MEDIA APPEARANCES

Feature Interviews

• Podcast: “A Football Life with Zack Furness,” End of Sport, Episode 116, July 19, 2023. 
• Podcast: “The Politics of Bicycling,” People & Things, Season 2, Episode 9. February 16, 2023.
• Web: “Exclusive with Zack Furness, Son of Steelers 70’s Defensive Lineman/Coach Steve Furness,” Steelers Takeaways, 13 July 2021.
• Podcast: “Repo Man,” The Generation Splice, 2021.
• Podcast: “The George Floyd Echo: Zack Furness on America on Fire,” Battleground.eu, 9 Mar 2021. Click here for a direct link to the audio.
• Radio & Podcast: “Reading News Critically in the Social Media Age,” Two Rivers, 30 Minutes. Also aired on WEDO (810 AM) and WZUM (1550 AM), 24 Apr 2020.
• Radio: “1992 First Critical Mass Ride,” Action Speaks Radio, Boston Public Radio (WGBH Boston 89.7 FM). Recorded at AS220, Providence RI. October 10, 2012. Re-broadcast on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ 91.5 FM) and KBOO Radio (90.7 FM) in Portland, OR.
• Print: One Way Ticket to Cubesville, Issue #13: Education Special, 2012.
• Print: David Scharfenberg, “Cycling and Democracy,” The Providence Phoenix, October 3, 2012.
• Print: Sarah Louden, “Empowerment on Two Wheels,” Modeshift: The Newsletter of the Active Transportation Alliance, Spring, 2012.
• Radio: “On Bicycles, Cars, and Cities,” Remapping Debate (formerly History for the Future) Carnegie Mellon University Radio (WRCT 88.3 FM), October 4, 2011.
• Print: Jon Lamb, “Pedaling Big Changes,” Direct Action (Sydney, Australia), No. 34, August, 2011.
• Radio: “Hubs & Spokes: Threading the Wheels of Chicago’s Bike Culture,” Velosophie: a Program of the Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ 91.5 FM). Recorded at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL. May 30, 2009.
• Radio: Velolution: Bike Radio Show, University of California, Davis Radio (KDVS 90.3 FM), August 4, 2008.

Press Interviews

• Interviewed for Casey Taylor, “The Sheetz vs. Wawa War, Explained by a Real Pennsylvanian,” Mel Magazine, 12 Nov 2020.
• Interviewed for Sara Simon, “Students at Penn State Forced to Sign COVID-19 Liability Waiver to Participate in Fall Semester,” Spotlight PA and The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 2020. Also published in PennLive, The Times (Aliquippa), and The Patriot-News​​​​.
• Interviewed for Madason Porter-Gibson, “Radio Silence at WMKP,” The GA-ZETTE, Fall 2020.
• Interviewed for Nathaniel Rega, “90 Seconds Under the Blue Umbrella,” The GA-ZETTE, Fall 2020.
• Interviewed for Madeleine Holden, “Fellas, Is It Gay to Save the Planet?,” Mel Magazine, Nov 2019.
• Interviewed for Kate Mooney, “Crowded Shelves and Melting Skulls: Why So Many Vape Stores Look the Same,” Vox, 26 July 2019.
• Interviewed for “Penn State Greater Allegheny Honors Exceptional Students with First EPIC Awards,” Penn State News, 17 Apr 2018.
• Interviewed for Schuyler Velasco, “Why Are We So Mad About Football?,” Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sept 2017.
• Interviewed for a documentary film project by Alejandro Tobón Álvarez called Bike Together. Conducted on 30 Aug 2017.
• Interviewed for Scott Mervis, “Preview: BARONS Has Long Legacy Behind It,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 18 Sept 2014.
• Interviewed for Susannah Butter, “Work, Life, Cycle: Get Ahead on Your Bike,” London Evening Standard, November 25, 2013.
• Interviewed for Jacob Quinn Sanders, “Ghost Bikes: Rough Memorials Honor Cyclists Killed While Riding Wednesday,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 1, 2010.

