Brandon Wallace (he/him)

Brandon Wallace is a Doctoral Candidate in the Physical Cultural Studies program in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland. Broadly, his work examines sport as a vehicle for understanding how hierarchies of race, class, and gender are produced and contested in popular culture, while driven by an optimism that sport can serve as a powerful conduit of social justice. Brandon’s past research analyzed the cultural politics of athletic apparel, as well as the representations of Black bodies, spaces, and culture in sports media. His current research examines the Know Your Rights Camp led by Colin Kaepernick to explore the transformative possibilities of community-based sporting activism initiatives. Brandon’s work has been published in various academic books, as well as in academic journals such as Media, Culture, and Society; Communication and Sport; Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and International Journal of the History of Sport.