Syracuse University

Gina Pauline joined the faculty at Syracuse University in 2006. Pauline brings a realm of experience within higher education as well as college athletics. Prior to coming to Syracuse University, she served as the director of undergraduate sport administration at Ball State University for four years. She has also worked at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference as well as the Big East Conference in championship management. Pauline’s expertise is in the areas of event management, pedagogy, and women in sport. With an extensive list of publications, her research has been published nationally and internationally including articles in Sport Management Education Journal, Journal of the Legal Aspects of Sport, International Journal of Volunteer Administration, the International Journal of Event Management Research, as well as trade publications. Pauline has presented at national and international conferences. For her efforts, Pauline has received the 2017 and the 2010 Falk College Faculty Member of the Year awards, as well as the 2011 Meredith Teaching Recognition Award at Syracuse University. She has served as an advocate for supporting women pursuing careers in sport management. Pauline is the co-founder of the only collegiate chapter of Women in Sport and Events (WISE) at Syracuse University. She has mentored several of her students to successful careers within the sport industry. Dr. Pauline annually assists the Sport Venue and Event Management graduate students to host a charity event. She also works with Syracuse University’s Project Advance (SUPA) team.

Lindsey Darvin (she/her/hers) joins the Department of Sport Management in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics in Fall 2022 as an assistant professor. She will teach classes in research methods and race, gender, and society in sport.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Darvin was an assistant professor from 2018-22 at the State University of New York College at Cortland, where she taught sport ethics, athlete development, and administration of sport.

Darvin’s research centers around the themes of sport industry and esport industry gender equity, with a particular focus on seeking to combat the underrepresentation of women leaders and women and girl participants at the intercollegiate and professional levels of sport and esport competition. She has published in refereed journals across a variety of academic segments in the areas of management, sociology, vocational behavior, organizational behavior, communications, and sustainability science. Her research has been featured across a variety of media platforms, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Daily News, Inside Higher Education, and SB Nation. Darvin was co-editor of a special issue in the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience (JADE), released March 2022, that focused on NCAA Division III athlete wellbeing and experience. Recently, Darvin served as an author of the Women’s Sport Foundation 2022 collaborative report, “50 Years of Title IX: We’re Not Done Yet.”

Subsequent research has been supported by SUNY Faculty Research Program awards in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Professor Darvin serves on the editorial board of several peer-referred journals, including the Sport Management Education Journal (SMEJ), the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience (JADE), and the Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports (JEGE). Darvin is a member of the Dell Technologies Research Collective and the North American Society of Sport Management, and she serves on the steering committee for the PNC Bank Pittsburgh Knights women in esport group. In Spring 2019, Darvin created and advised the first women in sport management group on the campus of SUNY Cortland.

Darvin earned a Ph.D. in sport management in 2018 from the University of Florida, an M.S. in sport management in 2014 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a B.A. in political science in 2012 from Bryn Mawr College.