DANIELLE DEROSA

Educational Background:
M.S. – Sport Management, University of Connecticut
B.A. – Communication Sciences, University of Connecticut

Areas of Expertise: Community Engagement, Sport Based Youth Development, Partnership Development, Student Development

Currently Teaching:
EDLR 3550 – Career Development in Sport Management
EDLR 5105 – Structured Group Dialogue in Student Affairs

Danielle DeRosa is a Clinical Instructor in the Sport Management Program.  In this role she oversees the instruction of the experiential learning components of the Sport Management undergraduate program.  This work includes employer and alumni outreach and opportunities to foster partnerships that ensure high quality learning experiences for Sport Management Program students. 

Danielle also serves as an Assistant Director for Husky Sport, a campus-community partnership. Through this partnership, Husky Sport facilitates the opportunity for UConn staff and students to engage in a collaborative relationship with community and campus partners to develop, deliver, and evaluate youth development programs that are aimed at enhancing exposure, knowledge, and opportunity to engage in physical activity, healthy nutrition, and academic achievement, as part of positive lifestyles and opportunities.

Prior to these roles, Danielle has worked with campus partners to develop and sustain procedures and culture to support students’ experience.  This work is evidenced in Danielle’s involvement with the Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) program at UConn, as well as her work in the Global Training and Development Institute (GTDI), an office of UConn Global Affairs. This work allowed Danielle to engage with college students and young professionals both at the University of Connecticut, and from around the world. Danielle oversaw collaborations with international institutions including Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong), The University for Peace (Costa Rica), and The University of the Western Cape (South Africa).  

Previously, Danielle worked with the Office of First Year Programs and Learning Communities and the Counseling Program for Intercollegiate Athletes, in these roles Danielle provided structured academic support to students as they navigated the transition to the University of Connecticut. 

Danielle's faculty bio.

JUSTIN EVANOVICH

Educational Background:
Ph.D. – Sport Management, The University of Connecticut
M.A. – Sport Management, The University of Connecticut
B.A. – Sociology, The University of Connecticut

Areas of Expertise: Sport Management, Critical Social Theory, Sport Based Youth Development, Service Learning

Currently Teaching: 

Dr. Justin Evanovich currently serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership within the Neag School of Education and as the Managing Director of Husky Sport. Husky Sport provides UConn staff and students a unique and intentional structure for collaboration with community and campus partners to plan, deliver, and evaluate youth development programs aimed at enhancing exposure, knowledge, and access to sport and physical activity, healthy nutrition, and academic achievement, as part of positive lifestyles and opportunities.

Justin teaches courses associated with sport, community, education, critical social theory, and service learning. Research has focused on individual level impacts of sport-based development programs with youth and the reciprocal impact of involvement with college student participants.

Learn more about Dr. Evanovich, by visiting his faculty bio.

DOUG GLANVILLE

Educational Background: B.S.E. in Systems Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Expertise: Retired Major League Baseball, Baseball Analysis, Multi-Media Journalism, Social issues in Sport, Sports Activism, Policy and the Media, Gender and Race in Sport, Community Engagement through Sport, Teaching lessons through Sport

Currently Teaching:
Developing an online Sport, Race, and the Media Course
EDLR 3300W – Sport in Society

Doug Glanville brings a distinct perspective to his teaching on the subject of sports, activism, policy, and the media. He is uniquely capable of offering insight about baseball and how the sport translates to everyday life. Raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Glanville graduated from the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the first African American Ivy League graduate to play Major League Baseball. After retiring from a nine-year career in the MLB, Glanville began sharing his experience and knowledge through his writing, speaking, and sports commentary. He balances his broadcasting career at NBC Sports Chicago and ESPN with his goals as a teacher and advisor. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View. His work appears in The Athletic, The New York Times, and NBC Sports Chicago, as well as other publications. He also co-hosts the baseball podcast, Starkville, where he and co-host Jayson Stark share baseball stories and trivia as they challenge their audience to rethink conventional wisdom.

