Curriculum Vitae of SYNTHIA SYDNOR, Ph.D.

225 B Freer Hall, Department of Kinesiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 906 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 USA

217 333 3877 office 217 244 7322 fax syndy@illinois.edu

PERSONAL HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Education 1974-1978. University of Delaware, Bachelor of Science in Physical Education 1976-1977. National Exchange Student to University of Idaho 1980-1982. University of Washington, Master of Science in Kinesiology. Advisor: Stephen H. Hardy, Professor of Kinesiology 1984-1988. The Pennsylvania State University, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Humanities, Ph.D. Advisor: Eugene N. Borza, Professor of Ancient History List of Academic Positions Since Final Degree January 1988-August 1988. Lecturer, Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) August 1988-August 1994. Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, UIUC August 1994- present. Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Community Health, UIUC September 1996-present. Zero-time appointment, Criticism and Interpretive Theory Jun 2006-present Zero-time appointment, Associate Professor of Recreation, Sport and Tourism,

UIUC June 2005-present. Zero-time appointment, Associate Professor of Recreation, Sport & Tourism,

UIUC. 1998-present. Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cultural Studies & Interpretive Research Core

Faculty, UIUC Other Professional Employment August 1978-June 1980. Physical education and art teacher; and junior high school gymnastics

and track & field coach, Arcadia Middle School, Deer Park, Washington September 1980-June 1982. Teaching assistant for sport history, sociology and psychology

classes, University of Washington September 1982-December 1983. Director of the Laotian Refugee Project for the State of

Washington Employment Security Office, Pacific County, Washington Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements 1976. Robert Layton Memorial Physical Education Honor Award, University of Delaware 1978. Excellence in Student Teaching Award, University of Delaware 1978. Kappa Delta Pi, National Education Honor Society

2

1984-85. Fellow, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University

1986. Graduate School Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University 1989. International Olympic Academy member, Olympia, Greece 1992, 1997, 2005. University of Illinois Honorary Football Coach 1995. Selected as the College of ALS banner carrier at the Freshman Convocation 1996. Named Associate Member of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De

Montfort University, Leicester, England. 1997. Selected as one of 30 international participants at Poynter Center, Indiana University

“Research Ethics” symposium, June 25-29. 1991, 1992, 1995-2013. Chancellor’s List of Instructors Ranked as Excellent by Their Students,

University of Illinois. 2000. Service Award, Board of Women in Sports and Physical Activity Journal 2001. Chichester High School Alumni “Wall of Fame” induction. 2008. Gonfalon carrier at campus-wide and AHS Commencement ceremonies. Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations March 8, 2016. Panelist for Chai Wai Discussion Series on Brazil & Rio 2016 Olympics, UIUC

Center for Global Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Library. November 5, 2015. Bended Boundaries: Reconsidering Sport as Ritual. Presentation at Sports

At/On the Borderlands: Translations, Transitions, and Transgression, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport 36th Annual Conference, Santa Fe, NM.

May 23, 2015. Race and Racism Since Ferguson. Panel research presentation at Constructing a

New Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 23 May 2015. With Nancy Spencer. Ashley Baker, and Nameka Bates.

April 24, 2015. Conceptualizing the Nature of Sport. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Rockford

University Sports Studies Symposium. Rockford, IL. April 18, 2015. On the Nature of Sport. Paper presented at the 41st Conference on Value Inquiry:

Sport and Values. Sponsored by Neumann University Philosophy Department, The Neumann University Institute for Sport, Spirituality and Character Development, & Neumann University, Aston PA.

November 27, 2014. Universal Ethnographic Positionings: On the Nature of Sport.

Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Hui / Congress: Sensual Landscapes of Ethnography. Sponsored by William F. Malcolm Institute of Educational Research & Waikato University, Hamilton NZ Hamilton New Zealand.

May 25, 2014. The Department of Kinesiology. 10th International Congress of Qualitative

Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign With Brynn Adamson, Matthew Adamson, Ellyn L Bartges, Nameka R. Bates; Yoonso Choi, Caitlin Clarke, C.L. Cole, Jessie Daw, James Denison, Norman K. Denzin, Marcelo Diversi, Grenita G. Hall, Kyle Kusz, Pirkko Markula-Denison, Jen Metz, Claudio Moreira, Robert Rinehart, Nancy E. Spencer.

3

May 24, 2014. Nature of Sport, a Prolegomena. Theoretical Archaeology Conference. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 5-6 2014. Play as unifying concept for interdisciplinary studies. Research paper selected in

international competition to be presented at “Interdisciplinarity in History: An Old Method in a New World Context” Department of Humanities, Qatar University, Doha (did not travel due to family emergency)

November 22, 2012. Prolegomena to the Cultural Study of Play in Outer Space. Contemporary

Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Hui / Congress, Hamilton New Zealand. March 9, 2012. Play as Unifying Concept for Neuro-cultures Studies. Response paper to the

Cognitive Science at the Material Turn session, Modern Brains: Literary Studies and the Cognitive Sciences Seventh Annual Conference of the British Modernities Group, University of Illinois.

November 18, 2010. “Plotlessness, Ethnography, Ethology.” Invited presentation to the

Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Conference Hui (Congress), University of Waikato.

May 23, 2009. Invited presentation to the Plenary Session “Narrative and Performance” at the 6th

Annual Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois. November 5, 2009. “On the Nature of Sport and Play: How a Remarkable Book Inspires

Rethinking Our Studies.” Invited presentation to the North American Society Sport Sociology Annual Conference, Ottawa Ontario Canada.

April 9-13, 2008/. “On Ritual, Festivity and Play”; and “Cultural &Interpretive Studies in

Kinesiology at University of Illinois: Triumphs and Tragedies.” Lectures to faculty and graduate students, Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University, Taipei;

April 12, 2008. “Liminality: Contours and Context. DaJia International Conference on Mazu

Pilgrimage and Festival, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.

June 30, 2006. “Controversial Themes in the Study of Femininity and Sport: The Contribution of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Invited presentation to the 6th Annual International Conference on Sports & Culture, Athens, Greece.

May 4, 2007.” On Snowglobes, Peace and Sport.” Invited presentation to the Third International

Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, UIUC, Urbana, IL. June 30, 2006. “Controversial Themes in the Study of Femininity and Sport: The Contribution of

John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Invited Presentation to the 6th Annual International Conference on Sports & Culture, Athens, Greece.

October 29, 2005. “Femininity and the Culture of Sport: The Contribution of John Paul II.”

Invited presentation to The Second International Conference: Sport & Religion: An Inquiry into Cultural Values, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.

4

April 15, 2005. “Moving Souls.” Invited lecture to the All-Academy Symposium, American Alliance Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (AAHPERD) annual conference, Chicago.

April 1, 2005. “How We Remember: Ancients, Moderns, and the Making of Kinesiology.”

Invited presentation to the UIUC Dept. of Sport, Recreation & Tourism faculty and graduate students.

September 16, 2004. “Morals and the Structural Architecture of Computer Games in 2004.”

Invited lecture to the 23rd International Council for Children’s Play (ICCP) World Conference, Krakow.

June 25, 2004. “Sacramentality, Sport Studies and the Radical Orthodoxy Sensibility.” Invited

presentation to the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Champaign-Urbana.

February 12, 2004. “Private Stories to Public Issues: Classroom Strategies for Making Course

Content Meaningful.” Invited presentation to the UIUC Annual Retreat on Active Learning: From the Science of Learning to the Practice of Teaching.

October 24, 2003. “Kinesiology to Be.” Invited presentation to the Lincoln Green Foundation,

Urbana, IL. September 9, 2002. “Accelerating Olympism: The Poetics and Problematics of Nano, Virtual and

Cyborg Sport.” Invited presentation to the international seminar, “Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century,” Centre for Cultural Research, Aarhus, Denmark

October 12, 2002. “On Bibelots and Beauty: A Review of the Avery Brundage Artifact

Collection at the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois.” Invited presentation to the international symposium, “Memory and Beauty: The Role of Sport Museums in Formation of Historical-Aesthetic Consciousness of Local and Global Societies,” sponsored by the Polish Museum of Sports and Tourism; Polish Olympic Academy; and Polish Olympic Committee, Warsaw, Poland.

