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
- Seiler, S. (2026). A “Sports Capital of the World” for Whom?: Economy of Dispossession in Atlanta, 1949–2026. Sport History Review, 1(aop), 1-22.
- Anderson, B. A., Seiler, S., & Baker, T. (2026). Pull Factors of College Selection: The Role of Club Sports in Student Enrollment Decisions. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 19(1), 1.
- Ghaffari Sadr, S. I., Nobakhat, F., Bahari, N., & Seiler, S. (2025). An Investigation into the Networking Capability of Sports Boards: A Business Approach. Sports Business Journal, 5(2), 37-57.
- Seiler, S., & Baker III, T. (2024). A" City Too Busy to Care": Historic Resource Policy, the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the Production of Space. Fordham Urb. LJ, 52, 531.
- 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. (2023). Decolonizing sport for development through integration of Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy. Journal of Sport for Development, 11(1), 1-6.
- 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.
- Seiler, S. (2022). Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity. Sociology of Sport Journal, 39(4), 412-413.