Sean Chaplin

Expertise: U.S. Race & Ethnic Relations, Sex & Gender, Culture, Sport, Education

Dr. Chaplin’s research interest is with collegiate varsity and recreational sports players. Specifically, Dr. Chaplin studies the collegiate social interactions and experiences of varsity student-athletes and recreational/lay sportsmen/women using a “Grounded Theory” ethnographic approach. Dr. Chaplin’s dissertation focused on the everyday micro-level interactions and experiences of pickup basketball players via an analysis of their constructions and negotiations of cultures, structures, and racial & ethnic relations in large and small groups inside a university-sponsored recreational sports facility.

The subject/titles of the course(s) I currently teach:

• SC/(Soci) 201 51 Foundations/Introduction to Sociology
• SC/(Soci)/Sports Leadership 203 51 The Sociology of Sport
• SC/(Soci) 278 51 Intro to (Sociohistorical and Contemporary) African Americans’ Experiences
• SC/(Soci)/Sports Leadership 303 51 Diversity (and Inclusion) in Sport (and Sport Organizations)
• SC 400 51 SP21 Classical & Contemporary Sociological Theory

Special Topics Courses:

• SC/(Soci) 320 Sex and Gender
• SC/(Soci) 355 Comparative (U.S. Racial &) Ethnic Relations
• SC/(Soci)/Sports Leadership 303/SPS 303 Women, Gender Relations & Sports

Service and Awards:

• 2018-2019 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awardee: ($45,000 Grant requiring a 10-month residential fellowship From The United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs The University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago.
• 2018 Yale University and The Area Cooperative Educational Services/(ACES) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities/NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for Educators: "The Long Civil Rights Movement" under Director Leslie Abbatiello, Certificate of Completion.
• 2018 Stanford University sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Education: "People on the Move: Global Migration in the Past and Present" Spring Semester Institute at The Graduate School of Education under Janet Carlson, Ph.D. Director of CSET/Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, Certificate of Completion.
• 2018 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies/CLACS Teacher Institute in collaboration with UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS), Whitewater, and The Florida International University Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education: "Race and Ethnicity in Latin America" under Director Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, Certificate of Completion.
• 2018 The University of Mississippi, Oxford sponsored by the National Science Foundation: "Summer Course for Grant Writing in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences" under co-organizers Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., Willa Johnson, Ph.D., and John Sonnett, Ph.D., Associate Professors of Sociology, Certificate of Completion.
• 2017 Summer Teachers Scholars Institute Fellow: “Black Activist New York” Institute for Research on African-American Studies, Columbia University, New York.
• 2016-2017 Faculty Co-Advisor and (2018) Faculty-Student Organizational Advisor of the Year Award– (nominated by Black Students in Action, formerly The African American Alliance)
• 2016-2018 Faculty Co-Advisor – Latin American Student Association/LASA, (with Dr. Gloria S. Vaquera, Associate Professor of Sociology).

Professional Memberships and Organization Affiliations:

• 2017-2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport/NASSS
• 2017-2018 Association of Black Sociologists/ABS
• 2015-2018 Global Studies Association of North America/GSA
• 2013-2018 American Sociological Association/ASA
  • Sections: Race & Ethnicity; Latino/a Sociology; Cultural Sociology