Joey Gawrysiak

Education

• Ph.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA
• M.Ed., University of Georgia, Athens, GA, . Major: Physical Education and Sport Studies Area of Emphasis: Sport Management
• B.S.Ed., University of Georgia, Athens, GA, . Major: Sport Studies Area of Emphasis: Communication

Teaching

Currently Teaching

• SPM 454 - Esports Business Practicum
• SPM 342 - The Business of Esports
• SPM 354 - Esports and Event Management
• SPM 200 - Selected Topics in Sport Management - Principles of E Sports

Published Scholarship

Publications

• Jenny, S.E., Gawrysiak, E. & Besombes, N., 2021. Esports.edu: An Inventory and Analysis of Global Higher Education Esports Academic Programming and Curricula. International Journal of Esports.
• Williams, D. et al., 2020. NCAA e-sports 20XX: An analysis of radical innovation adoption through firm collaboration. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing.
• Gawrysiak, J., Burton, R., Jenny, S. and Williams, D., 2020. Using Esports Efficiently to Enhance and Extend Brand Perceptions – A Literature Review. Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research, [online] 86(1), pp.1–14. https://doi.org/10.2478/pcssr-2020-0008.
• Jenny, S.E., Keiper, M.C., Taylor, B.J., Williams, D.P., Gawrysiak, J., Manning, R.D. and Tutka, P.M., 2018. eSports Venues: A New Sport Business Opportunity. Journal of Applied Sport Management, [online] 10(1), pp.34–49. https://doi.org/10.18666/jasm-2018-v10-i1-8469.
• Gawrysiak, E., 2016. E-sport: Video games as sport S. E. Klein, ed., Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Gawrysiak, E.J., Cooper, J.N. and Hawkins, B., 2013. The impact of baseball participation on the educational experiences of black student-athletes at historically black colleges and universities. Race Ethnicity and Education, [online] 18(5), pp.696–722. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2013.792795.
• Gawrysiak, E., Dwyer, B. & Burton, R., 2014. Understanding baseball consumption via in-home gaming. Journal of Applied Sport Management, 6(3), pp.76–97.
• Gawrysiak, E., 2013. “Videoball”: An exploration of possible economic implications of baseball video games. In Academy of Business Disciplines. Fort Myers, FL.
• Cooper, J.N., Gawrysiak, J. and Hawkins, B., 2012. Racial Perceptions of Baseball at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, [online] 37(2), pp.196–221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723512455921.

Presentations

• Gawrysiak, E., 2019. In Esport and Gaming Summit. The University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• Gawrysiak, E., Jenny, S.E. & Williams, D., 2018. eSports education: How sport management programs can effectively teach students to enter the field. In meeting of the College Sport Research Institute.
• Lowry, J. et al., 2018. The Paradox of Experiential Learning: The D-III Model Works. In Meeting of the College Sport Research Institute.
• Gawrysiak, E. & Evans, E., 2018. Esport and education: Where the future begins. In meeting of the Music and Gaming Educational Symposium.
• Gawrysiak, E. & Wigley, B., 2018. The next big thing(s) in esports. In meeting of the Music and Gaming Educational Symposium.
• Burton, R. & Gawrysiak, E., 2017. Using esports to efficiently enhance and extend brand perceptions. In meeting of the Sport Marketing Association.
• Gawrysiak, E. et al., 2017. What's up with esports: Should we LoL at Lol?. In meeting of the Music and Gaming Educational Symposium- Classic.
• Gawrysiak, E., 2016. Not just a game anymore: How esports and take over the world. In meeting of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand.
• Gawrysiak, E., 2016. Navigating the union of sports, business, and the law. In Sport Law & Entrepreneurship Conference. The George Washington University Law School.
• Bailey, K. et al., 2016. Education of student-athletes through global exploration: Narratives on experiential learning. In Meeting of the College Sport Research Institute.

Active Service

Professional Service

• Board of Advisors, North American Scholastic Esports Federation, Competition Committee member (active since: 2020)
• Board of Directors, The National Association of Collegiate Esports, Executive Committee member (active since: 2020)

Honors, Awards, and Recognition

• Program Director of the Year, NACE
• Undergraduate Team Advisor, CSRI
• Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Sport Business Club
• Outstanding Faculty Member, Buzzy
• Faculty Member of the Year, Shenandoah University (received: 2014)
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Memberships

• North American Society for Sport Management
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)

Licensures and Certifications

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative. Reference ID: 1353489
• Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Graduate Certificate

Recent Media Mentions:

• Anon, 2016.
• Are video games a sport? (6 November 2014)
• Anon, 2014.