
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
Corwin, Zoë B. and Williams, Neftalie
Switching Stance: What Higher Education Can Learn from Skateboarders about Well-Being
Academic Leader (published online: 23 January 2023)
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."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.
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