Executive Director of Academic Affairs, Associate Professor, KRSS
Biography
As Executive Director of Academic Affairs, Lars is responsible for overseeing the curricular review and timetable processes, as well as providing guidance to the Director of Advising and Director of Teaching Development.
Education
| Undergraduate | Exercise Science | Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| MA | Cultural Studies in Sport | The Ohio State University (1998) |
| PhD | Cultural Studies in Sport | The Ohio State University (2005) |
Professional Service
Dzikus is a member of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). He has published in Sportwissenschaft, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and The Sport Psychologist, among others. Dzikus serves as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies. He has received the Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2018), the department’s George F. Brady Teaching Award (2012), was a finalist for the Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2008), and received the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the American Association for Higher Education (2005). Dzikus has assisted German professional soccer teams visiting the United States as a translator and liaison. The teams included Hamburg SV, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Nürnberg, and the women’s national team of Germany.
Publications
Lim, S., Dzikus, L., Lee, K.-M., & Lee, H.-G. (2021). A critical overview on the characteristics of early Korean sociology of sport. International Journal of Human Movement Science, 15(1), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.23949/ijhms.2021.04.15.1.3
Dubinsky, Y., & Dzikus, L. (2021). The 1972 Munich Massacre and Israel’s country image. Journal of Olympic Studies, 2(1), 90-109. https://doi.org/10.5406/jofolympstud.2.1.0090
Love, A., Deeb, A., & Dzikus, L. (2021). “A Breath of Fresh Air”: Media framing of a unique NFL draft pick. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38(2), 178-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0078.
Picariello, M., & Dzikus, L. (2020). “Off the court”: Numeric gender representation in Italian women’s basketball. Eracle Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, 3, 40-56.
Hardin, R., Waller, S. N., & Dzikus, L. (2019). NCAA athletic directors’ perceptions of sports chaplains: An exploratory study of the value of collegiate sports chaplains in the United States. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 13(4), 281-296.
Dubinsky, Y., & Dzikus, L. (2019) Israel’s strategic and tactical use of the 2017 Maccabiah Games for nation branding and public diplomacy. Journal of Applied Sport Management. 11, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.18666/JASM-2019-V11-I1-9170
Dubinsky, Y., & Dzikus, L. (2018). The Impact of Operation Protective Edge on Israel’s sports diplomacy. The International Journal of Sport and Society, 10(1), 21-37. doi.org/10.18848/2152-7857/CGP/v10i01/21-37
Dubinsky, Y., & Dzikus, L. (2018). Israel’s country image in the 2016 Olympic Games. Journal of Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. doi: 10.1057/s41254-018-0105-y
Taylor, E. A., Johnson, A. J., Hardin, R., & Dzikus, L. (2018). Kinesiology Students’ Perceptions of Ambivalent Sexism. NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education, 11(3), 233-246.doi: 10.1080/19407882.2017.1423080
Dzikus L., & Dubinsky Y. (2018). Virtual Patriot Games: American Football in the Times, 1888-1910. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34, 1179-1197. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2018.1436542
Dzikus L., & Dubinsky Y. (2018). Virtual Patriot Games: American Football in the Times, 1888-1910. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34, 1179-1197. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2018.1436542
Dzikus, L. (2017). [Review of the book Living out of bounds: The male athlete’s everyday life, by Steven J. Overman]. Journal of Sport History, 44, 494-495.
Dzikus, L., Smith, A. B. & Evans, J. W. (2017). “What it means to be a ‘Lady’”: Defending the “Lady Vols” nickname and logo. Sociology of Sport Journal. 34(1), 35-45.
Dzikus L. (2017). Amerika: The Super Bowl and German imagination. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34(1-2), 81-100.
PUBLICATIONS IN EDITED VOLUMES
Dzikus, L. (2019). American football in Europe. In G. Gems and G. Pfister (Eds.), Touchdown: An American obsession (pp. 273-290). Berkshire Publishing.
Dzikus, L., & Love, A. (2019). The Globalization of American sport. In B. Austin and P. Grundy (Eds.), Teaching U.S. history through sports (pp. 64-74). University of Wisconsin Press.
Fisher, L. A., & Dzikus, L. (2017). Bullying in sport and performance psychology. In E. Acevedo (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology (pp. 1-24). Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.169
Waller, S., Hardin, R., Dzikus, L., & Bemiller, J. (2016). Finding the right key: An examination of global sport chaplaincy credentialing models and their implications for credentialing sport chaplains in the U.S. In A. Parker, N. J. Watson, and J. B. White (Eds.). Sport chaplaincy: Trends, issues and debates (pp. 146-157). Ashgate.
Wrisberg, C. A., & Dzikus, L. (2016). Sport psychology in the United States: A historical examination of two persistent tensions. In R. J. Schinke, K. R. McGannon & B. Smith (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of sport psychology (pp. 20-35). Routledge