Sean Seiler, Ph.D.

Educational Credentials

• Ph.D., Sport Management and Policy, The University of Georgia
• M.A., Anthropology, Georgia State University
• B.S., Anthropology, Kennesaw State University

Courses Taught

• SLM 276 Current Issues in Sport
• SLM 279 Race, Nation, and Sport
• SLM 378 Sport, Power, and Inequity

Research Interests

• Urban Anthropology
• Qualitative Methods
• Post-Qualitative Inquiry
• Philosophy of Physical Culture

Select Publications

• Ghaffarisadr, S., Sareban, F., & Seiler, S., (2025). An Investigation into the Network Capability of Sports Boards: A Business Approach. Sport Business Journal, 5(2).
• Seiler, S. & Baker, T. (2025). A ‘City too Busy to Care’: Historic Resource Policy, the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the Production of Space. Fordham Urban Law Journal, 52(3), 531-565.
• Seiler, S. & Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2024). Decolonizing Sport for Development Through Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy. Journal of Sport for Development, 11(1).
• Seiler, S., & Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2023). Flexible Positional Superiority of Whiteness in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: A Foucauldian Genealogy on the Atlanta Beat, 2001–2003. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 40(8), 719-749.
• Seiler, S., & Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2022). The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 39(2), 210-239.