Becky Beal, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor

Sport History, Sport Sociology, Sport Philosophy

becky.beal@csueastbay.edu

• KPE 3740 Philosophical Foundations of Sport
• KPE 3750 Sport in Society
• KPE 6440 Seminar Sport in Society
• KPE 6460 Seminar Philosophy of Sport

• Sept 2008 - Associate Professor, Dept of KPE CSU-East Bay
• 1995-2008 - Professor, University of the Pacific
• 1992-1995 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University

• Ed.D., Physical Education, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, 1992
• M.A., Physical Education, University of Northern Colorado, 1987
• B.A., History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1985

• Atencio, M., Beal, B. & Wislon, C. (2009). Distinction of risk: Urban skateboarding, street habitus, and the construction of hierarchical gender relations. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, 1, 3-20
• Beal, B. (2008). Skateboarding. In M. Atkinson (ed). Battleground: Sports, 383-389. Greenwood Press
• Smith, M & Beal, B. (2007). ³¹So you can see how the other half lives¹: MTV Cribs¹ use of ³the other² in framing successful athletic masculinities.² Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 31. 103-127
• Beal, B. & Wilson, C. (2004). 'Chicks dig scars:' Transformations in the subculture of skateboarding. In B. Wheaton (Ed.), Understanding lifestyle sports: Consumption. Identity, and difference. (31-54). London: Routledge Press
• Wheaton, B. & Beal, B. (2003). 'Keeping it real': Subcultural media and the discourses of authenticity in alternative sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 38. 155-176
• Randels, G. & Beal, B. (2002). What makes a man? Religion, sport and negotiating masculine identity in the Promise Keepers, in T. Magdalinski & T. Chandler (Eds.). With God on their side: Sport in the service of religion (pp. 160-176). London: Routledge Press
• Beal, B. (2002). Symbolic interactionism and cultural studies: doing critical ethnography. In J. Maguire & K. Young (Eds.), Theory. Sport and Society (pp.353-373). London: Elsevier Science Press

• American Sociological Association
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
• Pacific Sociological Association