Nefertiti A. Walker
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Equity, & Professor
Education
Academic Appointments
Recent Honors / Awards
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
- Sport Policy
- Sport Leadership
- DEI in Business
- Leadership and Organizational Behavior
- Sport Organization Behavior and Development
- DEI in Business
- 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