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Cam Mallett
History and Philosophy of Sport
Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Mark Dyreson)
Summary Statement

Cam researches college sport at the Division III level and what identifies the historical and cultural forces that motivate athletes to compete in the NCAA's largest division, even without the athletic scholarships and prestige of "big time" college sport.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Education
  • M.S. Kinesiology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2022
  • B.A. History and Secondary Education, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, 2020
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Office Address
274 Recreation Building
378 North Burrows Road
University Park, PA 16802
Professional Experience

Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, Penn State University, 2021-Present

Grants and Research Projects
  • University Graduate Fellow, Penn State University, 2020-2021
  • Humanities Research for the Public Good, Council of Independent Colleges, 2019, $10,000, “Civil Rights and Racial Harmony: Rome, Georgia in the 1960s.”
Publications
  • Mallett, Cam. “Branding Olympic Idealism: The Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association’s Commercial Sojourn in Hattiesburg, Mississippi Before the 1996 Atlanta Games.” Journal of Olympic Studies. (Accepted for Fall 2024)
  • Mallett, Cam. “Conveniently Forgotten: Cultural Memory, Football Integration, and the 'First' Black Athletes at the University of Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly. (Accepted for Summer 2024)
  • Mallett, Cam. “Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice: The Atlanta Daily World’s Black Southern Sportswriter on the Tension Between Integration and HBCU Sport.” International Journal of the History of Sport, 40, no. 15 (2023): 1406-1424.
  • Diaz, Brett, Marcus Campos, Matija Škerbić, Cam Mallett, and Francisco Javier Lopez Frias. “(In)Justice on Ice: Valieva and International Sport Governing Bodies’ Justice Duties Toward Underage Athletes.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 17, no. 1 (2023): 70-84.
  • Mallett, Cam. “The 100% Wrong Club: Strategic Congregations, Black College Football, and the History of Atlanta’s Biggest Black Booster Club.” Journal of Sport History, 49, no. 3 (2022): 203-220. 
  • Mallett, Cam, and Michelle M. Sikes. “Paralympic Protest: Athlete Activism, Apartheid South Africa, and the International Sport Boycott in British Para Sport, 1979–1981.” Sport in History 42, no. 3 (2022): 347–365. 
  • Mallett, Cam, and Michelle M. Sikes. “Paralympic Protest: Athlete Activism, Apartheid South Africa, and the International Sport Boycott in British Para Sport, 1979–1981.” Sport in History, August 8, 2021, 1–19.
  • Mallett, Cam, and Mark Dyreson. “Norwood H. ‘Barney’ Ewell.” In Centre County Encyclopedia of History & Culture, edited by Ford Risley and Lee Stout. Centre County Historical Society, June 2021.
Additional Information

Awards

  • Gigliola Gori Student Essay Award, International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, 2024
  • College of Health and Human Development Rapid Research Contest Winner, 2024 
  • Robert K. Barney Graduate Essay Prize, Center for Socio-Cultural Sport and Olympic Research, 2023
  • Recipient of Graduate Student Essay Award from the North American Society for Sport History, 2022