Ted Fay

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The Youth Olympic Games - a vehicle for world peace - Play the Game 2011 (PP Pdf.)

Reframing Sport Contexts: Labeling, Identities, and Social Justice - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.)

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Ted Fay, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair 
Sport Management Department 
SUNY Cortland
Senior Research Fellow – Sport in Society
Northeastern University


Personal & Professional Background
Dr. Fay is a Professor and Chair of the Sport Management Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.  He holds a Ph.D. in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts, a M.P.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Oregon, and a B.A. in Government from St. Lawrence University.  Dr. Fay also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University and as a strategic consultant related to the Center’s research and academic program initiatives.   He has focused much of his research in the area of policy development, governance and strategic management from a perspective of advocacy and activism related to issues surrounding diversity and social justice within sport organizations.  

Dr. Fay has an extensive background in international sport and the Olympic/Paralympic Movement.  Fay has had a varied career as an educator, activist and advocate involved in a number of human rights initiatives, environmental policy and protection campaigns and community organizing efforts nationally and internationally. He is recognized as an international expert on issues related to integration and inclusion of  persons with a disability in sport.  He was involved in the drafting of Article 30.5 of the United Nations Convention on the Human Rights for Persons with a Disability that addresses issues related to culture, leisure and sport. 

He has been an active member of a number of professional associations including the North American Society for the Study of the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), the  North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), the Sport Marketing Association (SMA), the European Association of Sport Management (EASM) and has worked with or for several national governing bodies including the US Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA), the US Biathlon Association (USBA), USA Hockey (USAH), and US Team Handball Federation (USTHF) over the span of 30 years as either a national team coach, program director, marketing and strategic consultant, or as an executive director of World Championship events in skiing, biathlon and ice hockey.  He was the Executive Director of the 1996 IIHF World Junior Ice Hockey Championships held at six locations throughout Massachusetts.