Jacob Groshek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Ross Beach Chair of Emerging Media Research
groshek@ksu.edu | jacobgroshek.com
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Jacob Groshek (Ph.D., Indiana University) is the endowed Ross Beach Chair of Emerging Media at Kansas State University and a Research Scientist with the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also the founding Executive Director of the Reset Sports Culture and Media Initiative, a nonprofit advancing youth sports through research, education, and applied tools to improve youth sports culture through media, and mitigate risks such as youth sports gambling.

Previously, Groshek held faculty and research appointments at Boston University, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the University of Melbourne in Australia, Iowa State University, the Toulouse School of Economics in France, and he currently is a faculty affiliate at the University of Warsaw in Poland and the Roskilde University in Denmark. His work spans politics, sport, media, technology, artificial intelligence, misinformation, and public health, with a particular focus on how communication systems shape culture, behavior, and decision making.

Groshek has published more than 75 peer-reviewed studies and multiple books, including forthcoming work on athletes, artificial intelligence, and sports culture. He is also the developer of an open-access sport technology app and Executive Producer of an upcoming documentary examining the growth of flag football. His research combines interpretive approaches with advanced quantitative methods, network analysis, machine learning, and forecasting to examine how media and technology influence individuals, organizations, and society.

Beyond academia, Groshek is an active volunteer for the NFL in youth sports officiating, coaching, marketing, and league management. This work connects his scholarship directly with sports and media leadership, organizational development, experiential learning, and community engagement.

A selection of Groshek’s publications is available on his website and he maintains a profile on LinkedIn. As part of his commitment to public scholarship, many of Dr. Groshek's research articles are open access, but for publications behind paywalls, please contact him for access, feedback and questions, research collaboration, or media and speaking requests.