Joel Nathan Rosen

Dr. Joel Nathan Rosen

Joel Nathan Rosen

Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Studies (2004)
Director, Communications and Media Studies Program (2016)

Education

  • B.S., Ohio State University (English Education)
  • M.A., University of Mississippi (Southern Studies)
  • M.A., University of Mississippi (Sociology)
  • Ph.D., University of Kent-Canterbury (Sociology)

Contact

Email: rosenj@moravian.edu
Phone: 610-625-7814 
Office: Reeves Library, Ste. 102
Personal website: www.joelnathanrosen.org

Areas of Research and/or Expertise

Media in Culture; American Popular Music (especially the blues and its related genres); Sport; Celebrity and Reputation; Moral Panics in the Media; American and African-American Culture; and the American South

Biography

Joel Nathan Rosen (Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Studies) is Director of the Communications and Media Studies major and minor at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His research is premised on the relationship between human activity and human efficacy as portrayed in media and as demonstrated through such cultural idioms as sport, music, comedy, and other areas that intersect celebrity. He is the author of The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes toward Competition (McFarland), The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos...Reconsidered (TSI Press), and From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta (Carolina Academic Press), is coeditor of and a contributor to a multi-volume series that explores the relationship between sport and celebrity (University Press of Mississippi), and has been published in such varied journals and anthologies as The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010, The Sociology of Sport Journal, The Journal of Mundane Behavior, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, The Journal of Sport History, and Media History Monographs.

Select Publications

  • The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle. Jackson, MS: (University Press of Mississippi) with Lisa Doris Alexander, Wayne State University
  • The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos… Reconsidered. Fairlawn, (TSI Press)
  • More Than Cricket and Football: International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity (University Press of Mississippi) with Maureen R. Smith, California State University, Sacramento
  • “A Critique of Self-Concept and Youth Sport Reconsidered.” Drain
  • Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar (University Press of Mississippi) with Roberta J. Newman, New York University
  • A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes (University Press of Mississippi) with David C. Ogden, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta (Carolina Academic Press)
  • Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace. Essays That Reveal the Public Slide into Disrepute of Once-Cherished Male Sport Icons. (University Press of Mississippi) with David C. Ogden, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • Reconstructing Fame: Race, Sport, and Evolving Reputations. The Redemption of Yesterday’s Villains, and What It Means for Today’s Athletes. (University Press of Mississippi) with David C. Ogden, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • The Erosion of American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes toward Competition (McFarland)
  • “Fandom, Failure, and Despair: An Introspective Look at Professional Baseball in Cleveland.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.
  • “All-Sports Radio: The Development of an Industry Niche.” Media History Monographs.