ホーン ジョン

John Horne Ph.D., FAcSS, NASSS Research Fellow, is currently Professor in the Graduate School and Faculty of Sport Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining Waseda, he held the chair of sport and sociology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston, and has been Reader and Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Education at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over 150 publications including: Understanding the Olympics (2nd edition, 2016), Mega-Events and Globalization (2016), Sport and Social Movements (2014), Understanding Sport (2nd edition, 2013), Sport in Consumer Culture (2006), Football Goes East (2004) and Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (2002). He was appointed as a subject expert in the social science of sport to the sub panel for ‘Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism’ in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the U.K. and elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2012. In 2017 he was elected as one of the inaugural Research Fellows of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). He is currently Vice President and Treasurer of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) and Research Committee 27 (Sport) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and Past Chair of the British Sociological Association (BSA).