September, 27, 2001. “God and Sport History.” Invited presentation to the Sixth Congress for

the History of Sport in Europe, “Transitions in Sport History: Continuity and Change,” Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany.

March 28, 2001. “Virtual Sport, Fitness and New Times.” Invited presentation to the National

Association Sport and Physical Education Interdisciplinary Academy lectures, American Association Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) National Conference, Cincinnati.

October 18, 2000. “A Commentary on Classic Western Understandings of the Nature and Origin

of Sport.” Invited lecture to the First China-US Sport Symposium, Beijing University, Beijing China.

March 22, 2000. “Postmodernism and the Pope: A Critique of Popular Notions Concerning

Christianity and the Postmodern”. UIUC St. John Newman Faculty Graduate Discussion Group.

5

May 27, 1998. “The Discobolus.” Invited lecture at the Citius, Altius, Fortius: Social Scientific

and Humanistic Studies of Athletics Seminar, Gothenburg, Sweden. Sponsored by Munciplan Research Institute; University of Gotëborg; and Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.

September 8, 1997. “On Baseball and Desire,” in “Why Baseball: A League of Their Own”

Seminar, annual Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport Convention, Oslo, Norway. May 25, 1997. “A History of Synchronized Swimming” in “Method and Methodology in Sport

History: Is There Any One Way?” annual North American Society for Sport History Conference, Springfield, MA.

May 24, 1997. “The Past is a Foreign Place: Explorations of Past and Place, Foreign and

Familiar, Imagined and Real,” annual North American Society for Sport History Conference, Springfield, MA. (invited reaction paper to special session)

May 25, 1996. “Possibilities,” invited presentation in special session, “Toward a New Paradigm:

Sport History in the 21st Century,” Annual North American Society for Sport History Conference, Auburn, AL.

March 19, 1996. “Sport and the Coming Community,” invited keynote address at “Sport,

Philosophy and the Olympics” Conference sponsored by De Montfort University, The International Centre for Sport History and Culture, and the Centre for Applied Sport Philosophy and Ethics Research, Maryland College, Woburn, United Kingdom.

April 11, 1996. “A Project to Study Sport in the 21st Century,” invited address to the Chicago

Seminar on Sport and Culture. Sponsored by Northeastern University, University of Chicago, and The Newberry Library, Chicago.

March 15, 1996. “Who Was That Nude Greek Guy Throwing the Discus, Anyway?” invited

Scholar’s Public Talk, De Montfort University, England. October 19-21, 1995. “Sport /Community,” invited keynote address at North Central College

Regional Conference, “Sport in a Multicultural World,” Naperville, Illinois. Sponsored by The Leadership, Ethics and Values Program and the Health and Physical Education Department at North Central College.

July 5, 1995. “Symbols, Sport, History: Theoretical Sketches,” invited keynote address at the

3rd International Congress for the History of Physical Education and Sport, Cape Town, South Africa.

April 3, 1995. “Physical Culture as Museum: Curating Among the Ruins of Ancient Greece,”

invited lecture to the University of Illinois Unit for Theory and Interpretive Criticism Spring Lecture Series.

May 6, 1994. “Lovely: Dialoguing About, Around, Through and With Norman K. Denzin,”

invited presentation to the 1994 Stone Symposium, “Taking Stock Methodologically. Validity, Truth and Method in Contemporary Interactionist Thought: Experiments in Voice and Textuality,” Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel H. Kohn)

6

December 15, 1993. “Performativity and Ancient Greece in Postmodern Physical Culture,”

invited keynote lecture to the Freie University, Berlin, Germany. November 6-8, 1992. “The Postmodern Turn in Historical and Anthropological Scholarship, with

Application to Kinesiology,” invited presentation to the Big Ten Kinesiology Capstone of Knowledge Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI.

June 15, 1992. “On Primitive Physical Culture in Civilized Places,” invited presentation to the

“Sport and Cultural Minorities” Conference organized by the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, Turku, Finland.

April 9, 1992. “How We Remember,” invited presentation to the “Ancient Greek Athletics and

Connections to Contemporary Sport” session of the National Association of Sport and Physical Education, History and Physical Education Academy, American Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention, Indianapolis.

July 10, 1990. “Nostalgia, Political Ritual and the Sport-Festival Flame Ceremony,” invited

presentation to the International Sociological Association World Congress of Research, Madrid, Spain.

May 21, 1990. “Understanding Ancient Greek Motifs in Contemporary Physical Culture,”

invited presentation to the International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois.

May 26, 1989. “Ancient Sport Symbolism and Postmodern Tradition,” invited presentation to the

International Association for the History of Sport and Physical Activity Congress, Olympia Greece.

Sept. 10, 1988. “The Judges at the Ancient Olympic Games,” invited presentation at the Olympic

Scientific Congress, Seoul, Korea. Activities in Professional Societies Presentations Not Included Under Abstracts 28 October- 2 November 2013. Applied for, selected, and participated as delegate to the

International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Congress on Sport and the Environment, Sochi Russia.

May 2006-2010. Invited speaker, Ethnography of the University Campus-wide Initiative faculty

workshops. October 27 2005. Panel discussant at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities: The

passion of the Christ, UIUC Krannert Art Museum. August, 2005, 2006. Invited speaker, College of ALS Teaching Academy Retreat. January 17, 2000. Retreat co-leader, The Embers and the Stars: An Inquiry into the Moral Sense

of Nature. St John’s Catholic Faculty-Graduate Discussion Group.

7

November 14, 1996. “Travelers,” in “Civil/Rights/Human Rights: Intersections of Difference,” annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Conference, Birmingham, AL.

November 9, 1996. “(Ur)bane Statuary Times,” in “Sport in the City: Cultural Economic and

Political Considerations. An International Symposium,” Memphis, TN. October 3, 1996. “Sport, Celebrity and Liminality,” Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport

(PSSS) Conference, Lewiston, Idaho. April 25, 1996. “Anthropologizing Barbie: Pedagogical Invigorations in Play,” The Association

for the Study of Play Annual Conference, Austin, TX. May 26-29, 1995. “Beyond the Tale, Beyond the Pale: Re/Telling and Rethinking Theoretical

Interpretations in Sport History,” annual North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Conference, Los Angeles. (equally co-authored with Dwight H. Zakus)

August 9, 1994. “Celebrity and the Third Space,” annual Meeting of the Society for Symbolic

Interaction. Los Angeles. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel H. Kohn) June 3, 1994. “Alternative Research Theories And Methodologies For Sport History: From Mills

and Carr, Through Hesse, To Nonequilibrium Theory,” Seventh Canadian Symposium on the History of Sport: A Research Workshop, Calgary. (equally co-authored with Dwight H. Zakus)

May 27, 1994. Response paper, “Constructing Bodies for Sport and Exercise: Science, Gender

and Race” annual NASSH Conference, Saskatoon. May 30, 1993. “A History of the Discobolus: Fragments of Representation From Myron to the

1990s,” annual NASSH Conference, Albuquerque. May 27, 1992. “Eros and Living Statuary Tableaux,” annual NASSH Conference, Halifax, Nova

Scotia. March 15, 1991. “Traveling and Collecting: A Consideration in Light of the Ancient and

Postmodern Olympic Festivals,” The Association for the Study of Play Conference, Charleston, SC.

Conference Sessions Chaired / Organized July 26, 2013. Organized and moderated Intersect Network for Neurocultures panel session,

Illinois Summer Research Program: Advancing the Capability of the Mind. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

November 4, 5, 2012. Chair and organizer of two sessions, “Sport Sociology, Ability,

Impairment: Cripping Realms and Promises” with seven speakers/presentations, North American Society Sport Sociology Conference (NASSS) Minneapolis.

Fiona Moola (The University of Toronto) “Chase’s Wish: The Social Injuries of Medical

Safety in Physical Activity for Youth Living with Cystic Fibrosis?”

8

A.E. Knoppers & N. van Amsterdam (University of Utrecht) “Challenging Hierarchies of Ability? Active Aging and Disability in Sport.”

