Associate Professor
Ph.D., Kinesiology, University of Maryland, 2014
M.A., American Studies, University of Kansas, 2009
B.A., Mass Communication; English, Buena Vista University, 2006
Urban Sport and Recreation
Sport and Globalization
Physical Activity, Health, and Wellness
Jacob Bustad (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University and joined the Sport Management faculty in 2014. His primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of sport management, physical cultural studies, the sociology of sport and urban studies. His research has been published in international journals such as Cities, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, International Journal of Sport Communication, and The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Dr. Bustad’s research explores the relationship between urban development, planning, and policy and sport and physical activity at various levels from major sport events to everyday recreation experiences. His work with Sport Management students focuses on preparing students for success in the sport and recreation industry, including developing global experiences in the classroom as well as via study abroad programs.
Bustad, J. J., & Rick, O. J. (2024) Downhill MTB, digital media, and DIY urbanism: Riding with Red Bull. In Mountain Biking, Culture and Society (pp. 113-124). Routledge.
DeLuca, J. R., & Bustad, J. J. (2023). Good body, good health, and the good mother habitus. Subjectivity, 30(3), 227-250.
DeLuca, J. R., & Bustad, J. J. (2023). When the clothes fit: Exploring the embodied transition to motherhood. Fashion, Style & Popular Culture.
Bustad, J. J., Clevenger, S. M., & Rick, O. J. (2023). COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause. Leisure Studies, 42(1), 85-99.
Bustad, J.J., & Andrews, D.L. (2023) The circus comes to town: Formula 1, globalization, and the uber-sport spectacle. In The History and Politics of Motor Racing: Lives in the Fast Lane (pp. 595-617). Springer International Publishing.
Clevenger, S. M., Rick, O. J., & Bustad, J. J. (2023). COVID-19, the Anthropocene, and the Need for Post-Sport. In Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages (pp. 545-568). Springer International Publishing.
Kjær, J. B., & Bustad, J. J. (2022). “Two silos of thinking that were not connected”: a board’s attempt to manage the logics of recreational and elite youth soccer in an urban community club. European Journal for Sport and Society, 1-17.
Maddox, C.B., DeLuca, J.R., & Bustad, J.J. (2022). Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother & Baby Magazine. Journal of Popular Culture, Accepted for publication February 2022.
Rick, O., & Bustad, J.J. (2021) Cycling the Flattened City: Urban Assemblages and Digital Visual Research. Somatechnics, 11.2: 246–264.
Kuhn, A.P., Cockerham, A., O’Reilly, N., Bustad, J.J., Miranda, V., Loboda, T.V., Black, M.M., & Hager, E.R. (2021). Home and neighborhood physical activity location availability among African American adolescent girls living in low-income, urban communities: associations with objectively measured physical activity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9): 5003.
Bustad, J.J. (2021) “Blame Games: Sport, Populism, and Crisis Politics in Greece”. In Populism and the Sport and Leisure Spectacle (pp. 89-101). Routledge.
Clevenger, S. M., Rick, O., & Bustad, J.J. (2020). Critiquing Anthropocentric Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Sport “Hiatus”. International Journal of Sport Communication, 13(3), 559-565.
Bustad, J.J., & Andrews, D.L. (2020). Remaking recreation: Neoliberal urbanism and public recreation in Baltimore. Cities, 103 (8), 102757.