H-Sport Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport Page published by Heather Dichter on Saturday, April 16, 2016 H-Sport congratulates all of the scholars who have completed their graduate work in the sport humanities The list will updated twice each year to reflect additions, completions, and basic editing of titles, affiliations, etc Don't see your name on this list? Please email the following information formatted as so: Last name, First name MA / PhD, Affiliation Thesis / Dissertation Title Year completed Please use completed thesis/dissertation list as the subject of the email to editorial-sport@mail.hnet.msu.edu Completed Dissertations & Theses (by year) 2012 Dishon, Gideon MA, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University "Games of Power; The Unique Function of Team Sports in Victorian Public Schools" Esch, Joern PhD, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg "Football's Subject A History of collectively moved Bodies" Hartmann, Heidi PhD, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg "The Formation of a New Field: Women's Boxing in Germany—Opportunities and Limitations of an Athlete's Career" Heck, Sandra PhD, Ruhr-University Bochum "Von spielenden Soldaten und kämpfenden Athleten: die Genese des Modernen Fünfkampfs" ("Playing Soldiers and Battling Athletes: the Genesis of Modern Pentathlon") Philippe, Tanguy PhD, Université de Haute Bretagne Les routes de la lutte - Etudes de cas : Asie Centrale, Europe, Amérique du Nord [The Wrestling Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport Roads - Case studies : Central Asia, Europe, North America] Salerno, Stephanie MA, Liberal Studies, North Central College "Skater, Poser, Punk: The Struggle For Space, Individuality and Authenticity Within Straight-Edge, Queercore and Skateboarding Punk Communities" Sotomayor, Antonio PhD, Department of History, the University of Chicago "Playing the Nation in a Colonial Island: Sport, Culture, and Politics in Puerto Rico" Sterea, Anita PhD, University of Bucharest "Olympic Movement in Romania during the Communism regime" Turkmen, Mutlu PhD, Education Sciences Institute, Ankara Gazi University "The Use of Physical Education and Sport as a Politic-Socialization Device: The Example of Worker Sport Movement" 2013 Høyer-Kruse, Jens PhD, University of Southern Denmark "Planning of sports facilities in local municipalities" Jonasson, Kalle PhD, Malmö University "Sport Has Never Been Modern" McCullough, Sarah PhD, Cultural Studies, University of California - Davis "Mechanical Intuitions: The Origins and Growth of Mountain Biking" Nuhrat, Yagmur PhD, Department of Anthropology, Brown University "Fair Enough? Negotiating Ethics through Turkish Football" Turpin, Robert J PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Kentucky "'Our Best Bet is the Boy': Bicycle Marketing Schemes and American Culture, 1890-1960" 2014 Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport Brümmer, Kristina PhD, Department of Sport Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg "Mitspielfähigkeit Sportliches Training als formative Praxis" ("The Capability of Participation Training as Formative Practice") Munkwitz, Erica PhD, American University "'Straight Ahead and Over Everything': Women and Equestrian Sports in Britain, 1772-1956" Shuman, Amanda PhD, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz "The Politics of Socialist Athletics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1966" 2015 Ben Dori, Suzan MA, Tel Aviv University "'What's wrong with Pilates twice a week?': A critical approach towards gendering 'Mid-Life Crisis' in endurance sports" Caflisch, Sophie University of Zurich "Games and Play in medieval education" Delle Luche, Jean-Dominique PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) "Le plaisir des bourgeois et la gloire de la ville : sociétés et concours de tir dans les villes du SaintEmpire, XVe-XVIe siècles" [The burgher's pleasure, the city's glory: shooting societies and shooting contests in the cities of the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-16th centuries] Descamps, Yann PhD, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris (CREW - EA 4399) "Am I Black Enough for You?" African-Americans and Basketball in the Media (1950-2015)" Engh, Mari Haugaa PhD, Aarhus University "Producing and Maintaining Mobility: A migrant-centred analysis of transnational women's sports labour migration" He, Dongwan MA, University of Manitoba The Impact of Recent Policy Revisions Addressing Doping and Gender Rules on Women Track and Field Student-Athletes in China Jewett, Elizabeth Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport