Marta Mack

Marta N. Mack, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at the University of Kentucky, affiliated with the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion (KHP) and the Department of African American and Africana Studies (AAAS). She specializes in Sport Leadership and contributes to academic discourse through her research at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in sport cultures.

• Ph.D. in Cultural Studies of Sport (University of Iowa)
• MS in Sport Administration (University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse)
• Bachelor’s degree from South Carolina State University (HBCU)

Her research focuses on disrupting dominant narratives about the marginalization of Black women in sport through a Black feminist theoretical lens. She examines how Black women assert their humanity in systems that reproduce anti-blackness and patriarchy, particularly in sport-related institutions like media, education, and politics.

Dr. Mack teaches graduate and undergraduate courses such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations, Current Issues in Sport Leadership, and Higher Education in Collegiate Athletics. Her forthcoming book, The Unruly Black Lady of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley, Performance and Cultural Belonging, expands on her scholarship.