Professor Ben Carrington is an internationally renowned British sociologist currently working as an associate professor of sociology and journalism in University of Southern California – USC. He is widely regarded as one the world’s leading scholars on the sociology of race and culture, especially in relation to popular culture and sport, and has given keynote talks on these topics in North America, the Caribbean and across much of Europe.
His work examines the mass media and sport as way to understand key sociological dimensions of everyday life such as personal and communal identity and national identifications as well as focusing on how racialized, gendered and classed social structures constrain and enable social life. He is currently working on a number of projects, including an examination of the contribution of Stuart Hall to sociological theory as well as a methodological and political argument for the importance of “slow ethnography.”
Professor Carrington teaches various undergraduate and graduate classes such as “The Politics of Sports” and “Race, Celebrity and Sports.” He also teaches courses on cultural sociology and post/colonial theory and supervises both masters and doctoral students. Professor Carrington currently serves on a wide range of editorial boards spanning sociology, cultural studies and sports studies and is also a Carnegie Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University in England.
Ben is the author of four books: “Race, Sport and Politics; “A Companion to Sports”; “Race, Sports and British Society”; “Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport”