John Gleaves, PhD

Currently the co-director of the International Network of Humanistic Doping Research and an assistant professor of kinesiology at the California State University Fullerton. My research focuses primarily on the ethics of doping and performance enhancement in sport and has been published in refereed journals including the Journal of Philosophy of Sport, Sports, Ethics and Philosophy, the International Journal of the History of Sport and the Journal of Sport History. Please explore here for more about my past publications. My future research aims to explore the ongoing philosophical issues related to sport, science and culture including issue related to doping, gender testing and the medicalization of sport. By combining science, ethics, and sport, I hope to make sense of the often ambiguous and highly-loaded debate over these issues in their broadest social, political, and cultural dimensions.
I also teach graduate and undergraduate courses on socio-cultural aspects of sport. In these courses, I attempt to combine “old school” critical thinking skills with a variety of technologies and mediums to provide meaningful and relevant educational experiences. Much of this is inspired by Prof. John Boyer from Virgina Tech, who has a great website on education and technology.
On a personal level, I am a father and a husband. I am also an avid cyclist including road, mountain, track, and cyclocross (bonus points if you know what the last two are). I also ski (alpine) and play football (soccer), and am slowly becoming a fan of Liverpool F.C. (thanks to Matthew Llewellyn).
In the meantime, thanks for reading, please check out my blog, and enjoy thinking critically about sport.