Jennifer L. Metz (Towson University) “The ESPN Family”: Denial of Disability in American Society: A Personal, Public and Classroom Story.”

Joshua R. Pate (University of Tennessee) “Experiences of a Football Student Manager with a Physical Disability.”

Dennis J. Frost (Kalamazoo College) “Under Pressure: The Origins and Impact of the Tokyo Paralympics.”

Caitlin Vitosky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “’Let’s Get It Started… Oh Wait, It Already Has Been?’ Conversations Between Disability Studies and Sport Sociology”

November 4, 2009. “New Perspectives on Youth Play and Sport” North American Society Sport

Sociology “Sport and Bodily Culture in Hard Times” Conference. June 30, 2006. Session on “Sports Events’ Narratives.” Invited session organizer /discussant of presentations:

C. Floros (University of Portsmouth, UK.), “The Athens Olympic Games and the Athens Stock Exchange”;

T. Junod (IDHEAP, Switzerland), “Sports Events and Hosting Regions: Finding a Goof Fit”;

Ginny Traganou (Parsons New School for Design), “National Narratives in the Olympic Ceremonies of Athens 2004”;

D.J. Waters (University of Wisconsin) & M.L. Leong (Singapore Sports Council), “An Asian City-State Ascends the Olympic Podium? Singapore’s Socio-Economic Impacts from Hosting the 117th IOC Session”;

K. Akdag, S. Yilmaz, & A. Uĝuelu (University of Akdeniz, Turkey, “The Role and Impact of Sponsorship over Consumer Behaviour in the City of Antalya”; at the 6th International Conference on Sports & Culture, Athens, Greece.

September 16, 2004. Plenary Session on “Community Play” Invited session organizer/ discussant of presentations:

Ljubica Marjanovič Umek, Urška Fekonja, Simona Kranjc (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia), “Free Play as a Context for Child’s Language Development”;

Maritta Hännikäinen, (University of Jyvaskyla), “Play, Games and Togetherness: A Research Project on a Preschool Community of Learners”; at the 23rd International Council for Children’s Play (ICCP) World Conference, Krakow.

June 25, 2004. Invited session chair/organizer of “Theology as Critical Theory” presentations:

C. G. Estabrook, (UIUC Depts. of Sociology and History) “Theology After Theory: Catholicism and Criticism in the Global South”;

Kenneth J. Howell, (UIUC Dept. of Religious Studies) “Cultural Meanings and Phenomenological Manifolds in Eucharistic Liturgy”;

Jose Meseguer, (UIUC Dept. of Computer Science) “At the Crossroads: Reductionism, Relativism, and Theologically-Grounded Anthropology”;

Stuart W. Swetland (UIUC Dept. of Religious Studies) “Theology, Religion, and Neutrality in a Time of Global Uncertainty”;

at the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Champaign-Urbana.

9

February 28, 2003. “Breaking New Ground: Cultural Studies & Sport.” Capitalizing on Sport: American, Democracy and Everyday Life” Conference, University of Illinois.

April 9, 2002. “Cross Cultural Analysis of Physical Education.” AAHPERD National Convention

and Exposition, San Diego. April 13, 2002. “Gender and Culture: Issues of Sport Attribution and Affect in West Africa.”

AAHPERD National Convention and Exposition, San Diego. April 9, 2002. “Images of Sport and Race in Media and Film.” AAHPERD National Convention

and Exposition, San Diego. September 29, 2001. “Biographical Transitions.” Sixth Congress for the History of Sport in

Europe, “Transitions in Sport History: Continuity and Change,” Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany.

November 15, 1996 “Sport Tourism: Nostalgia, Collecting, Travel” session, annual NASSS

Conference, Birmingham, AL. July 4, 1995. “Sport as a Symbol of Cultural Values,” session, 3rd International Congress for the

History of Physical Education and Sport, Cape Town, South Africa. May 6, 1994. “Cultural Studies: Studying Culture Today: Race, Class and Gender” session of

1994 Stone Symposium, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois. May 27, 1992. “Sport History and Postmodernism,” special session, annual NASSH Conference,

Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Reaction paper also) November 8, 1991. “The Body: Ritual and Performance,” annual North American Society Sport

Sociology (NASSS) Conference, Milwaukee. November 7, 1991. “Physical Activity and Postmodern Bodies,” session, annual NASSS

Conference, Milwaukee. May 26, 1989. “Cultural Studies and Sport History,” session, annual NASSH Conference,

Clemson, SC. Editorships of Journals or Other Learned Publications 2000-2004. Assistant Editor, Journal of Sport & Social Issues 2015-present; 2005-2009. Review Board, Journal of Sport & Social Issues 1993-1997. Book Review Editor, Journal of Sport History 1987-1993. Editor, North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference Proceedings GRANTS RECEIVED Outside Agencies Summer 1991. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Periklean Athens Institute,

University of Arizona, Tucson. $4000

10

University of Illinois Grants, Research 2012-2014 Intersect: Network for Neuro-Cultures, Graduate College, Project Leader: Melissa

Littlefield. Additional Faculty: Neal Cohen, Samantha Frost, Andrew Gaedtke, Arthur Kramer, Bruce Michelson, Bruce Rosenstock, Synthia Sydnor, Sharra Vostral, Deke Weaver. $250,000.

2010-2011. University of Illinois, The Council on Gender Equity and the Office of the Provost

grant. "An Untold Story: U of I Female Faculty in the History of American Athletics and Sports Scholarship" submitted on 1 Feb. 2010. Co-PI with Nancy Abelmann. $10,000.

2007- 2009. UIUC Critical Research Initiatives, “Center for Sport and Consumerism.” (C.L.

Cole, P.I). $50,000, July1, 2007- June 30, 2009. (Co-PI’s: Amy Aidman, Nancy Benson, Norman Denzin, Michael Giardina, Cameron McCarthy, Sara Projansky, Synthia Sydnor).

2005-2006. Ancient Greek Heritage in Modern Kinesiology. Ethnography of the University (EOTU) Cross-Campus Initiative Grant. $4000 2001-2006. “Radical Orthodoxy” in Christian Theology. Illinois Program for Research in the

Humanities Reading Group. $12,000 2005-2006. Nonprint Subcommittee of UIUC Library Collection Development Grant. $1300 Spring 2003. “Imagining the Post 9/11 World: A Dialogue on Religion, Ethics and Society.

CAS/MillerComm Event. $2100 (with Carl Nelson). 2005-2006. Nonprint Subcommittee of UIUC Library Collection Development Grant, for DVDs,

videos. 1996-2003. Nonprint Subcommittee of UIUC Library Collection Development Grant, for videos.

$4597 (with C.L. Cole) June 1997. Poynter Center, Indiana University “Research Ethics” workshop. $300 1997-98. Trobriand Cricket 2000. UIUC International Programs and Studies Research Grant in

the Humanities and Arts. $500 1992-93. Living Greek Statuary Tableaux. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

“Shoestring Grant.” $500 1991-92. Subterranean Tradition: Ancient Greek Metaphors in Contemporary Physical Culture.

