Dr. Melvin L. Adelman (adelman.1@osu.edu) has taught sport studies courses at The Ohio State University since 1984. The author of A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70 (1986), he is currently working on a history of the All-American Football Conference and professional football in post World War II America.

Dr. Adelman has published articles in the Journal of Sport History, the Journal of Social History, Canadian History of Sport and is current editor of the Journal of Sport History. Dr. Adelman teaches a wide array of graduate classes and seminars on the history of sport. His doctoral students have and are currently teaching at a variety of institutions including, the University of Iowa; University of Georgia; California State University-Sacramento; State University of New York at Cortland; University of Houston; and Clark-Atlanta University.