Ann M. Mayo, Ph.D. 

Director of the Center for Sport Management

Ann M. Mayo is in her sixth year as the Director of the Center for Sport Management and Assistant Professor of Management in the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. She previously served as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Coordinator of External and Alumni Relations in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Prior to joining the business school at UNLV, Dr. Mayo served as the Academic Consultant to the men’s basketball program at UNLV, and as an academic counselor in the Department of Athletics at The Ohio State University. Her dissertation research consisted of a study of "The Relationship Between Athletic Participation and the Academic Aptitude, Achievement, and Progress of Male and Female Athletes in Revenue and Non-Revenue Producing Sports at The Ohio State University."

Dr. Mayo has researched, consulted and published in the areas of Sport Betting and Sport Gaming Regulation, Indian Gaming Regulation, Ethics of Sport, the NCAA and antitrust, and issues relating to sport management in the curriculum. She is a past executive board member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics and is currently active in organizing business school programs in sport management through the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM). She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from California State University, Dominguez Hills; and her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.