a bit about me...
I am writer, teacher, and a speaker. I currently serve as a full professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico.
I am the author of A Beautiful Shame: One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports (2025), The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the Modern Athlete (2019), and When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime (2014). In the classroom, I teach UNM Honors courses such as The Legacy of Failure and The Strenuous Life and The History of Sports in America. While I love teaching, you can certainly count me among those academics trying to figure out what to do about reading and writing assignments now that we live in the AI generation! My wife Rachael and I live in Corrales, New Mexico with our three children - Carter, Tyler, and Kate. We also have a completely unruly 1 year old lab named Phoebe. In my free time, I enjoy shooting hoops, tinkering with my always failing sprinkler system, sitting in the shade, and watching whatever game happens to be on. I'm currently at work on a new book about the longevity revolution occurring in American sports. |