UIUC International Programs and Studies Research Grant in the Humanities and Arts. $500

1990-91. Collaboration with Bulgarian and Czechoslovakian Scholars on the Problem of Ancient

Athletic Coin Symbolism. UIUC International Programs and Studies Research Grant in the Humanities and Arts. $500

1989-1990. the Royal Macedonian Tombs and the Representation of Physical Culture. UIUC

International Programs and Studies Research Grant in the Humanities and Arts. $500

11

1988-1989. The Social Significance of Hellenistic Age Festivals. UIUC Research Board Award. $2600

Scholar’s Travel Fund Awards Santa Fe, NM November 2015 $600 Hamilton New Zealand November 2014 $1500 Hamilton New Zealand November 2012 $1500 Waikato New Zealand November 2010 $1200 Toronto, Canada November 2009 $750 Taipei, Taiwan April 2008 $700 Athens, Greece June 2006 $1320 Minneapolis, MN October 2005 $750 Krakow, Poland September 2004 $1560 Inter. Cult. Stud., UIUC June 2004 $340 Warsaw, Poland October 2002 $1800 Göttingen, Germany September 2001 $2000 Cincinnati March 2001 $450 Beijing, China October 2000 $2840 Gothenburg, Sweden May 1998 $1200 Oslo, Norway September 1997 $1800 Memphis, TN; Birmingham, November 1996 $150 Lewiston, Idaho October 1996 $1300 Auburn, AL May 1996 $114 Capetown, South Africa July 1995 $2400 Long Beach, CA May 1995 $1200 Los Angeles August 1994 $1050 Savannah, GE October 1994 $850 Lillehammer, Norway January 1994 $1900 Ottawa, Canada November 1993 $675 Albuquerque, NM May 1993 $750 Toledo, OH November 1992 $450 Turku, Finland June 1992 $1220 Halifax, Canada May 1992 $595 Charleston, SC March 1991 $425 Denver, CO November 1990 $425 Madrid, Spain June 1990 $1200 Banff, Canada May 1990 $1100 Washington, DC November 1989 $425 Olympia, Greece September 1989 $950 Seoul, Korea September 1988 $1400 College Grants, Research 1992. “Eros and Living Statuary.” $350. 1989-90. “Ancient Athletic Symbols and Postmodern Tradition.” $750 College Grants, ALS College Dean’s Fund Grants for Academic Development or

Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction January 1995. “’Anthropology of play’ video tapes and camcorder tripod.” $300 April 1991. “Camcorder for documentation of play activities.” $700 November 1990. “Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism video formatting.”

$375 May 1990. “Helen Schwartzman ‘Anthropology of Play’ presentation and video.” $100 March 1990. “Play implements and games demonstrating universality and tradition.” $120 April 1988. “Slides depicting cross-cultural play.” $200

12

December 1988. “Cross-cultural games demonstrating diffusion.” $332 PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS Doctoral and Master theses August 1988. Sport and Culture in the Ancient Macedonian Society. Unpublished doctoral

thesis, The Pennsylvania State University.

August 1982. The Cultural Context of The Torch Race in Ancient Greece. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Washington.

Books Edited or Co-Edited (in print or accepted) 2003. To the Extreme: Alternative Sports Inside and Out. State University of New York

Press. (equally co-edited with Robert Rinehart). (Reviewed in: Choice, September 2003, pp. 190-191; International Journal of Sport History, vol. 22., no. 1, Jan. 2005 by Shirley H.M. Reekie, pp. 122-124; Sociology of Sport Journal 2004, 21, no. 1, by Monica LaBarge, pp. 108-110; Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, vol. 3, no. 2, 2003, by Paul Beedie, pp. 187-188; U.S. Society & Values, U.S. Department of State, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2003.)

Book Chapters (in print or accepted) 2016. 1999. In Julie White, ed., Permission: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Longer-

term Impact of Laurel Richardson’s Work. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers. ISBN 978-94-6300-457-2

2017. Cultural Pedagogies ~ Action Sports. In H. Thorpe & R. Olive, (Eds.), Women in Action

Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics, and Experience, pp. 248-268. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-45796-7.

2016. A history of synchronized swimming. Reprinted in W. Vamplew & M. Dyreson (Eds.),

Sports history, Volume One: An unfinished journey. Sage Publishing, pp. ISBN 978-1-4739-1943-3

2015. On the Nature of Sport: A Treatise In Light of Universality and Digital Culture. In Gary Osmond and Murray Phillips, eds., Sport History in the Digital Era. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, pp. 201-226. ISBN 978-0-252-03893-8

2014. Exercise, Sport, and Physical culture. In Stanley P. Brown, Fundamentals of Kinesiology

Dubuque IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., pp. 19-32. 2006. “Controversial Themes in the Study of Femininity and Sport: The Contribution of John

Paul II’s Theology of the Body,” in Gregory T. Papanikos, ed., An Amalgam of Sports & Exercise Research. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research Press, pp. 343-358. ISBN 960-6672-08-5.

2006. “Contact with God, Body & Soul: Sport History and the Radical Orthodoxy Project,” in

Murray Phillips, ed. Sport History Into the New Millennium: A Postmodern Analysis. State University of New York Press, pp. 202-226.

13

2004. “Essences of Post-Olympism: A Prolegomena of Study.” In John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen, eds., Post-Olympism: Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford International Publishers, Ltd., pp. 164-176.

2004. “On Bibelots and Beauty: A Review of Avery Brundage’s Collections with Emphasis on

the Artifact Collection at the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois.” In Agnieszka Majkowska, Tomasz Kosek, and Iwona Grys, eds. Memory and Beauty. Warsaw, Poland: MSiT, pp. 106-114.

2003. “The Radical Orthodoxy Project and Sport History. In A. Kruger, (Ed.), Transitions in

Sport History: Continuity and Change in Sport History. Hanover: R. Kunz; Schriftenreihe des Niedersächsischen Instituts für Sportgeschichte, pp. 24-39.

2003. “Proem” and “Soaring” (2 chapters) in Robert Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor, eds., To the

Extreme: Alternative Sports Inside and Out. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 1-18 and 127-142.

2003. “Urban(e) Statuary Times,” in Ralph C. Wilcox, David L. Andrews, Richard Irwin and

Robert Pitter, eds., Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meaning of Urban Sport Cultures. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 64-80.

2000. “Sport, Celebrity and Liminality,” in Noel Dyck, Getting into the Game: Anthropological

Perspectives on Sport. London: Berg Publishers, pp. 221-241. 2000. “Cultural Studies of Sport and Exercise,” in Stan Brown ed., Introduction to Exercise

Science, chap. 2. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, pp. 26-41. 1998. “‘How do you warm up for a stretch class?’ Sub/in/di/verting Hegemonic Shoves Toward

Sport,” in Genevieve Rail and Jean Harvey, eds., Sport and Postmodern Times. pp. 21-32. Albany: State University of New York Press. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel H. Kohn)

1998. “(Un)toward joy: Movement, Sport and the Meaning of Life,” in Margaret C. Duncan,

Garry Chick, and Alan Aycock, eds., Play Writes: Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play: Play & Culture Studies, Volume 1. Greenwich CT: Ablex Publishing Co., pp. 275-287. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel H. Kohn)

1996. “Symbols, Sport, History: Theoretical Sketches,” in Floris J.G. van der Merwe, ed. Sport

as Symbol, Symbols in Sport. Berlin: Academia Verlag, pp. 237-258. 1996. “Circumventions/Incorporations: Ancient Greek Ideals and the 1924 Olympic Winter

Games,” in Matti Goksøyr, Gerd von der Lippe and Kristen Mo, eds., Winter Games, Warm Traditions. Munich and Berlin: Academia Verlag, pp. 131-140.

1995. “Alternative Research Theories and Methodologies for Sport History: From Mills and

Carr, Through Hesse, to Nonequilibrium Theory,” in Kevin B. Wamsley, ed., Method and Methodology in Sport and Cultural History. New York: Brown and Benchmark Publishers, pp. 16-36.

1994. “On “Primitive” Physical Culture in ‘Civilized’ Places,” in Leena Laine, ed., On the

Fringes of Sport. Munich and Berlin: Academia Verlag, pp. 180-188.

14

1993. “Ancient Athletic Motifs and the Modern Olympic Games: An Analysis of Rituals and Representations,” in Alan G. Ingham and John W. Loy, eds., Sport In Social Development: Traditions, Transitions and Transformations. Champaign: Human Kinetics Press, pp. 20-40.

1991. “Ancient Sport Symbols and Postmodern Tradition,” in Roland Renson, Manfred Lammer,

James Riordan, and D. Chassiotis, eds., The Olympic Games Through the Ages: Greek Antiquity and Its Impact on Modern Sport. Athens: Hellenic Sports Research Institute of the Olympic Sports Center of Athens, pp. 400-409.

