About

Zach is a PhD student and graduate teaching associate in Sport Studies at the University of Tennessee. Before Tennessee, he completed an MA in Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. His academic interests revolve primarily around religion and physical cultures in the US, and he is a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Sport and Religion at the University of Tennessee. His dissertation is an ethnographic study of Christian mixed martial arts.

Education

Ph.D. Student, Sport Studies—University of Tennessee

M.A., Comparative Religion—Western Michigan University

M.S., Sport Science—United States Sports Academy

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Smith, Z.T. (2019). A student and post-qualitative inquiry walk into a bar: Syncretistic methodology and practices in becoming-researcher. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-12. DOI:10.1177/1609406919852001


     

    Smith, Z.T. (2019). Re-telling ‘the story so far’: Reconsidering the sport and spirituality field in light of the New Age. Quest. Advanced online publication. DOI:10.1080/00336297.2019.1578670


     

    Smith, Z. (2019). Can sport be regarded as ‘cultural liturgy’? Recognizing the significance of the liturgical frame for the social scientific study of sport. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 22(2), 224-238. DOI:10.1080/17430437.2017.1360568. [Advanced online publication in 2017].


     

    Welch, N., Siegle, J., Smith, Z.T., Hardin, R. (2019). Making herstory: Cherokee women’s stickball. Annals of Leisure Research. DOI:10.1080/11745398.2019.1652104 [Advanced online publication].

    Baker, M. K., Graham, J. A., Smith, A., & Smith, Z.T. (2019). Sport specific free play, youth football/soccer program recommendations from around the world. International Journal of Sport Coaching, 6, 234-243. DOI:10.1123/iscj.2019-0044


     

    Smith, Z.T., & Waller, S. (Accepted). Surveying the landscape of theories and frameworks used in the study of sport and religion: An interdisciplinary approach. Journal of the Christian Society for Kinesiology and Leisure Studies.


     

    Smith, Z.T., & Smith, R.E. (Accepted). Supporter ownership as entrepreneurship in American Soccer. Journal of Applied Sports Management, 11(3), 11-20.

    Memberships

    American Academy of Religion

    North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

    North American Association for the Study of Religion

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