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Jacco van Sterkenburg
Professor Dr Jacco van Sterkenburg is an endowed professor of ‘race’, inclusion and communication, specifically in relation to football and media in the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus University. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Mulier Institute – Dutch Centre for Social Science Research in Sport, the Netherlands. His research focuses mainly on discourses surrounding race/ethnicity and whiteness in a multi-ethnic society, with a particular focus on the case of sports media and sport management and leadership. He is currently leading a five-year international project that explores how discourses of race/ethnicity and whiteness are connected in televised football production, televised football content and audience receptions within diverse European countries.
Contact: Erasmus Research Centre for Media Communication and Culture, Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
