Jessica W. Chin

Jessica W. Chin is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at San José State University (USA). She is a physical cultural studies scholar whose interdisciplinary research centers on the ways socio-cultural, political, and historical contexts intersect with participation experiences and the construction of identity through sports and physical activity. She critically interrogates questions of gender and racial ideology, power, and representation in physical culture, focusing in particular on the meanings and experiences of Asian-American sports participation, sports hazing and initiation rituals, sports in communist and post-communist settings, and Bike Party movements. She is a physical activity enthusiast and an amateur practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ).