Course Information

Introduction to Sport & Recreation Management 

Leadership Dynamics in Recreation & Sport

Gender, Sexuality & Sport

Advanced Gender, Sexuality & Sport

Current Issues in Recreation (W course)

Sport Law & Governance 

Areas of Research and Specialization

Dr. Rochon is an interdisciplinary educator and researcher in sport, physical cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Their areas of specialization are Black/African Diaspora in Sport, Queer Studies, Political Economy, Pedagogical Interventions in Sport Management, and Qualitative Methodologies. 

Education 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sport Management, University of Connecticut.

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

M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, University of South Florida.

B.S., 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., (2026). Can We Live?: Our Moving Bodies cultivating and nourishing a "home" in and through the Wake, Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, 12.

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)