Michael Friedman (he/him)
Michael Friedman is an Instructor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on the relationship between public policy, urban design, and professional sports. Dr. Friedman’s first book, Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2023. He has published several academic articles on sports venues and events, including in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, City, Culture and Society, and the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. In 2008, Dr. Friedman won the Barbara S. Brown Student Paper Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, an organization for which he currently serves as Treasurer. He has attended Major League Baseball games in 49 stadiums.
Education:
B.A., Tufts University
M.A. in Kinesiology, University of Maryland
Ph.D. in Kinesiology, University of Maryland
Research:
Interests: Public policy, urban design, sport geography
Contact:
Email: mtfried@umd.edu
Website: https://sph.umd.edu/people/michael-friedman
Featured Publications
Friedman, M.T. (2023). Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Friedman, M.T. (2023). Nationals Park and the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative. In T. Kellison (ed.), Sports Stadiums and Environmental Justice. London: Routledge.
Friedman, M.T. & Beissel, A. (2020). Beyond “who pays?”: Stadium development and urban governance. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship: Special Issue on Sport and Urban Governance, 22(1), 107-125.
Friedman, M.T., (2017). Mallparks and the symbolic reconstruction of urban space. In N. Koch (ed.), Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective (pp. 173-189). London: Routledge.
Friedman, M.T., Bustad, J. & Andrews, D.L. (2012). Feeding the downtown monster: (Re)developing Baltimore’s “tourist bubble”. City, Culture and Society, 3(3), 209-218.
Friedman, M.T., & van Ingen, C. (2011). Bodies in space: Spatializing physical cultural studies. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28 (1), 85-105. Friedman, M.T. (2010). “The transparency of democracy”: The production of Washington’s Nationals Park as a late capitalist space. Sociology of Sport Journal, 27(4), 327-350.
Friedman, M.T., & Silk, M. (2005). Expressing Fenway: Managing and marketing heritage within the global sports marketplace. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 1(1/2), 37-55.
Friedman, M.T., & Mason, D.S. (2005). Stakeholder management and the public subsidization of Nashville's Coliseum. Journal of Urban Affairs, 27(1), 93-118.
Friedman, M.T., Andrews, D.L., & Silk, M. (2004). Sport and the facade of redevelopment in the postindustrial city. Sociology of Sport Journal, 21(2), 119-139.