Jared Bahir Browsh

Jared Bahir Browsh is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of the Critical Sports Studies Program in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Dr. Browsh is a cultural historian, commentator and author examining the political economics of sports and popular culture including the relationship between culture, money, power, and identity in the United States and globally. Dr. Browsh’s recent work has examined the whitewashing of sports history and the erasure of the athletic and cultural contributions of African-Americans, women, and other historically marginalized groups and how the evolution of legal and economic policies that impact the sport and cultural industries both challenge and contribute to inequities in sport. Their upcoming publications include a chapter on cultural appropriation in the globalization efforts by the National Football League, a book on the impact of legalized sports gambling in the United States, and projects examining the use of animation in sports marketing, and the history of basketball clubs as a source of ethnic identity and community.

Selected Publications

Books

Sports Gambling in America: Examining the Facts, Bloomsbury Academic, Fall 2025

Hanna Barbera: A History, McFarland, 2018

Edited Volumes

The African American Experience in Sport: A Reader, Cognella, 2023

Introduction to Critical Sports Studies, A Document Reader, Second Edition co-edited with Dr. Nicholas Villanueva Jr., 2024

Chapters

“An American Footballer in London: Globalization and the NFL,” from How to Watch Sports, edited by Adam Rugg, NYU Press, 2024

Capitalization in a Half-Shell: Multimedia, Cross-Demographic Marketing of Animated Content from Mickey to Michelangelo from Animated Mischief: Essays on Subversiveness in Cartoons Since 1987 edited by Brian N. Duchaney and David S. Silverman, McFarland, 2023

“Taking Our Ball and Staying Home: Nationalistic Exceptionalism and Cultural Imperialism in U.S. Sports Coverage and Leagues” from The Athlete as National Symbol: Critical Essays on Sports in the International Arena, edited by Nicholas Villanueva Jr., McFarland, 2020

Articles

For most recently published articles, see "News About Jared" above.

Sports gambling creates a windfall, but raises questions of integrity – here are three lessons from historic sports-betting scandals, The Conversation, May 2024

40 years ago, the Supreme Court broke the NCAA’s lock on TV revenue, reshaping college sports to this day, The Conversation, March 2024

A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain, The Conversation, November 2023

“‘Number One in the Hood, G:’ How Hip Hop Helped Adult Swim Get to the Top,” Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 34 No. 2 (2019)

Book Reviews

Review of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA, Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Bloomsbury Press (2023), H-France, 2024

Review of Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Erik Sherman, University of Nebraska Press (2023) New Mexico Historical Review, 2024

Review of Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America, Michael Z. Newman, MIT Press (2018), Lateral, 2017

Selected Podcasts & Interviews

Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder, Vulnerabilities Emerge Six Years After Sports Gambling Legalization-Academic Minute, July 24, 2024

“Remembering 715, A Number that Transcended Baseball,” University of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, 2024

Episode 135 - The Flintstones (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera, 1960-1966), Fantasy/Animation, 2024

“Jetsons,” Michael Smerconish Show, August 3, 2022

“What ‘The Jetsons’ predicted right — and wrong — about the future,” New York Post, July 31, 2022