Don D. McAulay
Assistant Professor of Management
Donald D. McAulay, Jr., Ph.D., a native of New Haven and a proud graduate of James Hillhouse High School. Don received his doctoral degree in Learning, Leadership, and Educational Policy at the University of Connecticut NEAG School of Education and a Master's in Sport Management from Troy University. His Bachelor's degree is from the College of William & Mary.
His professional and scholarly interests focus on holistic athletic development across the athletic continuum, athletic identity, athletic transition/transference, institutional policy, and Black male sociopolitical and socioemotional identity development.
Don is currently a Youth Commissioner for the City of New Haven and a Board Committee member for the Social Justice Readers program at the Institute Library.
His professional and scholarly interests focus on holistic athletic development across the athletic continuum, athletic identity, athletic transition/transference, institutional policy, and Black male sociopolitical and socioemotional identity development.
Don is currently a Youth Commissioner for the City of New Haven and a Board Committee member for the Social Justice Readers program at the Institute Library.
Education
- BA, The College of William and Mary
- MS, Troy University
- PHD, University of Connecticut
Areas of Expertise
- Management
- Social Issues in Management
- Organizational Leadership
Organization
- Management
Office Location
- Faculty Office Building 129
Mail Drop
- SB-DNF
Quinnipiac Today
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Presentations
"Intellectual Homeboys & Brotha Docs: Navigating Academia as a Black Male"
Williams, L., McAulay, Jr., D. D., & Fennell, M.,
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Chicago, IL (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Male at Camp
McAulay, Jr., D. D.
College Research Sports Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
HBHS / HBCU: Education, Sports, & Segregation
McAulay, Jr., D. D.
College Research Sports Institute., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC., United States (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
“We’re obviously educated on the field, but we’re educated on this thing called life”: Exploring the master narrative of Black male scholar-athletes navigational experiences in the socio-cultural environment of a historically White college and university
Herman III, J., McAulay, Jr., D., & Bopp, T.
North American Society for Sport Management, Minneapolis, MN., United States (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Student-Athletes Understanding Emotions & Identity Politics
McAulay, Jr., D. D.,
AthLife Foundation: 3ACE National Conference, University of Maryland, College Park (2024)
Peer Reviewed Journal
Anti-Black misandry as an emotional reflection with Black American male college athletes: An interpretative phenomenological study.
McAulay Jr., D. D.
Sociology of Sport Journal 1-12 (2024)
Peer Reviewed Journal
The Black college athletes’ burden: A critical analysis of race, civic engagement, and activism of National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes.
Cooper, J. N., McAulay, Jr., D. D., & Herman, J.
Sociology of Sport Journal 1 - 14 (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Angel vs Caitlin: An Interactionist Synthesis of Smack Talk
Fennell, Marcis, Ph.D., McAulay, Don, Ph.D
2023 North American Society of Sociology of Sport , New Orleans, LA (2023)