Jeffrey Montez de Oca is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is Founding Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Sport.

Dr. Montez de Oca researches sport, media, and political economy with particular interest in U.S. football. His current research analyzes marketing strategies of the National Football Leagues.

He is currently the Secretary of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and previously served on the editorial board of Sociology of Sport Journal.

At UCCS, he is co-chair of the Faculty Minority Affairs Committee and chair of the 2016 UCCS Diversity Summit steering committee amongst other college and university level committee work.

Dr. Montez de Oca attended the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.), New York University (M.A.) and the University of Southern California (Ph.D.).

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