Legacy Professors
Named for Brooks’ son and three colleagues who died in a 1993 plane crash, four Legacy Professors assist in the day-to-day operations of the institute. The professors are responsible for building a more in-depth program of study within each of their disciplines by recruiting and encouraging other faculty and students to contribute to the institute’s mission.
Mark Brooks Professor of Sports Management
Skye Arthur-Banning, Ph.D.
Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
Arthur-Banning is a professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. His primary research interests are centered around mental health and sport, para/adaptive sport and amateur sport development, and has secured over $1.8 million as a principal investigator to support programming and research. He currently serves as the Director of Research and Development for the U.S. Center for Mental Health and Sport, is the Head of Officials for the International Federation of Cerebal Palsy Football, serves as the vice-chair on the Board of Directors for the United States Association for Blind Athletes, and is an International Paralympic Committee NPC Development Mentor.
Charlie Campbell Professor of Sports Communication
Bryan Denham, Ph.D.
Department of Communication
Denham is a professor in the Department of Communication. He studies media, policy and health issues related to performance-enhancing substance use in amateur and professional sports. His research has appeared in top-tier journals such as Communication Theory, the Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Also working in the area of research methods, he is the author of Categorical Statistics for Communication Research. Denham is a member of five editorial boards and has served as a manuscript referee for more than 50 academic journals in the behavioral, social and health sciences. He has been a faculty member at Clemson since 1999.
Dan Duncan Professor of Sports Marketing
Angeline Close Scheinbaum, Ph.D.
Department of Marketing
Scheinbaum is an associate professor of sports marketing and scholar of consumer behavior, integrated brand promotion, and sponsorship/experiential marketing in sectors of sports and social media/online consumer behavior. Her research is often based in industry experience in sports marketing with event sponsors such as Dodge, Ford, VW, Toyota, Shell, Lexus, Suzuki, Mazda, USA Cycling, and AT&T. Professor Scheinbaum is an author and editor. Her research has earned awards including the American Marketing Association Sports SIG Paper of the Year and The Academy of Marketing Science’s M. Wayne Delozier Best Conference Paper Award. She has experience mentoring and publishing with doctoral students. Prior to Clemson, she served as Associate Director of Research for the Center for Sports Communication & Media at The University of Texas at Austin.
Alan Kulwicki Professor of Motor Sports Engineering
Rob Prucka, Ph.D.
Department of Automotive Engineering
Prucka is a professor in the Department of Automotive Engineering at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). His first big project was guiding a team of graduate students and industry sponsors in building Deep Orange 9. The ninth installment of the celebrated program was the first aimed at motorsports — constructing a next-generation Rallycross race car. Prucka has been a member of the automotive engineering faculty since 2008. His research and teaching interests include the design, performance, control, calibration and emissions of advanced internal combustion engines. Prior to joining Clemson, he worked for the Ford Motor Company and was an independent consultant for racing engine manufacturers.