Selected Media Mentions & Press Citations

• Research cited in James Longhurst, “Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar Educational Films,” Bike Battles, 6 Jan 2022.
• Research cited in Nitish Pahwa, “Americans Are Ready to Embrace Bicycles, But There’s One Thing Standing in Their Way,” Slate, 22 Jul 2021.
• Tweet quoted in Ed Mazz,”Peter Navarro’s White House Departure is Already a Brutal Meme,” Huffington Post and Yahoo News, 15 Jan 2021.
• Tweet quoted in Evan Brechtel, “Rudy Just Called for ‘Trial by Combat’ to Decide Election Results and the Mockery Was Swift,” Second Nexus, 6 Jan 2021.
• Tweet quoted Rehab Darwish, “‘WW84 Might Be Feminist, but Very Racist’: Breaking Down Everything That is Wrong With The Wonder Woman Movie,” Al Bawaba (Amman, Jordan), 28 Dec 2020.
• Tweet quoted in Brett Wilkins, “Senate GOP Blasted for Proposing OSHA Cuts as Covid-19 Crisis ‘Makes Many Jobs Much More Dangerous’,” Common Dreams, 11 Nov 2020.
• Tweet quoted in “‘Final Goal’: Teammates Give an Emotional Tribute to Footballer Killed in Mexico,” The Indian Express (New Delhi), 14 Jun 2020.
• Research cited in James Longhurst, “Reconsidering the Victory Bike in WWII,” Bike Battles (blog), 25 Mar 2020.
• Research cited in Doug Hartmann, Kyle Green & Alex Manning, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct? Reflections on a Tumultuous NFL Season,” The Society Pages, Feb 1, 2018.
• Research cited in Mark Anthony Neal, “#ColinKaepernickSyllabus,” NewBlackMan (in Exile), 6 Sept 2016.
• Research cited in Maria Konnikova, “Cars vs. Bikes vs. Pedestrians,” The New Yorker, Nov 5, 2015.
• Research cited in Taz Loomans, “Whether We Like it or Not, Bicycles are Peace Machines,” Bike Portland, 26 Jun 2015.
• Research cited in Andrew Linden, “Review of The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives,” Sport in American History, June 25, 2015.
• Research cited in Baynard Woods, “Conflicts of Interest: Talking About Money,” Baltimore City Paper, 17 Nov 2014.
• Research cited in Feargal McKay, “One Less Car, by Zack Furness,” SB Nation: Podium Cafe, Oct 29, 2014.
• Research cited in Melody Hoffmann, “How a ‘Safe’ Cyclist Can Still End Up Dead,” Huffington Post, April 9, 2014.
• Research cited in “Bicycling’s Racist, Sexist and Classist Beginnings and How They Impact Bicycling Today,” Blooming Rock, 5 Sept 2014.
• Research cited in “How to Make the Streets Safe for All Bicyclists,” Community Commons, 4 Sept 2014.
• Research cited in Jay Gabler, “Cars and Bikers: How “Safe” is Safe Enough?,” The Tangential, 9 Feb 2014.
• Tweet quoted in Andy Mulkerin, “League of Denial Strings Together Deaths of Former Steelers, Puts NFL in the Hot Seat,” Pittsburgh City Paper, 9 Oct 2013.
• Research cited in Eric Peterson, “Chain Reaction: Urban Politics in ‘the Age of the Bicycle’,” Los Angeles Review of Books, Sept 4, 2013.
• Research cited in Maren Keller, “Philosophy of Cycling,” Der Spiegel, June 19, 2013.
• Book Reviewed in Chris Estey, “Scribes Sounding Off: EMP Pop Conference 2013 in Seattle!,” KEXP.org, 15 Apr 2013.
• Research cited in “Professor’s New Book Explores Link Between Punk, Higher Education,” Penn State News, March 12, 2013.
• Music featured in Scott Mervis, “Preview: Punk Firefighter Gets to the Frantic Heart of It,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan 31, 2013.
• Research cited in Joseph Martin, “Ivory Minority: Punk in the University,” Los Angeles Review of Books, Jan 21, 2013.
• Research cited in Feargal McKay, “The Bicycle Reader, Issue 1,” SB Nation: Podium Cafe, Sept 5, 2012.
• Research cited in Leighton Walker Kille, “Bicycle Studies Pick Up Speed in Academia,” Pacific Standard, July 25, 2012.
• Research cited in “10 Books About Cycling – Reading Guide,” London Review Bookshop, 2012.
• Music featured in Scott Mervis, “Local Scene: Big Snow Big Thaw, Voice in the Wire, Falling Andes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 Mar 2012.
• Research cited in 56A Bike Space Collective, “Independent Bike Projects, Episode 2,” Oct 4, 2011.
• Research cited in Bryan Goebel, “San Francisco’s First Bike Lane Was Striped 40 Years Ago This Week,” Streetsblog SF, May 27, 2011.