Matthew P. Llewellyn is Professor in the department of kinesiology at the California State University, Fullerton. He earned a PhD in the historical and philosophical aspects of sport and physical activity at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published in journals including the Journal of Southern African Studies, South African Historical Journal, Contemporary British History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport, as well as numerous textbook chapters. He has published several books and edited collections, including Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest (Routledge, 2022). He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Olympic Studies and is a Co-Director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research (CSSOR).
Toby C. Rider is Professor in the department of kinesiology at the California State University, Fullerton. He earned a PhD. in the sociocultural study of sport and exercise at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Toby has published multiple articles, contributed several chapters to scholarly books, and presented his research at numerous conferences. He is the author of Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy (University of Illinois Press, 2016), and co-editor of Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), and Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest (Routledge, 2022). Toby is also the Co-Director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research.