Evan T. Baughman

Education

• M.A., Sociology, UC Davis, 2021
• B.A., Religion and Sociology, Bowdoin College, 2017

About

Evan studies disability, sport, and disabled athletes. His Qualifying Paper research examined the role that Paralympians played in developing their sports from a form of medical rehabilitation into elite sport and was awarded the Leon Mayhew Prize for Best Qualifying Paper. Evan's dissertation research investigates the educational outcomes and experiences of competitive intercollegiate wheelchair basketball student-athletes.

Research Focus

Sociology of Disability, the Paralympic Movement, Disability Sport, Medicalization, Theory, Qualitative Methods

Publications

Under Review:

• "Athletes, not Patients: Disabled Athletes’ Struggle to De-Medicalize the Paralympic Games.” The International Journal of Sport and Society.

Current Projects:

• "Engines of Demedicalization: The Paralympic Case"
• “Transitions to Adulthood Among Disabled Native and Foreign-Born Adults”
• "Education Outcomes for Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Student-Athletes"
• "Education Experiences of Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Student-Athletes"
• "Paralympian Intermediate Activism and Advancement of High-Performance Paralympic Sport"
• "ADHD as Contested Illness: Media Critiques of Medicalization and Pharmaceuticalization"

Teaching

Associate Instructor:

• SOC 146: Sociology of Religion

Teaching Assistant:

• SOC 001: Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 100: Origins of Modern Sociological Theory
• SOC 122: Sociology of Adolescence
• SOC 124: Education and Inequality
• SOC 162: Culture, Society, and Health
• SOC 164: Health Policy
• SOC 185: Social Policy

Awards

• 2024 - Dissertation Year Fellowship - UC Davis
• 2024 - Emerging Scholar Award - Sport & Society
• 2024 - Leon Mayhew Prize for Best Qualifying Paper - UC Davis Sociology
• 2022 - Graduate Student Association Travel Award - UC Davis
• 2019 - Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship - UC Davis
• 2017 - Lydia Bell Award for Initiative in Public Service - Bowdoin College
• 2016 - Grua/O’Connell Research Award - Bowdoin College