Journal Articles (in print or accepted) 2014. Tag, catch, and other unnatural acts at recess (circa 2014). Research Quarterly for

Exercise and Sport. 85/1: 1-5. 2012. Cultural-anthropology of the Penn State tragedy. Special issue on The Pennsylvania State

University Child Molestation / Football Program / Coach Jerry Sandusky Scandal, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 12/4: 333-341.

2012. Sport, women, and the mystical body of Christ. In The Bible in transmission: A forum for

change in church and culture. Sporting life: Reflections on sport, culture and the church. (Spring): 11-14.

2012. “Plotlessness, Ethnography, Ethology: Play.” Cultural Studies <=> Critical

Methodologies 12(1): 72-81 (equally co-authored with Robert M. Fagen). 2010. “Mourning the Mascot’s Demise: On Prehistoric Origins and Modern Aftermath. In N.

Denzin & C. R. King (Eds.), Studies in Symbolic Interaction. Amsterdam: Elsevier Ltd. 34, 15-31.

2009. Sport, femininity and the promises of the theology of the body. In G. Preece & R. Hess

(Eds.), Sport & Spirituality: Exercises in Theology. Adelaide: ATF Press (Collection of invited, refereed essays published in book form in conjunction with the journal entitled Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World 11, 65-100.

2008, 中介狀態—輪廓與脈絡: Liminality: Contours and context. 運動文化研究 第五期:

Sport Studies: The Fifth Cultural Studies Movement. Taipei: Taiwan Body Culture Society. ISSN 1994-1900, 204-226.

2006. “’Lovely’: Dialoging With Norman K. Denzin, Journal of Sport and Social Issues.30/4

November, 373-382. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel H. Kohn) 2005. “Man, play and games,” Sport in History. 25/3, December, 536-544 2005. “Moving Souls,” The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 76/8, 34-37. 2001. “New Times, Physical Education and Cyberspace,” Journal of Sport and Social Issues,

25/4, 430-436. 1998. “A History of Synchronized Swimming,” in Steven Pope, guest ed., “Special Issue: The

Practice of Sport History.” Journal of Sport History, 25, 252-267.

15

1993. “Cultural Performance and Sport Mascots,” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 17, 22-43. 1993. “The Culture of Nintendo: Another Look,” Play Theory and Research, 1, 1-17. 1992. “Notes on Deep Play,” Play and Culture, 5, 224-232. 1991. “Burning Desire: Nostalgia, Ritual and the Sport-Festival Flame Ceremony,” Sociology

of Sport Journal, 8, 239-257. 1990. “The Philology of Kinesiology,” Quest, 42, 279-296. (with Karl M. Newell) 1990. “The Tombs at Vergina and the Representation of Physical Culture,” International Journal

of Sport History, 7, 126-134. 1989. “The Symbolic Hellanodikai,” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, 7, 133-141. 1989. “Alexander the Great and Sport History: A Commentary on Scholarship,” Journal of Sport

History, 16, 70-78. 1989. “Power, Propaganda and Policy: Philip II’s Use of Sport,” Canadian Journal of History of

Sport, 20, 1-15. Reprinted Journal articles (in press, contributor’s agreement signed 3/10/2016). A history of synchronized swimming.

Article --previously published (1998) Journal of Sport History 25(2), 252-267-- selected to be reprinted in Wray Vamplew & Mark. Dyreson, eds., SAGE Library of sports studies: Sports history. ISBN 978-1-4739-1943-3

Book Reviews (in print or accepted)

2000. Review of the book Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education and Sport by J.M. Fernández-Balboa (Ed.). Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. XXVII, 108- 110. 1996. Review of the book The Sports Immortals: Deifying the American Athlete, by Peter

Williams. International Journal of the History of Sport, 13, 226-229. 1995. Review of the book The Play of the Self, edited by R. Bogue and M. I. Spariosu.

Association for the Study of Play Annual, 20, 1-3. 1994. Review of the book The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, by Allen Guttmann.

Canadian Journal of Sport History, 1992. Review of the book Essays On Sport History and Sport Mythology, by Allen Guttmann,

Richard D. Mandell, Steven A. Riess, Stephen Hardy and Donald Kyle. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 63, 212-213.

1990. Review of the book Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport and the Body,

1830-1940, edited by Kathryn Grover. Play and Culture, 3, 352-354.

16

1989. Review of the book Athletic-Cultural Archaeological Sites in the Greco-Roman World, by

Russell Sturzebecker. Journal of Sport History, 16, 83-84. 1989. Review of the book Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary by Erika Simon.

Journal of Sport History, 12, 173-174. Bulletins, Reports, or Conference Proceedings (in print or accepted) 2012. Prolegomena to the cultural study of play in outer space. Contemporary Ethnography

Across the Disciplines Full Abstracts, 114. 2008. Liminality: Contours and context. 2008 DaJia International Conference on Mazu

Pilgrimage and Festival Abstracts. Body Culture Society of Taiwan Publication, pp. 10-21. 2005. Morals and the structural architecture of computer games in B. Muchacka, K. Kraszewski,

Play and Education. Cracow: Drukarnia Cyfrowa Dimikor, p. 12. 2002. “September 11 and Sport Sociology.” Academy Action Newsletter of the National

Association for Sport and Physical Education, pp. 1-2; http://www.aahperd.org/academyaction/academies/soc.html

1992. “Eros and Living Statuary Tableaux,” in Theorizing Sport History section, North American Society for Sport History Proceedings, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp. 17-18. 1991. “Subterranean Tradition: Ancient Greek Metaphors in Contemporary Physical Culture,” in

Interpretation of History section, North American Society for Sport History Proceedings, Chicago, pp. 19-20.

1990. “Games and Cult: The Festivals of Fourth and Third Century B.C. Alexandria,” in

Preserving Sport section, North American Society for Sport History Proceedings, Banff, Alberta, pp. 8-9.

1988. “Power, Propaganda and Policy: Philip II’s Use Of Sport,” in Politics and Personality

section, North American Society for Sport History Proceedings, Tempe AZ, pp. 49-50. 1987. “Alexander the Great and Sport History: A Reexamination,” in Sport History: Theory,

Method and Innovation section, North American Society for Sport History Proceedings, Columbus, OH, pp. 55-56.

1986. “The Cultural Context of The Torch Race in Ancient Greece,” North American Society for

Sport History Proceedings, Vancouver, British Columbia, pp. 7-8. Abstracts (in print or accepted) 2008. “Liminality: Contours and Context.” 2008 DaJia International Conference on Mazu Pilgrimage and Festival Abstracts. Body Culture Society of Taiwan Publication, pp. 10- 21. 2007. “On Snowglobes, Peace and Sport.” Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

and Couch-Stone Symposium Abstracts. Sage Publications, p. 392.

17

2005. “Femininity and the Culture of Sport: The Contribution of John Paul II. The Second

International Conference: Sport & Religion: An Inquiry Into Cultural Values, Abstracts. St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. October 28-29, 2006, pp. 11-12.

2004. “Morals and the Structural Architecture of Computer Games in 2004,” Play and Education/Spiel und Pädagogik. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Naukowe AP, p. 92. 2004. “Theology as Critical Theory,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Abstracts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Office of Printing Services, p. 55. 2004. “Sacramentality, Sport Studies and the Radical Orthodoxy Sensibility,” Crossroads in

Cultural Studies Abstracts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Office of Printing Services, p. 254.

1996. “Anthropologizing Barbie: Pedagogical Invigorations in Play,” The Association for the

Study of Play Newsletter, Spring 1996, pp. 1994. “(Un)toward Joy: Movement, Sport and the (Meaning Of) Life,” in Abstracts of the Annual

American Sociological Association Meeting, Los Angeles, # 94s30712. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel Kohn)

1994. “Circumventions/Incorporations: The Ancient Greek Ideal and the 1924 Winter Olympic

Games,” in The 2nd International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport seminar on Winter Sport and Winter Olympic Games, Oslo, p. 30.

