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Nefertiti A. Walker

Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Equity, & Professor

Sport Management

Education

PhD, University of Florida, 2011
MBA, Stetson University, 2006
BA, Stetson University, 2005

Academic Appointments

Professor, Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, Isenberg School of Management, 2022-present
Presidential Advisor for Equity and Inclusion, University of Massachusetts (System Appointment), 2022-present
Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, UMass Amherst, 2021-present
Interim Associate Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, UMass Amherst, 2019-2021
Associate Dean for an Inclusive Organization, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019-2021
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017-2022
Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, 2017-2018
PhD Area Coordinator for Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, UMass Amherst, 2016-2017
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011-2017

Recent Honors / Awards

NASSM Joy DeSensi Diversity Award for Inclusive Excellence Award, 2022
North American Society for Sport Management, Research Fellow, 2019
Isenberg School of Management Research Excellence Award, 2019
Isenberg School of Management Teaching Excellence Award, 2018

Research Interests

Organizational Diversity and inclusion
Organizational Inequity and Equity
Gendered Organizations
Racialized Organizations
Organizational Culture

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate
  • Sport Policy
  • Sport Leadership
  • DEI in Business
Masters
  • Leadership and Organizational Behavior
  • Sport Organization Behavior and Development
  • DEI in Business
Doctoral
  • Sport Organizational Behavior/ Organizational Theory

Selected Publications

Hindman, L., Walker, N. A., Berri, D., & Paulson, C. (2022). Firing Discrimination of Coaches in the Most ‘Inclusive’ League? Evidence from the Women’s National Basketball Association. International Journal of Sport Management.
 
Walker, N. A., Allred, T., & Berri, D. (2022). Could more dunking really help the WNBA? International Journal of Sport Finance.
 
Singer. J., Agyemang, K. J. A., Chen. C., Walker, N. A., & Melton, N. (2022). What is Blackness to Sport Management? The Manifestation of Anti-Black Racism in the Field. Journal of Sport Management, 36(3), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2021-0232  
 
Seifried, C., Soebbing, B., Agyemang, K. J. A., & Walker, N. A. (2021). Sport Management and Business Schools: A Growing Partnership in a Changing Higher Education Environment. International Journal of Management Education, 19(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100529  
 
Cunningham, G. B., Wicker, P., & Walker, N. A. (2021). Gender and Racial Bias in Sport Organizations. Frontiers in Sociology, Section Work, Employment and Organizations. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.684066 
 
Hindman, L. & Walker, N. A. (2021). Feminine and sexy: A critical discourse analysis of gender ideology and professional cheerleading. Journal of Sport Management, 36(2), 130-144. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2020-0222
 
Hindman, L., Walker, N. A., & Agyemang, K. J. A. (2021). Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19. European Sport Management Quarterly.  https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2021.1879191
 
Walker, N., Agyemang, K. J. A., Washington, M., Hindman, L., & MacCharles, J. (2021). Getting an internship in the sport industry: The institutionalization of privilege. Sport Management Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/smej.2019-0061
 
Wells, J. E., Sartore-Baldwin, M., Walker, N. A., & Gray, C. E., (2021). Stigma consciousness and work outcomes of Senior Woman Administrators: The Role of Workplace Incivility. Journal of Sport Management, 35(1), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2019-0422
 
Hindman, L. & Walker, N. A. (2020). Sexism in professional sports: How women managers experience and survive sport organizational culture. Journal of Sport Management, 34(1), 64-76. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2018-0331