Joshua Shuart, Ph.D.

Joshua Shuart teaches primarily in the Sport Management program and arrived at Sacred Heart in 2002. Dr. Shuart's expertise and scholarly interests include celebrity endorsement, sport marketing, and sport & entertainment sponsorship. He is a member of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), The Alliance for Sport Business, Sport Marketing Association (SMA), and the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM).

Prior to coming to Sacred Heart University, Professor Shuart worked as a Research Associate with the Laboratory for Leisure, Tourism & Sport in Storrs, CT. In 2003, he was named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow and worked with students as a Faculty Advisor to the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE). He is a Faculty Mentor to the Men's Baseball team at Sacred Heart, and mentors several undergraduate and graduate Welch Scholars.

Dr. Shuart has consulted with numerous organizations, teams and corporations, including: ESPN, World Wrestling Entertainment, The Harlem Globetrotters, Madison Square Garden and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

Dr. Shuart is the Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship (NEJE).