Rate My Professor Steve Jackson

Jackson has served as past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) and Research Committee 27 of the International Sociological Association (ISA) from 2008 to 2015. He currently holds positions as Associate Dean (Research) and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics at the University of Otago, and has been a member of New Zealand's Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) panel, as well as a grant reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, South African National Research Foundation, and World Anti-Doping Agency. Among his honors are the New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence and the Lifetime Honorary Member Award from ISSA, presented in 2025 at the 60th ISSA World Congress in Korea for his exemplary contributions to socio-cultural inquiry in sport. Key publications include the edited volume CrossFit: Commodity, Community, Contested Terrain (2025, with M.C. Dawson), The Contested Terrain of the New Zealand All Blacks: Rugby, Commerce, and Cultural Politics in the Age of Globalisation (2013, with J. Scherer), and Globalization, Sport and Corporate Nationalism (2010). He is Corresponding Editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and serves on editorial boards for Communication & Sport, Sociology of Sport Journal, and others. His scholarship has garnered over 5,000 citations, influencing sport sociology globally.