Zachary W. Arth

Associate Professor of Sports Communication
Assistant Director of the Center for Sports Communication

Bio

Dr. Arth comes to Marist by way of The University of Alabama, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2019. His research centers around sports media, particularly focusing on issues pertaining to ethnicity, nationality, and sex/gender, primarily through the lens of global competitions such as the Olympic Games. Additionally, he is interested in how viewers process the information disseminated by announcers and graphics while watching a typical sporting contest. At the most granular level, Dr. Arth is interested in baseball fans and how they navigate the divide between traditional and modern statistics and ways of thinking about the game of baseball. 

Education

PhD, Communication & Information Science, The University of Alabama, 2019
MA, Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2016
BA, Communication/Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2014

Research Interests / Areas of Focus

The intersection of sport, media, identity, and information processing.

Selected Publications

Arth, Z. W., Pike, M. P., & Angelini, J. R. (2022). From medals to minutes: Time on camera for men and women during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on NBC. International    Journal of Sport Communication, 15, 255-265. 

Arth, Z. W., & Billings, A. C. (2022). Major League Baseball broadcasts and the delineation of traditional and modern fact metrics. Communication & Sport, 10, 354-373. 

Arth, Z. W., & Billings, A. C. (2021). Batting average and beyond: The framing of statistics within regional Major League Baseball broadcasts. International Journal of Sport Communication, 14, 212-232. 

Arth, Z. W., Griffin, D. J., & Billings, A. C. (2019). (Inter)national pastime: Depicting nationality in local and national Major League Baseball broadcasts. International Journal of Sport Communication, 12, 354-370. doi: 10.1123/ijsc.2018-0131

Arth, Z. W., Hou, J., Rush, S. W., & Angelini, J. R. (2019). (Broad)casting a wider net: Clocking men and women in the primetime and non-primetime coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Communication & Sport, 7, 565-587. doi: 10.1177/2167479518794505 

Arth, Z. W., & Billings, A. C. (2019). Touching racialized bases: Ethnicity in Major League Baseball broadcasts at the local and national levels. The Howard Journal of Communications, 30, 230-248. doi:10.1080/10646175.2018.1466746

Zachary W. Arth

Contact Information

Academic School

School of Communication and the Arts

Office

Lowell Thomas 242

Email

zachary.arth@marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3650 ext. 5002