Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Katelyn E. Foltz (she/her/hers) is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
She explores how institutions create and maintain social inequalities, thereby promoting exploitation and violence towards marginalized populations. She interrogates the intersections of race, class, and gender in two distinct but overlapping institutions: sports and intimate partner relationships (family). In addition to researching violence as a tool to maintain structures of inequality, she also investigates resistance and activism within these institutions.
New Project on Football, concussions, and caregiving
Social Justice in the Community
Here Katelyn discusses the football and concussions through a sociological lens. She also notes the role wives and partners play as caregivers during playing and after retirements when players' bodies begin to fail them.
New Research Project
If you are a spouse or partner to a retired NFL player and would like to be interviewed as part of this study, please fill out this contact form.