This fall, Glanville will be advising students and developing an online course on sport, race, and the media modeled after the courses he has taught at UPenn and Yale. Additionally, he will teach the undergraduate Sport in Society course in the spring.

Doug's faculty bio.

JESSE MALA

Educational Background:
Ph.D. – Sport Management, The University of Connecticut
M.S. – Exercise Science, The University of Connecticut
B.S. – Physical Education, Central Connecticut State University

Areas of Expertise: 

Currently Teaching: 

Dr. Jesse Mala will be advising master’s students, supporting master’s interns during the fall, and will begin teaching in the spring with the graduate courses Sport in Society and Marketing. He also has several research projects from his dissertation and his time with Husky Sport that he will be completing this fall. Those research interests include: The role of physical activity and sport participation in fostering cognitive development and stress regulation among youth in poverty. Jesse returns to UConn after a year at FitKids, a Champion School in Phoenix where he gained experience as a coach and sport scientist. Jesse graduated from our doctoral program in 2018. He also has a master’s degree from UConn in Exercise Science.

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JENNIFER MCGARRY

Educational Background:
Ph.D. – Sport Management, The Ohio State University
M.A. – English, Morehead State University
B.A. – English, University of Notre Dame

Areas of Expertise: Sport Management, Gender and Race in Sport, Sport Based Youth Development, Qualitative Research, Youth Physical Activity

Currently Teaching: 
On sabbatical, 2019-2020

Dr. McGarry has been a part of the Sport Management program at the University of Connecticut since January of 2002 after spending eight years as an athletic administrator and volleyball coach at Kenyon College in Ohio, including two years as athletic director. Dr. McGarry’s research line has focused primarily on barriers and supports for women and those from marginalized ethnic and socio-economic groups. Dr. McGarry is also the program founder and director of Husky Sport. Husky Sport has both a program and a research component. The program provides mentors (UConn students) as planners of sessions at community sites in Hartford, CT that emphasize exposure and access to sport and physical activity, and advocate good nutrition and healthy lifestyles. Research has focused on individual level impacts of such a program on pre-adolescents and the reciprocal impact of involvement on the college student mentors. Additionally, current research is focused on the organizational or socio-cultural level impacts of campus-community partnerships. For more see www.huskysport.uconn.edu

Learn more about Dr. McGarry: video profile and faculty bio.

MANSOUR NDIAYE

Educational Background:
Ph.D. – Sport Management, University of Connecticut
M.A. – Kinesiology, University of Connecticut
B.S. – Management Information Systems, University of Connecticut
B.A.- Economics & French, University of Connecticut

Areas of Expertise: Leadership and Diversity in Sports, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Justice

Currently Teaching:
EDLR 5325 - Sport Law

Dr. Mansour Ndiaye has been teaching for the program as an adjunct faculty since the 2011-2012 academic year. He earned his Ph.D. in Sport Management at UConn and currently serve as an Assistant Dean in the College of Liberal and Sciences.

FRANK RUSSO

Educational Background:
M.A. – Political Science (Public Administration), University of Connecticut
B.A. – History/Political Science, Saint Michael’s College

Areas of Expertise: All aspects of the management, marketing and operation of public assembly facilities; development and financing of such facilities; event booking and promotion; event production and sponsorships; negotiating prime tenant lease agreements with various professional and university teams; and enhancing the economic impact of public assembly facilities on the communities they serve

Currently Teaching:
EDLR 5385 - Sport Facility and Event Management

Accolades & Leadership Positions:
International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM)
Chair of the Body of Knowledge Task Force
Chair of the Board of Education
Chair of the Board of Regents for the IAVM School for Public Assembly Venue Management
Co-Author of the Industry’s first text book: Public Assembly Facility Management: Principles and Practices

Frank Russo joined the Sport Management Faculty in January of 2019. After earning his MA from UConn he held various governmental positions with the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford before becoming Executive Director of the Hartford Civic Center and then the President of Monitor (Event) Productions. For the past 30 years he has held executive positions with private facility management firms and he is currently EVP of Business Development and Client Relations for Spectra Venue Management of Philadelphia, the company the manages the now XL Center and Rentschler Field.