1993. “‘How do you warm up for a stretch class?’ Sub/in/di/verting Hegemonic Shoves Toward

Sport,” in The Political Economy of Sport, Abstracts of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Meeting, Ottawa, p. 33. (equally co-authored with Nathaniel Kohn)

1993. “Burning Desire: Nostalgia, Ritual and The Sport-Festival Flame Ceremony,” in

Computerized Touriscotheque. Paris: Centre Des Hautes Etudes Touristiques. 1991. “Postmodern Turns in History and Anthropology, With Applications to the Study of

Physical Culture,” in Sub/Versions: Rethinking Resistance/Remaking sport, Abstracts of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Meeting, Toledo OH, pp. 40-41.

1990. “Nostalgia and the Sport-Festival Flame Ceremony, Annual North American Society of the

Sociology of Sport Conference Abstracts, Denver, p. . 1989. “Ancient Athletic Motifs and Ritual in Contemporary Society,” in Exploring New

Directions for Sport Sociology and Philosophy Abstracts of the Joint Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport, Washington DC, p. 25.

1988. “The Judges of the Ancient Olympic Games: A Cultural Interpretation,” in New Horizons

of Human Movement, Seoul Olympic Scientific Congress Proceedings, History Volume, Seoul Korea, pp. 30-31.

18

Museum and Video Reviews 1997. Review of video, The Ancient Olympics. Athletes, Games and Heroes, by David Romano.

Produced by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, vol. 2, Sport History Review, 28, no. 2, 167-168.

1997. Review of art show, Rings: Five Passions in World Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta,

July 4-September 29, 1996. Journal of Sport History, vol. 24. no. 1, 74-76. 1992. Review of video, A Spy in the House that Ruth built, by Vanalyn Green. Women in Sport

and Physical Activity Journal, 1, 118-119. Other May/June 2006. Featured in “Ask the Expert,” Illinois Alumni Magazine 18/6, 13 on the origin of

sport. September 2005. Interviewed for Times of London Online for essay on Society for Creative

Anachronism, history and tradition by Elaine Monaghan, columnist. June 2004. Public Radio featured a discussion of my book, To the Extreme: Alternative Sports,

Inside & Out on Weekend America with journalists Bill Radke and David Browne. March 2004. Interviewed by Steve Miller, New York Sun, for the obituary of Beulah Gundling,

whom I researched for a published article “A History of Synchronized Swimming.” January 2004. Interviewed by Becky Vlamis, NPR Odyssey, about extreme sports. 2002-2003. Faculty member, “Silicon, Carbon, Culture: Combining Codes Through the Arts,

Humanities and Technology,” Madden Initiative Project. October 2003. Interviewed about post-Olympism on Danish radio with Steen Bile, Danish

journalist at DGI (Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations) http://www.dgi.dk/forside/sprog/eng_dgi.htm

July 2000. Interviewed by Eleanor Sprawson, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Australia, for feature

article on the history of the Olympic flame. September 5, 1999. “On Becoming Catholic,” The Catholic Post, “The Way I See It” weekly

column, p. 5. June 1999. Interviewed by Matt Price, ESPN: The Magazine, regarding sport in postmodern

times. April 1997. Interviewed by LA Times’ Lenell George for “Society and Living” feature published

on sport mascots. July 19, 1996. Focus of Channel 3 (local CBS affiliate) television news segment on Olympic

Games, scholarship and family.

19

April 10, 1996. 30 minute live interview with Amanda Smith, The Sports Factor, weekly radio program for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation concerning modern Olympic symbolism and ancient Greek motifs.

1993-1996. Scholar advisor for National Public Radio production of Olympic Laurel, Olympic

Gold, a 5-hour broadcast prior to the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. Funded by New Radio and Performing Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York State Endowment for the Humanities. Regene Beyer, producer/associate director.

Professional Memberships North American Society for Sport Sociology (NASSS) RESIDENT INSTRUCTION Descriptive Data / Courses Taught KIN 140 “Introduction to Social Science of Kinesiology.” A freshman level introduction to the traditions of social science and cultural studies and their use in the field of kinesiology; the critiques of social science of kinesiology from the Enlightenment to present; and the major current research themes and issues of social science and cultural studies of kinesiology. KIN 142 “Sport and Contemporary Issues.” Discovery courses seek to closely involve freshman with the professor’s career and with the actual doing of research. In this course, students are introduced to the major premises of cultural studies, and are given opportunities to explore sport in America through the lens of critical theory. Students engage in small research projects, group work and discussion sessions. KIN 199 “Alternative Sport, Inside & Out.” In this course, students study the history and anthropology of new action sports such as sky surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and extreme endurance races that have gained popularity throughout the world over the past twenty years. Students explore theories and critiques of globalization focused on sport ritual and performance, and are introduced to important works related to the study of the nature of human play, sacrifice and competition. Throughout the semester, students work on projects and activities within contemporary genres and spaces that showcase new/alternative sports; these explorations probe enduring questions such as “what is sport? what is its use, value and function?” The semester’s work culminates in each student making a permanent contribution to the course “library”. KIN 199 “History/Anthropology Surf & Skate Sports.” Same as above KIN 199, but with special emphasis on theories centered on authenticity, invention of tradition, social memory, and nostalgia. KIN 199 “Sport, Play & Ethnography.” KIN/SOC 249 “Sport in Modern Society.” In this course, students undertake cultural studies of modern sport. During the Monday and Wednesday lectures and media presentations and through assigned readings, students will become familiar with selected classic and recent scholarship on sport, and modern society. Significant themes in sport studies such as those having to do with hegemony theory and body culture will be at the center of our studies through the semester. What is sport? What is modernity? What have humans in modernity made of this thing we call sport? How do we converse about and critique these ideas—what are the tools offered by the humanities to understand sport in modernity? These are key guiding questions of the semester. The semester’s work culminates in group work on the cultural analysis of gravity sports.

20

KIN/ANTH 344 “Anthropology of Play,” cross-listed with Department of Anthropology. This course overviews the premises, theory, methodology and literature of cultural anthropological studies of play, familiarizing students with the changes and debates that the sub-discipline of the anthropology of play has undergone in the past century. The emphasis in the course is on thinking of how play is always in the process of being “culturally constructed.” A substantial objective of the course is for students to become familiar with the authorship and writing of “anthropology of play.” As a Composition II course, the class provides an intensive opportunity to learn/practice writing within the genre of the cultural-anthropological discipline. KIN/MACS/RST 346 “Case Study: Endless Summer” KIN 358 “Experiences in Kinesiology Research” KIN 441 “Games in Culture.” An advanced undergraduate / graduate course in which theories and themes from the humanities and social sciences are used to interpret, understand and criticize the large realm of “games in culture,” broadly defined. KIN 494 “Mountaineering: Metaphors and Modernity.” Uses cultural-historical perspectives to study "modernity" in relation to physical activity and health. Specific focus on learning historical-critical analysis of concepts such as "civilization", "contest", "sovereignty", "authenticity", and "nature". Course format: lecture discussion; weekly screenings of mountaineering film clips; and the reading and critique (about 30-35 pages a week) of The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering After the Enlightenment by Peter Hansen (2013). Course requirements include active participation in discussion; and short writings, informal class presentations, and film analysis that will build upon each week's class work and reading. KIN 494 “Ancient Greek Heritage in Modern Kinesiology & Community Health.” Examines the cultural manifestations of "ancient Greece" in the modern Western world associated with sport, athletics and body culture. Focuses on the ways in which academe, athletics, physical education, sports administration, athletic festivals, etc., rediscover, produce, and create images, ideals, beliefs and practices associated with Hellenism in their contemporary practices. Scholarship concerning "the invention of tradition," "the past," and "tourism" inform the tenets of the course. KIN 494 “Nature and Origins of Sport & Play.” The course examines enduring classic and important recent works in history, anthropology and philosophy related to the study of the nature and origins of human sport, play and competition. The objectives of the course are for students to explore theories and issues associated with the study of ritual, sacrifice, dance, combat and aesthetics in relation to sport and play; and for students to use this literature to discuss and critique thought regarding the nature and conjectured origins of sport and play. KIN 494 “Illinois Athletics: Traditions & Transitions. “ The course is an Ethnography of the University (EOTU) affiliated course. “EOTU courses involve students in the research mission of the University of Illinois by engaging them . . . in rigorous ethnographic study of the university as an institution” (EOTU Cross-Campus Initiative Progress Report, January 21, 2005; www.eotu.uiuc.edu). A great deal of the course work involves the ongoing refinement of very specific research questions and topics that are created and built upon each week. In such explorations, the course introduces students to historical methodology and archival research. The main topical objective of the course is to provide students with an overview of the unfolding of social and historical developments, especially from 1850-1950, that influenced University of Illinois communities associated with athletics, physical education, sports administration, and Olympic Games. Students are introduced to scholarship concerning olympism, nostalgia,

