female surfer at sunset and male skateboarder

Faculty Publications

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

"Appropriating Surfing and the Politics of Indigenous Authenticity." The Critical Surf Studies Reader. Eds. Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Durham: Duke University Press, 2017: 214-232.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Krista Comer. “Being Good Relatives: A Story of Indigenous and Settler Surfeminist Collaboration and Legislated Land Acknowledgments.” Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025.

 

David Kamper

"Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures in Indian Country." (June 2025. University of Nebraska Press).

"Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup." (April 2025. University of Washington Press). Co-edited with Lydia Heberling and Jess Ponting.

Kamper, David and Williams, Neftalie. 2025. "Skateboarders of color and the (co-)emergence of the DIY ethos in skateboarding."
Sport in Society 28(2), 316–331. Taylor and Francis

 

Michael James Roberts

"The Critical Theory of Surfing and Skateboarding" (Under contract with Routledge)

"Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing." (July 2024. San Diego State University Press). Co-edited with Kristin Lawler and David Cline.

Roberts, Michael, and Lawler, Kristin. 2024. “General Introduction to Special Issue on Surfing and Skateboarding.” Sport In Society 28 (2): 167-173. 

Roberts, Michael, and Lawler, Kristin. 2024. “Heroic Idleness: Class Matters in the History of Surfing.” Sport In Society 28 (2): 195-219.

Roberts, Michael and Ponting, Jess. (2020). “Waves of Simulation: Arguing Authenticity in an Era of Surfing the Hyperreal,” The International Review for the Sociology of Sport 55 (2): 229-245. 

Roberts, Michael and Lawler, Kristin. (2024). “Introduction,” in "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State University Press).

Roberts, Michael and Lawler, Kristin. (2024). “Interventions in the Social Construction of Space and Time: What’s at Stake in the Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing,” in "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State University Press).

Lawler, Kristin and Roberts, Michael. (2024). “Hallelujah I’m a Bum: The Anti-Work Ethic in Surfer-Wobbly Countercultures,” "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State University Press).

Review of "Skateboarding and the Senses" by Sander Hölsgens and Brian Glenney. Online, March 25, 2025: idrottsforum.org: A Nordic Sport Science Forum – Making Sense of Sports. Published by Malmö University. 

Review of "Waiki’ki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture" by Patrick Moser. Online, December 16, 2024: idrottsforum.org: A Nordic Sport Science Forum – Making Sense of Sports. Published by Malmö University. 

Review of "Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers," by Ugo Corte in Contemporary Sociology 53: 1, January 2024.

 

Neftalie Williams

Kamper, David and Williams, Neftalie. "Skateboarders of color and the (co-)emergence of the DIY ethos in skateboarding." 2025. Sport in Society 28(2), 316–331. Taylor and Francis

Thorpe, Holly; Booth, Douglas; Frizzell, Molly; Puddle, Damien; Williams, Neftalie; and Wheaton, Belinda. "Action Sports and the Olympic Games: From Tokyo, to Paris, Los Angeles and Beyond." (Published online: 11 Jan 2024)
Journal of Olympic Studies 5 (1). The University of Illinois Press.

Williams, Neftalie. "Before the Gold: Connecting aspirations, activism, and BIPOC excellence through Olympic skateboarding." (2022) Journal of Olympic Studies 3 (1): 4–27. The University of Illinois Press

Williams, Neftalie "Black & Brown Lives, Big City: Exploring the Legacy of Race, Space and Skateboarding in the City of Angels." LA8020, Edited by Namik Mačkić; Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc University)

Williams, Neftalie. "Exposing for the shade: Skateboarding, Gordon Parks, and me." (2022)
Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding (2022) Edited by Betsy Gordon, Jane Gordon; Smithsonian Books

Corwin, Zoë B.; Maruco, Tattiya; Williams, Neftalie;  Reichardt, Robert; Romero-Morales, Maria;  Rocha, Christine; and Astiazaran, Constanza. "Beyond the Board: Findings from the field." 2020.
University of Southern California