Course Information

Dr. Rochon teaches the following courses:

SLAM 101 | Introduction to Sport & Recreation Management 

SLAM 201 | Leadership Dynamics in Recreation & Sport

GSS 265 | Gender, Sexuality & Sport

GSS 365 | Advanced Gender, Sexuality & Sport

SLAM 300W | Current Issues in Recreation 

SLAM 435 | Sport Law & Governance 

Areas of Research and Specialization

Dr. Rochon is an interdisciplinary educator and researcher in sport and physical cultural studies. Their areas of specialization are in Race and Black/African Diaspora in Sport, Physical Cultural Studies, Sport Management, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Grassroots Community Sport and Qualitative Methodologies. 

Education

PhD in Sport Management with concentrations in Sport Media and Culture Studies, Florida State University.

Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction, University of South Florida.

Bachelor of Science in Sport and Leisure Management, Eastern Connecticut State University.

Books

Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture

Selected Publications

Rochon, R. & Dickerson, N., (Forthcoming). Can We Live?: Our Moving Bodies cultivating and nourishing a "home" in and through the Wake, Journal of Emerging Sport Studies.

McGarry, J. E., Rochon, R., Mala, J., & Ebron, K. A. (2025). Critical Approaches to Youth Development Through Sport: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Youth, 5(3), 93.

Bannoura, D., Dreidi, O., O’Keeffe, R., Macauley, M.D., McCullough, K., Pijetlovic, K., Chen, C., Rochon, R., & Sailofsky, D.  (2025). Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza. Sociology of Sport Journal, 42(4), 459 – 469.

Baeth, A., Posbergh, A., Bekker, S., & Rochon, R. (2025). Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion. Sociology of Sport Journal, 42(3), 245-252.

Antoine, J. R., Jacobs, S., Mwaniki, M., Elgoharry, Y., Nachman, J., Chen, C., Rochon, R., & Weems, A. (2025). Sport and Black/African-Palestinian transnational solidarity: A conversation. World Leisure Journal.

Newman, J.I., Chahardovali, T., Rochon, R., Dai, S. (2025). Qualitative Research, Scholarly “Performance”, and the Rationalization of Inquiry in Sport & Physical Culture. In Giardina, M. D., Donnelly, M.K, & Waldman, D.J. (Eds), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Culture.

Posbergh, A., Baeth, A., Bekker, S., & Rochon, R. (2024). Sports and the limits of the binary: An Introduction. Sociology of Sport Journal, 1, 1-7.

Bell, D., Rahman, S., & Rochon, R. (2023). (Trans) forming fitness: Intersectionality as a framework for resistance and collective action. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5, 944782.

Professional Affiliations

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)