21

invention of tradition, authenticity, amateurism, anti-Semitism, and muscular Christianity – themes that are useful for stimulating and challenging ethnographic work focused on the traditions and transitions associated with athletics at the University of Illinois. KIN 494”Kinesiology and Culture Studies: Recent Critical Work.” This course studies six important recent, critical works in cultural studies that have the capacity to impact the field of kinesiology/community health. Taught using methods and theories from humanities/cultural studies, students will work in groups to explore kinesiology/community health and cultural studies from the perspective of the selected six readings. What are the main ideas of the books’ authors and how do these ideas speak to the study of sport, play, body culture, and kinesiology/community health? How can we apply, critique and create with these books’ theses? KIN 494 “Case Study: Endless Summer.” The 1966 classic film, The Endless Summer, is used as a case study, --a lens—that magnifies cultural issues central to kinesiology, community health, recreation, sport and tourism fields of study. In-depth exploration of The Endless Summer and related films and literature will lead to gender, race, aging, and religious studies; and interpretive and historical criticism. Ultimately, the course contributes to the aim of the humanities: to understand the human condition and to further its betterment. Thus, a seemingly simple film comes to lead us to deliberate: “what is it to be human in different times and places? How can I use what I learn in this course to contribute to the world?” KIN 590/591 “Graduate Seminar, Cultural Studies of Kinesiology.” A bi-weekly seminar that engages Kinesiology Dept. graduate students in the Cultural, Pedagogical and Interpretive Concentration in analysis of a specific book, theoretical paradigm, or research issue. Past seminars that I have directed focused on such topics as postmodernism; children’s sport films; Charles Fruehling Springwood’s book, From Cooperstown to Dyersville: A Geography of Baseball Nostalgia; research ethics; “idea of a university”, film criticism of Leni Reifenstahl’s Olympia. KIN 594 “Historical-Cultural Theory & Method (with emphasis on Kinesiology and Community Health).” Centers on the study of cultural theories, methodologies, recent themes, and issues associated with the fields of kinesiology and community health. We work throughout the semester on understanding and criticizing these theories, methodologies, themes and issues as they relate to students’ specific research topics. In-class discussion, précis, selected bibliography, and research narrative assignments will demonstrate students’ in-depth semester’s study and aid in future research and the writing of dissertations. Supervision of Graduate Student Research (For each graduate student supervised, the student's name and level, dates work was supervised, current status, thesis title if completed, and the student's placement, are noted.) Castañeda, Yvette D. Ph.D. 2015-in progress. Performing possibilities for love in a new era:

Expanding on experimental methods for community engaged research. Ph.D. advisor. Expected completion Spring 2018.

Chung, Hyondo. Ph.D. 2015-in progress. Untitled Ph.D. advisor. Expected completion Spring

2018. Haugen, Matthew. Ph.D. 2015-in progress. Untitled. Ph.D. advisor. Expected completion Spring

2019.

22

Wheeler, Stephanie. Ph.D. 2014-in progress. Untitled. Ph.D. advisor. Expected completion

Spring 2019. Adamson, Matthew D. Ph.D.-M.D. (Medical Scholars Program). 2012- in progress. Untitled.

Ph.D. advisor. Expected completion Spring 2019. Clarke, Caitlin. Ph.D. 2011-in progress. A History and Anthropology of Kinesiology. (Co-

advisor with Melissa Littlefield) Bartges, Ellyn. Ph.D. 2014. “Circle More Before You Land”: An Ethnography of Feminist

Leader Dr. Charlotte West. Administrator, St. Cloud University. Schrag, Myles. M.S. 2012. 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. M.S. supervisor. Editor, Human Kinetics Press

Meyer, Andrew. Ph.D. 2010. Sport, Muscular Christianity, Religious Experience and Lance

Armstrong. Assistant Professor, Baylor University. You, Yeanmi. Ph.D. 2002-2008. Korean Cultural Memory and the Iconography of Kee-Chung

Sohn. Lecturer. Seoul National University. Hall, Grenita. M.S. 2006-2008. Dance as a Viable Form of Exercise for Black Women: A

Literature Review and Personal Narrative. Continued as Ph.D. student, Department of KCH, UIUC.

West, Linda. M.S. 2009. The Tennis Bracelet. Accountant, Dept. of KCH, UIUC. Hodges, Aaron. Ph.D. 2006-2007. Critical race theory and sport. Left the university. Schadeberg, Allison. M.S. 2006. Nothin’ But Net: An Exploration of the Internet, Sport, and

American Culture. Academic advisor, College of LAS, UIUC. Kusz, Kyle, Ph.D. 1996-2003. Slackers, Extreme Sports, and Andre Agassi: Interrogating the

Politics of Generation X and White Masculinity in 1990s America. Assoc. Prof., University of Rhode Island.

Hribar, Amy, Ph.D. 1999-2001. Consuming Lifestyles: New Age Renewal, Feminist Bodies, and

Formation of the Self in Late Modern America. Librarian, University of Minnesota. Kane, Kristen. 2000-2001. M.S. Punching and Kicking Ourselves to Health and Wellness: A

Critical Examination of Tae-Bo and the Spiritually Fit Body of the New Millennium. Assistant, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, UIUC.

Giardina, Michael. 1999-2001. M.S. Global Hingis: Flexible Citizenship, (Trans) local Identity,

and the Celebrity Subjectivity of Martina Hingis. Completed Ph.D. Spring 2005. Asst. Prof., Florida State University.

23

Ilundáin-Agurruza, Jesús. 1998-2000. M.S. (non-thesis option in conjunction with Ph.D. in UIUC Department of Philosophy). Ontology of Body as Art. Assoc. Prof., Linfield College, Oregon.

Daw, Jessica, Ph.D. 1999. An Across-Season Examination of the Relationship Between Goal

Orientations, Goal Involvements, and Perceptions of Parent-Initiated and Coach-Initiated Motivational Climates. Assoc. Professor, Northern University, South Dakota.

Munakata, Keiko. M.S. 1997-99. Exploring Women’s Leisure in Japan: The Path to Changing

Funeral Styles and New Ideas about the Soul. Researcher, Tokyo, Japan. Brady, Seth. M.S. 1995-98. From Ritual to Record: A Testimony of Modern Sport. Graduate

program at University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology. Hollonbeck, Scot. M.S. 1993- not completed. Coca Cola Inc. executive, Atlanta Georgia. Uchacz, Chris. Ph.D. 1996- current. Tiger Woods and Internet culture. Chief of Academic

Support, University of Maryland. Herpstreith, Nancy. M.S. 1994-96. Heading into the 21st Century: Athletic Departments Must

Become Internet-Literate. Assistant to the Director of Admissions and Records, UIUC. Krahling, Hyde. M.S. 1994-96. The Gibson Girl’s Sporting Life. Researcher, UIUC. Kusz, Kyle. M.S. 1994-96. Andre Agassi, the Generation X Slacker, and the Recuperation of

Middle Class Youths in 1990s Postmodern America. Asst. Prof., University of Rhode Island.

