Curriculum Vitae
Cheryl Cooky, Ph.D.
Academic positions
2020– Professor Purdue University
2013–2020 Associate Professor Purdue University
2009–2013 Assistant Professor Purdue University
2006–2009 Assistant Professor California State University, Fullerton
Education
2006 Ph.D., Sociology University of Southern California · Gender Studies certificate
2004 M.A., Sociology University of Southern California
1998 M.S., Sport Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio · Women's Studies certificate
1995 B.S., Kinesiology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Books
2025 Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport Bloomsbury · 7th edition · with D. Stanley Eitzen · foreword by Michael A. Messner
2022 Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women's Sports Peter Lang · with Dunja Antunovic
2018 No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change Rutgers University Press · with Michael A. Messner
Selected articles
2026 A silo of their own: The compartmentalization of media coverage of women's sports, 1989–2024 Communication & Sport · with Musto, Tworek, Newell & Fong
2025 'Reimagining' gender equality in media coverage: Feminist frameworks in European and Olympic portrayal guidelines European Journal for Sport and Society · with Antunovic
2021 One and done: The long eclipse of women's televised sports, 1989–2019 Communication & Sport · with Council, Mears & Messner
2017 From fizzle to sizzle: Televised sports news and the production of gender-bland sexism Gender & Society · with Musto & Messner
2013 Policing the boundaries of sex: Gender verification and the Caster Semenya controversy Journal of Sex Research · with Dworkin
— 34 refereed journal articles in total Full list in the CV PDF above and on Google Scholar
Service & editorial
Editor Sociology of Sport Journal Flagship journal of the field
Past Pres. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)
Affiliations
Affiliate Researcher, Women's Sports Foundation
Affiliate Scholar, Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport University of Minnesota
Awards & honors
2023 Service Excellence Award North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
2019 Trailblazer Award Office of the Provost, Purdue University · recognizes mid-career faculty whose recent work has made a significant impact in their discipline
2018 Outstanding Article of the Year Sociology of Sport Journal · “We cannot stand idly by” (2017)
2017 Research Fellow, inaugural class North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
2016 Distinguished Scholar Award Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research, California State University, Fullerton
2014 Named a “Feminist We Love” The Feminist Wire
2006 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Article of the Year Sociology of Sport Journal