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Zachary Arth is an Assistant Professor of Sport Communication at Marist College in New York. His research primarily centers on “sports media, particularly focusing on issues pertaining to ethnicity, nationality, and sex/gender.” Prior to becoming a professor, he studied under Dr. Darrin Griffin and served as a Lab Manager from Fall 2018-Spring 2019 in the C&IS Human Communication Research Lab, located in Reese Phifer Hall at the University of Alabama, where he helped to “discuss, plan, and conduct research related to communication.”

Studies
Dr. Arth’s research centers on sport communication, mainly baseball and how its fans process information from the game across varying cultures. Specifically, Dr. Arth is interested in how viewers interpret graphics displayed on the screen during game broadcasts and how viewers interpret information from announcers during the game.

Before coming to Marist College as a professor, Dr. Arth received the following accolades:

PhD in Communication & Information Science via the University of Alabama in 2019

Master of Communication via the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2016

Bachelor of Communication/Psychology via the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2014

Publications

 * (Inter)national pastime: Depicting Nationality in local and national Major League Baseball broadcasts – International Journal of Sport Communication
 * Touching racialized bases: Ethnicity in Major League Baseball broadcasts at the local and national Levels – The Howard Journal of Communications
 * (Broad)casting a wider net: Clocking men and women in the primetime and non-primetime coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics – Communication & Sport
 * Framing the game through a sabermetric lens: Major League Baseball broadcasts and the delineation of traditional and new fact metrics – The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
 * Enveloped in the American Flag: Contrasting National Identity within Olympic and National Football League Media Consumption – Journal of Global Sport Management

Personal Life
When Dr. Arth is not teaching on the ins and outs of sport communication at Marist, he is a participant in the John DiMarco DC Classic League at the Spins Bowl bowling alley near the school. His love of bowling comes from being taught by his father at an early age, who was himself in a bowling league. One aspect of the game that Dr. Arth’s father taught him was when to release the ball during the swing, and during this time, Dr. Arth developed a habit where he would land on the wrong foot. His father tried to correct the error, but soon discovered that his son was a much better bowler with the unorthodox form. Dr. Arth also developed the habit of wiping down his ball and his shoes before each throw, and it seems to be leading to success. In fact, as the newest member of the DC Classic League at the start of the season, he was averaging a score of 250 (the highest score in a bowling match is 300).

Dr. Arth competed while at the University of Buffalo, but took some time off while in Alabama.