H-Sport is excited to announce the addition of a new sport humanities theses and dissertations in progress list. This list will appeal to a wide variety of scholars and help us all be more aware of sport related dissertations and theses in progress as well as who is working on them and the school with which they are affiliated.
The list will updated twice each year (March/April and October/November) to reflect additions, completions, and basic editing of titles, affiliations, etc. To do this, we need your help. If you are currently working on a thesis or dissertation
in the sport humanities please email the following information formatted as so:
Last name, First name
M.A / Ph.D. Candidate, Affiliation
Thesis / Dissertation Title
Please use your last name as the subject of the email to:
For last names that begin with A-M, email the above information to Chris Wallace: chris.wallace@anu.edu.au
For last names N-Z, email the info to Robert Turpin: rjturp0@l.uky.edu
Dissertations & Theses In-Progress:
Brümmer, Kristina
PhD Candidate, Department of Sport Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"The Knowledge of Practice: Sport and its Subjects"
Caflisch, Sophie
PhD Candidate, University of Zurich
"Medieval Games in Educational Contexts"
Clowes, Jeff
MA Candidate, Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University
"Tony Wadington, Football Manager: A Place in History"
Del Vecchio, Michael
PhD Candidate, Department of History and Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Western University
"The Other Great Lakes: Freshwater Fisheries Management in Twentieth Century Ontario"
Dettmar, Benjamin
PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
"Detroit: Olympic City?"
Dishon, Gideon
MA Candidate, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
"'Ludic Literacy': The Unique Function of Team Sports in Victorian Public Schools"
Douglas, Timothy
MA, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University
"Sport as an Instrument of Foreign Policy: Cuba 1959-2008"
Dunkin, Jessica
PhD Candidate, Carleton University
"Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Sport, and Sociability in the Annual Meetings of the American Canoe Association, 1880-1910"
Eichler, Roman
PhD Candidate, DFG Research Training Group 1608 "Self-Making", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Urban Sport-Subjects, Sportive Self-Making and Urban Space Beyond Institutional Structures"
Esch, Joern
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Practices of Subjectivation: Das Subjekt des Fussballs (Football's Subject)"
Fahnenbruck, Nele Maya
PhD Candidate, Department History, Social and Economic History, University of Hamburg
"'...reitet für Deutschland': Pferdesport im Nationalsozialismus—zwischen Anpassung, Gleichschaltung und Funktionalisierung" ("'...rides for Germany": Equestrian Sport in National Socialism—between Adjustment, Equalization and Functionalization")
Fleer, Joshua
PhD Candidate, Florida State University
"Prophetic Gospels and Pepper Games: Religion and Sport in the House of David"
Hartmann, Heidi
PhD Candidate, 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 Candidate, Ruhr-University Bochum
"Von spielenden Soldaten und kämpfenden Athleten: die Genese des Modernen Fünfkampfs" ("Playing Soldiers and Battling Athletes: the Genesis of Modern Pentathlon")
Hubbard, Harold
MA Candidate, North Carolina Central University
"The Boxing Career of James 'the Bossman' Heath"
Jewett, Elizabeth
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
"Behind the Greens: Understanding Golf Landscapes in Canada, 1873-1945"
Keyes, David
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Making the Mainstream: The Domestication of American Soccer
Kodalle, Rea
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"IN FORM(ung). Health Promotion, Mobilisation and Subjectivation in the Activist Welfare State"
Lieser, Martin
PhD Candidate, Bonn International Graduate School—Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
"Glocalization of football supporters' cultures in Japan and Germany"
Ludewig, Katharina
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Embodiment of Happiness. A Discourse Analytical Study on the Role of the Body in Mass Media Discussions of Happiness"
MacDonald, Cheryl A.
MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, Concordia University, Montreal QC
"'That's just what people think of a hockey player, right?': Manifestations of Masculinity among Major Junior Ice Hockey Players"
Macrae, Eilidh H. R.
PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow
"Women, Body Culture, and Physical Recreation in Scotland, 1930-1975"
Michaeler, Matthias
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Teambuilding - An Ethnography on the Relation between Organisation and Disposition in Professional Volleyball
Mitchell, Robert
PhD Candidate, DFG Research Training Group 1608 "Self-Making", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Knowing in Motion: Movement Systems between Bodies and Cultural Discourses"
Munkwitz, Erica
PhD Candidate, American University
"'Straight Ahead and Over Everything': Women and Equestrian Sports in Britain, 1772-1956"
Nicholson, Rafaelle
PhD candidate, Queen Mary (University of London)
"Women's Cricket in Britain, 1945-2000"
Nuhrat, Yagmur
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Brown University
"Fair Enough? Negotiating Ethics through Turkish Football"
O'Connell, Elizabeth V.
PhD Candidate, Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Gods of the Diamond, Heroes of the Republic: Major League Baseball and American Manhood, 1947-1963
Park, Miles Adam
PhD Student, Department of Religion, Florida State University
"'The Greatest Scrapper Who Ever Lived': Christianity and Mixed Martial Arts"
Peters, Christian
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Sporting Spaces—Ethnography of Cologne's Street-Skateboarding Scene"
Pille, Thomas
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Trainee teachers: Ethnographical Approaches to the Practices of Subjectivation"
Ramsey, Jeffrey
PhD Candidate, Marquette University
"Male Attitudes towards Women's Sports in the Wake of Title IX at Big Ten Universities"
Reilly, Justine
PhD Candidate, University of Central Lancashire & The National Football Museum, Manchester. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
"Sport, Museums and Cultural Policy"
Rommel, Carl
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Research affiliation with the American University in Cairo)
"The Cultural Work that Football Does: Exploring Emotionality and Masculine Sociality Along Circulations of the Global Game in Cairo"
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"
Schrag, Myles
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The Case for Peace-Building as Sport's Next Great Legacy: A Literature Review, Assessment, and Suggestions for Applying the 'Slow Child' in the Emergent Field of Sport for Development and Peace"
Shuman, Amanda
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Politics of Socialist Athletics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1966"
Smith, Andrew
PhD Candidate, Purdue University
"No Way But to Fight: George Foreman and the American Century"
Sotomayor, Antonio
PhD Candidate, Department of History, the University of Chicago
"Playing the Nation in a Colonial Island: Sport, Culture, and Politics in Puerto Rico" (completed)
Springmann, Veronika
PhD Candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Favor and Violence: Sport in National Socialist Concentration Camps"
Thompson, Glen
PhD Candidate, History, Stellenbosch University
"Gender and Politics in the History of South African Surfing Culture During the Twentieth-century"
Turkmen, Mutlu
PhD Candidate, Education Sciences Institute, Ankara Gazi University
"The Use of Physical Education and Sport as a Politic-Socialization Device: The Example of Worker Sport Movement"
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"
Wöltjen, Timm
PhD Candidate & Research Assistant, Department of Sport Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
"Fights in Martial Arts as Social Practices (working title)
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