Dr. Sarah Hillyer is the founder of Sport 4 Peace, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality and availability of sporting opportunities for girls and women around the world. Over the past 20 years, she has designed and implemented hundreds of sport for peace and development projects in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, China, Inner Mongolia, Zimbabwe, Mexico, and Brazil. Dr. Hillyer is the Director of the Center for Sport, Peace, & Society.
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Sarah Hillyer
Director of the UT Center for Sport, Peace, and Society
Sarah Hillyer's Biography
Dr. Hillyer served as the Generations For Peace, HM King Abdullah II, post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University. She received her PhD from The University of Tennessee in Sport and Exercise Science with a concentration in Sport Sociology. She also holds a master’s degree in Health and Exercise Science with a specialization in Sport Psychology from Murray State University. Dr. Hillyer completed her undergraduate work at Liberty University in Sports Administration, where she also played basketball. Dr. Hillyer’s research interests include the intersections of sport and peacebuilding, community development, diplomacy, and the use of sport as a tool for effective and positive social change. Her dissertation titled, “Women’s Softball in Iran: An Auto-ethnographic Journey,” detailed her decade-long experiences as a woman’s softball coach in Iran.
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