PhD, Department of History, University of Toronto "Behind the Greens: Understanding Golf Landscapes in Canada, 1873-1945" MacKenzie, Josh MA, Simon Fraser University "Allah! Wehdat! Al-Quds Arabiya!": Football, nationalism, and the chants of Palestinian resistance in Jordan Nicholson, Rafaelle PhD, Queen Mary, University of London "'Like a man trying to knit?' Women's Cricket in Britain, 1945-2000" Phillips, Benjamin P PhD, Michigan State University "All-American Activism: Athletic Activism, Reactionary Rhetoric, and Reactive Changes within the Big Ten Conference as Part of the Social Justice Movement" Rathbone, Keith PhD, Northwestern University "A Nation In Play: Physical Culture, the State, and Society during France's Dark Years, 1932-1948" Rommel, Carl PhD, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London "Revolution, play and feeling: Assembling emotionality, national subjectivity and football in Cairo, 1990-2013" Smith, Andrew PhD, Purdue University "No Way But to Fight: George Foreman and the American Century" Svoboda, Arnost PhD, Masaryk University "Top-level sport and authenticity: sport stars without media interes" Thompson, Glen PhD, History, Stellenbosch University "Surfing, Gender and Politics: Identity and Society in the History of South African Surfing Culture in the Twentieth-century" 2016 Al-Masri, Muzna PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London "Political Theatre: Football and Contestation in Beirut" Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport Bachynski, Kathleen PhD, Columbia University "'No Game For Boys To Play': Debating the Safety of High School Football, 1945-2015" Berg, Adam PhD, Pennsylvania State University "Denver '76: The Winter Olympics and the Politics of Growth in Colorado During the Late 1960s and Early 1970s" Caflisch, Sophie PhD, University of Zurich "Ludi congrui Spiel und Spielen im mittelalterlichen Unterricht" (Medieval Games in Educational Contexts) Dorsey, James PhD, University of Utrecht "Soccer: Moulding the Middle East and North Africa" Dufraisse, Sylvain PhD, Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne "Les 'héros du sport': La fabrique de l’élite sportive soviétique, 1934-1980" Gennaro, Michael PhD, University of Florida "Nigeria in the Ring: Boxing, Masculinity, and Empire in Nigeria, 1930-1957" Kaur, Tarminder PhD, University of the Western Cape, South Africa "Sporting Lives, 'Development' Agendas: a critical analysis of sport and 'development' nexus in the context of farm workers of the Western Cape" Kumar, Rohit MPhil, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi "Photographic Representation of Female Athletes in German Print Media - A study of Frankfurter Allgemeine and Sueddeutsche Zeitung" MacDonald, Cheryl A PhD, Concordia University "'Yo! You can't say that!': Understandings of Gender and Sexuality and Attitudes Towards Homosexuality Among Male Major Midget AAA Ice Hockey Players in Canada" Marston, Steve PhD, University of Kansas "Intimate Collisions: Identity, Community, and Place in the Kansas Dirt Track Auto Racing Sphere" Massao, Prisca Bruno PhD, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport "Sport, Race and Gender: The Experiences of Black Norwegian Athletes" Svensson, Daniel PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Scientizing performance in endurance sports: The emergence of ‘rational training’ in cross-country skiing, 1930-1980" Wing, Carlin PhD, New York University "Conditions of Bounce: Considering Materially Mediated (Mis)communication" 2017 Acheampong, Ernest Yeboah PhD, University of Grenoble Alpes "Socioeconomic Analysis of the 'Give Back Phenomenon': Professional footballers in Europe and their assistance to the communities of origin" Dawson, Victoria Samantha De Montfort University Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community in the North of England, 1880-1970 Cervin, Georgia PhD, University of Western Australia "A Balance of Power: Women's Artistic Gymnastics During the Cold War and its Aftermath" Galarza, Alex PhD, Michigan State University "Dreams of A Soccer City: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Transformation in 20th Century Buenos Aires" Gale, Samuel Edward PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison "It's a Press Victory: African American Newspaper Coverage of Black Sports and the Struggle for Racial Equality" Hogg, Emmanuel PhD, Carleton University “Kicking Through the Wall: Football, Division, and Entanglement in Postwar Berlin” Kilger, Magnus PhD, Stockholm University "Talking talent: Narratives of youth sports selection" McGregor, Andrew Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport