Jean Marie Maier is a fourth-year PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota. She studies higher education and athletics, and is especially interested in sport’s intersection with organizational interests and visions of education. Jean Marie has an MA from the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education MA program at the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Political Science from Davidson College. She has also worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Gumi, South Korea and as a research intern at the American Association of University Women.