Selected Writing
Books
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
An investigation into how college football players accused of sexual assault are shielded by their universities, their coaches and athletic departments, and the media. Published by Akashic Books in 2016.
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Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Co-authored with Kavitha Davidson. A thoughtful exploration of the dilemmas fans face when the sports they love are entangled with exploitation, racism, sexism, and corruption. Published by University of Texas Press in 2020.
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Desexigration and Desegration
"Desexigration and Desegration: Gender, Race, and Women's Basketball at the University of Texas in the 1970s" was completed in 2025 under the direction of Dr. Janice Todd at the University of Texas. Luther’s dissertation has a familiar narrative of women athletes triumphing against the odds and in spaces that were not built for them, but also one less studied, of how complicated the story becomes when race is taken seriously in conjunction with gender and Title IX. The women’s basketball team at the University of Texas in the 1970s is a microcosm of many of the ways that women’s sports have succeeded and failed. It is, in short, the story of women’s sports.
Articles & Essays
