Susan Brownell

My brother Rob, who has ALS, spent years using voice command to write a futuristic, absurdist take on engineers and entrepreneurs, with a subplot involving Mysterious Fatal Disease (MFD). Support his Kickstarter and ALS fundraising campaign! kickstarter.com/projects/robbr…

This op-ed just published on Al Jazeera's English-language website. Politicians should stop wasting time on doomed Olympic boycotts aje.io/2zz2f4 via @AJEnglish

Your Olympic Team May Be an Illusion sapiens.org/culture/olympi… via @sapiens_org Given the current furor over freeski gold medalist #EileenGu, I thought I would resurrect my essay about citizen-ship switching in the Olympics from the Rio Olympics.

@globalsportuva team member Mark Hann celebrates his cum laude PhD and thanks his supervisor Niko Besnier at the reception after the defense.

@globalsportuva newly minted PhD Uroš Kovač and soon to be PhD Mark Hann with ex footballer Kizito Musampa on the panel on “Global Sports, Masculinity and Exploitation: Views from Africa” at Amsterdam Public Library.

@AmandaUCSC So sorry that you were visited by this tragedy. You have my support as you face an uncertain future without him. Let me know what I can do.

Visiting PyeongChang Olympic ski jump site with @globalsportuva

In Seoul with Prof Kang Shin-pyo (Korea) & Ru Xiuying (Beijing) for Olympic seminars, Niko Besnier @globalsportuva arriving tonight.

Disneyesque Alpine resort at 2022 Olympic ski site near Chongli 3 hours from Beijing.

@DepAnthArchUMSL @baosushan in Beijing visiting Wang Fang, a visiting scholar at UMSL last year.

Susan Brownell at the GlobalSport conference in Prague as Niko Besnier #globalsportuva kicks it off.

In Prague for @globalsportuva conference. Posters at Museum of Communism remind of huge changes in global sport.

Fiji #Rugby7s = #Rio2016 #Gold but has a dark side. Read the astonishing @SAPIENS_org story sapiens.org/culture/fiji-r…

Attending the International Sport Business Symposium Rio 2016 today. Photo with the torch. Great to see old friends.

#Rio2016 and the #zika panic: read the critique by @baosushan & @globalsportuva at sapiens.org/culture/olympi…

On the way to Olympic stadium for heptathlon. Graffiti is Brazil's national art form.

Fiji women's rugby supports men in first-ever Olympic medal for Fiji, a gold. One of my best-ever Olympic moments.

My 1st time to watch Olympic sailing. Usually it's in a different city. Beach much more pleasant than a hot stadium!

Int'l Coubertin Society meeting. Interesting how profs, students & practitioners worldwide connect with Olympics.

Susan Brownell @baosushan at the reception following the opening of de #Coubertin exhibition at #ClubFrance #Rio2016