Professor McDonald joined the School of History and Sociology in 2013 to direct the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Art’s Sports, Society and Technology program. A past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Professor McDonald’s research focuses on American culture and sport including issues of inequality as related to gender, race, class, and sexuality. She has published over 40 research articles and book chapters, co-edited an anthology about power and sports, and has also edited four special journal issues devoted to the critical analysis of sports. She has recently begun to expand this focus by engaging Science and Technology Studies theories and methods to critically investigate sporting technologies.