374
E-mail: mmelnick@brockport.edu
Education:
PhD, Ohio State University
MEd, Penn State University
BA, Hunter College
Area(s) of specialty:
Social psychology of sport including self- esteem, leadership, coach-athlete
dyad, sport group dynamics, cohesiveness, and social facilitation; sociology
of sport including sport and socialization, youth sports, gender and sport,
race/ethnicity and sport, sport and social class; sport spectatorship
and sport fandom including sport spectating as popular culture, the business
of spectator sports, the psychology of sport fandom, societal functions
of spectator sports, and spectator violence
Research interest(s):
Racial segregation by playing position; soccer hooliganism; heroes and
villains as adolescent reference idols; high school sports participation
and teen pregnancy; health risks and the teen athlete (tobacco, alcohol,
anabolic steroids, illicit drugs, weight loss, suicide, vehicular irresponsibility,
interpersonal violence); sport and globalization; relationship between
team cohesiveness and win-loss record
Publications:
Co-editor of Contemporary Issues in Sociology
of Sport (Human Kinetics, 2001); co-author of Sport Fans:
The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators (Routledge, 2001);
Co-researcher and co-author of four major reports published by the
Women's Sports Foundation; author and/or co-author of 100+ publications
in physical education, sociology of sport, and social psychology of
sport including 49 refereed journal articles
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Awards/Honors:
Past-President of the Sport Sociology Academy (NASPE); appointed Associate
Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), University
of Buffalo; Co-recipient of a three-year grant (2000-2003) for $462,000
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study "Sports, Gender
and Adolescent Substance Abuse"; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Teaching; visiting adjunct appointments at the University of Jyvaskyla
(Jyvaskyla, Finland), University of Brighton (Eastbourne, England),
Wingate Institute (Netanya, Israel), University of Otago (Dunedin, New
Zealand), the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education
(Oslo, Norway), and Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia).
Other:
A native New Yorker, Merrill came to The College at Brockport in
1971 after teaching three years at the University of Southern
California and two years at the University of Utah. His hobbies
include tennis, vegetable gardening, camping, investments,
bicycling, overseas travel, and rooting for the New York Yankees, Knicks
and Giants.
Zotero (Education focus)
5 pm - 6:15 pm
Naturalization Ceremony
11 am - noon
Leadership Program Kick-off
3:30 pm - 5 pm
ADP Distinguished Speaker Series "The Audacity to Heal: Our Rape Culture"
7 pm - 9 pm
Faculty/Staff Campaign Kickoff
noon - 1:30 pm