PhD, Purdue University "From Dust to Dynasty: Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma" Naha, Souvik PhD, ETH Zurich "Cricket, Public Culture and Mediated Identities in Calcutta, 1934-1999" Ridge, Patrick Thomas PhD., Arizona State University "From Sport to Spectacle: An Archaeology of Latin American Soccer" Salkeld, Patrick H MA, University of Central Oklahoma "Americanizing the Beautiful Game: The Rise of Mainstream Soccer in the United States, 1960-2005" Troiano, Laura PhD, Rutgers University, Newark "Give Me A 'Ball Park Figure': Creating Civic Narratives Through Stadium Building in Newark, NJ" Wysocki, David J PhD, University of Arizona "Exercising the Cosmic Race: Mexican Sporting Culture and Mestizo Citizens" 2018 Barnes, Sarah PhD, Queen's University "The ultimate performance enhancement? A history of ideas about sleep as a training tool in high performance sport." Clevenger, Samuel M PhD, University of Maryland, College Park "Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937" Dubinsky, Itamar PhD, Ben Gurion University "Football academies in Ghana" Fielding, Stephen PhD, University of Victoria, Canada "Sporting Multiculturalism: Toronto's Postwar European Immigrants, Gender, Diaspora, and the Grassroots Making of Canadian Diversity" Mellis, Johanna PhD, University of Florida "Negotiation Through Sport: Navigating Everyday Life in Socialist Hungary, 1948-1989" Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport TePoel, Dain PhD, University of Iowa "Endurance Activism: Transcontinental Walking, The Great Peace March and the Politics of Movement Culture" Trotier, Friederike PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt "International Multi-Sports Events as Tools for Representation and City Marketing in Indonesia: Case Study of Palembang as Sports City" 2019 Cardin, Lee PhD, University of Strasbourg & University of Rouren Normandy "Introduction et diffusion du handball en France : des origines étrangères laffirmation nationale franỗaise (1922-2004)" [Introduction and diffusion of handball in France : from foreign origins to the French national emancipation (1922-2004)] Kazakov, Vitaly PhD, University of Manchester "Representations of 'New Russia' through a 21st Century Mega-Event: The Political Aims, Informational Means, and Popular Reception of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games" Marshall, Nicholas PhD, Victoria University, Australia "A Cultural History of Australian Rules Football in Rural South West Victoria during the Interwar Years" Price, John E PhD, Pennsylvania State University "America's Game: Professional Football as Popular Culture Lore" Rolim Silva, Luis Henrique PhD, German Sport University "The Formation of an Olympic Nation in the Gulf Region: sociocultural history of sport in Qatar, 1948-1984" Sacks, Benjamin PhD, University of Western Australia "'Purely of their own manufacture': the adoption and appropriation of cricket in Samoa, 1884-1939" Snyder, Cara K PhD, University of Maryland, College Park "Which Team Do You Play For: Visibility and Queering in Brazilian Soccer" Talley, Gwyneth Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License H-Sport PhD, University of California - Los Angeles "Gunpowder women: Gender, Kinship, and Horses in Moroccan Equestrian Performance" Tannenbaum, Seth PhD Candidate, Temple University "Ballparks as America: The Fan Experience at Major League Baseball Parks in the Twentieth Century" 2020 Bell, Lindsay PhD, Iowa State University "Reconstructing Baseball's Image: Landis, Cobb, and the Baseball Hero Ethos, 1917- 1947" Girardin, Théo MA, University of Rouen "Towards an Americanization of Sports Cultures: The influence of the National Basketball Association's transmedia story in France" Jomand, Guillaume PhD, University Of Lyon "Féminisation de la lutte sportive (1971- début XXIème siècle) : pratique, représentations et institutions" ("Feminization of sport wrestling (1971- early 21st century): practice, representations and institutions") Postlethwaite, Verity PhD, University of Worcester "Inspiring a Generation: A critical examination of governing actors, policy and legacy discourses" Taylor, Lisa Jane PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University "Stride: A History of Competitive Women's Rowing in Britain, 1945-2000" Citation: Heather Dichter Completed Dissertations & Theses in Sport H-Sport 06-28-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/2622/pages/120942/completed-dissertations-theses-sport Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License ... 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