Jo Ann Buysse

Jo Ann Buysse is the Director of Sport Studies in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota. She teaches undergraduate courses in sport sociology, sport ethics, senior research seminar and graduate courses on women in sport and leisure and global sport issues. Her research interests include media constructions of gender and race in sport, and power and decision-making in intercollegiate athletics. A former college coach and athletic director, Buysse has been inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Southwest Minnesota State University (as an athlete) and at the University of Montana-Montana Tech (as a basketball coach). She received her Ph.D in Kinesiology with a minor in Advanced Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1992.