Education
Ph.D.: Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, 2025 (Sport Management)
M.S.: Jacksonville University Jacksonville, Florida, 2017 (Organizational Leadership )
B.S.: High Point University High Point, North Carolina, 2013 (Sport Management, Business Administration)
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Williamson-Gourley, M., Ternes, N. (2024). Distasteful yet protected? ‘Russia!’ & fan code of conduct policies in U.S. college athletics. International Journal of Sport Politics & Policy, 17 (1) , 147-153More Information
Ternes, N., & Williamson-Gourley, M. (2025). You can’t cheer that: NCAA Division I FBS stadium speech policies and the first amendment. Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, 35 (2) , 166-186More Information
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Coakley, J., Chepyator-Thomson, J., Rochon, R., Yusuf, A., Sonkeng, K., Williamson-Gourley, M. (2023. ) Gender, race, class, (dis)ability: The social dynamics in informal sport settings .Panelist at the Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, New Orleans, Louisiana. Conference. . Level:National
Paper Presentations
Posbergh, A., Williamson-Gourley, M. (2024. ) The banned “social drug”: Tracing marijuana’s inclusion on the International Olympic Committee’s banned substance list. .Chicago, Illinois. Conference. Level:National
Williamson-Gourley, M., Xue, H., Du, J., Newman, J. I (2023. ) Bourgeois or Citoyen? A Machine Learning Approach to the Political Role of Professional Sport Leagues and Athlete Activism .Montreal, Canada. Conference. Level:International
Williamson-Gourley, M. (2022. ) Pickup Basketball: Black Women, Black Culture in Black (Sporting) Spaces .Las Vegas, Nevada. Conference. Level:National