Spencer, Nancy, Ph.D. 1994-96. “America’s Sweetheart:” Chris Evert, Celebrity Femininity and

Tennis in Postmodern America. Assoc. Prof., Bowling Green State University, OH. Oliver, Suzanne, Ph.D. 1992-94. Juxtaposition and Metaphor: Personal Yearnings Toward a

Deeper Dance. Assistant Professor, State University of Brockport. Denison, James, Ph.D. 1990-93. Sport Retirement: Personal Troubles, Public Faces. Senior

Lecturer, Bath University, UK. Rinehart, Robert, Ph.D. 1990-93. “Been There, Did That”: A Search for Authenticity in Twentieth

Century Sporting Rituals. Assoc. Prof., Waikato University, New Zealand. Markula, Pirkko, Ph.D. 1989-93. Total-Body-Tone Up: Paradox and Women’s Realities in

Aerobics. Professor, University of Alberta, Canada. Hribar, Amy. M.S. 1991-93. Invented Images: Euro-American Perceptions of Native American

Sport Cultures. Librarian, University of Minnesota. Standefer, Chris. 1990-92. The Walk of Life: An Examination of Mall-Walking and the Older

Woman. Prof., University of Maine at Presque Isle. McCann, David J. M.S. 1989-90. Advertising Leisure and Life-Style in Margaret Thatcher’s

Britain. Director, International Amateur Athletic Federation, London, UK.

24

Minseok, An. M.S. 1988-90. The 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games: A Critical Commentary.

National Senator and Chair of National Sport Ministry, South Korea. Treasure, Darren. C. M.S. 1988-89. “And the lesson today is how to die.” Band Aid Revisited:

The Implications of the Politics of Affect in Contemporary Britain. High Performance Director, Nike’s Oregon Project.

Liu, Yaping, M.S. 1988-89. Typology and Control in the Sport Organizations of China. Prof.,

University of Delaware. Membership on Master and Doctoral Committees (name of student, degree, date of graduation, title of thesis and UIUC dept. affiliation are listed) Adamson, Brynn. Untitled. Ph.D. Member of doctoral committee (English). Expected

completion Spring 2019. Yang, Yu. Untitled. Ph.D. Member of doctoral committee (English). Expected completion

Spring 2019. Robb, Anna .E. Untitled. Ph.D. Member of doctoral committee (English). Expected completion

Spring 2017. Fairchild, Ali. Ph.D, 2017. Understanding sport as a catalyst for humanitarian effort: A

phenomenological exploration of the Venture Expeditions tour participant experience , Member of doctoral committee (Educational Policy, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee).

Hann, Lena. Ph.D., 2016. Abortion clinic workers’ approaches to fetal viewing practices.

Member of doctoral committee. Blanco, Joel A. Ph.D., 2016. Deviant Leisure in the Collegiate Undergraduate Population:

Predicting Participation and Affect Using Self-Discrepancy Theory. Member of doctoral committee (Recreation, Sport & Tourism).

Choi, Yoonso. Ph.D., 2016. Self-governance through Reality Television: A Cross- Cultural

Comparison of Weight Loss Reality Television Shows in South Korea and the U.S. Member of doctoral committee. Expected completion, Spring 2014.

Hall, Grenita. Ph.D., 2015. Between Memory and Movement: A Dancing-Womanist-Scholar In,

Not Of, Kinesiology. Member of doctoral committee. Teo, Vincent. Ph.D., 2013. Development and Validation of a Physical Activity Games

Playability Scale. Member of doctoral committee. Park, Youngsik. Ph.D. 2012. Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decision Making In Kinesiology:

An Application in Selecting Athletic Shoes for Walking. Member of doctoral committee.

25

Das, Bhivva, Ph.D. 2011. The Use and Tailoring of an Evidence-Based Physical Activity Behavior Change Program in a Unique Worksite Population. Member of doctoral committee.

Skowron, Myra.A. Ph.D. 2010. Body Image and its Influence on Physical Activity Participation

Among Women Ages 45 To 64. Member of doctoral committee. Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism.

Fairchild, Allie. M.S. 2010. Politica-Cultural Comparison of the 1936 Berlin and 2008 Beijing

Olympic Games. Member of master’s committee. Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism.

Li, Zhi. Ph.D. 2008. Beyond Pleasure Seeking: International Travel and Fluidity of Identity:

Transnationalism, Leisure, and Chinese Graduate Students in the United States. Member of Ph.D. committee. Department of Recreation., Sport & Tourism.

Livengood, Jennifer. Ph.D. 2006. The Role of Leisure in the Personal Spirituality and Religious

Practices of New Paradigm Christians. Member of Ph.D. committee. Department of Recreation., Sport & Tourism.

Metz, Jennifer. 2005. Babes, Bottles and Balls: The Making of Women’s Professional Sports and

Motherhood in America. Department of Kinesiology & Community Health. Park, Chae-Hee. Ph.D. 2007. Assessing the Impact of the National Blueprint: Increasing

Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older. Department of Kinesiology. Giardina, Michael D. Ph.D. 2005. Sporting Pedagogies: Performing Culture & Identity in the

Global Arena. Department of Kinesiology. Ross, Sally R. Ph. D. 2005. Challenging the Female Athlete Paradox: Gender Performances of

Elite Women Athletes. Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism. Austin, Tricia M. Ph.D. 2004. Illinois Physical Therapists’ Preferences for, Attitudes Toward,

and Perceptions of Continuing Education. Department of Kinesiology. Warkins, Jennifer L. Ph.D. 2004. The Socialization of the 2003 U.S.A. Women’s Wheelchair

Basketball Team. Department of Leisure Studies. Trout, Josh. Ph. D. 2003. Obese Students’ Experiences In and Perceptions of Physical

Education. Department of Kinesiology. Pongurgsorn, Chakarg, Ph.D. 2001. A Questionnaire for Assessment of Physical Activity in

Thailand. Department of Kinesiology. Hare, Molly. Ph.D. 2000. Investigating Knowledge Acquisition and Developing Misconceptions

of High School Physical Education Students. Department of Kinesiology. King, Samantha. Ph.D. 2000. Civic Fitness: Sport, Volunteerism, and the Politics of Generosity.

Department of Kinesiology.

26

Walker, Brent. Ph.D. 2000. A Preliminary Examination of Adding the Approach-Avoidance Distinction to the Ego Goal of Achievement Goal Theory when Participating in a Sport-Specific Task. Department of Kinesiology.

Moreira, Claudio. M.S. 2002. Ethnography of Ponte Preta Soccer Fan Club. Department of

Leisure Studies. Ward, Jeremy. M.S. 1997. Disney’s Mighty Ducks and the New National Hockey League.

Department of Kinesiology. Raymond, Judy. M.S. 1994. From Barnyards to Back Yards: An Exploration through Adult

Memories and Children’s Narratives in Search of an Ideal Playscape. Department of Landscape Architecture.

Bruce, Toni. M.S. 1993. Women Watching Women’s Basketball on Television: Audience

Resistance. Department of Kinesiology. Wheatley, Elizabeth. M.S. 1988. Women’s Rugby Subculture: Contesting on the Wild Side.

Committee Member. Department of Kinesiology. Kohn, Nathaniel H. Ph.D. 1995. A Part of It All. Institute for Communications Research. Bruce, Toni. Ph.D. 1995. What We Talk About When We Talk About the Locker Room: Women

Sportswriters’ Stories. Department of Kinesiology. Donlon, Jon G. Ph.D. 1995. Hunting for Leisure: The Social Components and Historic

Foundations of American Sport Hunting. Department of Leisure Studies. Page, Brenda. Ph.D. 1995. Life Scraps/A Patchwork Quilt: Vignettes from the Lives of Brenda

and Jim. Department of Special Education. Goldfarb, Larry W. Ph.D. 1994. Understanding Standing. Department of Kinesiology. Springwood, Charles Fruehling. Ph.D. 1994. From Cooperstown to Dyersville: Cultural

Production of Baseball Nostalgia. Department of Anthropology. Andrews, David. Ph.D. 1993. Deconstructing Michael Jordan: Popular Culture, Power and

Everyday Life in Postmodern America. Department of Kinesiology. Yeh, C. Gary. Ph.D. 1993. Hsiao Yao: The Chinese Way of Leisure. Department of Comparative

Literature. Jackson, Steve. Ph.D. 1992. Sport, Crisis and Canadian Identity: A Cultural Analysis.

Department of Kinesiology. Sands, Robert. Ph.D. 1991. The Black Track Athlete: A Theory of Community. Department of

Anthropology. Howell, Jeremy W. Ph.D. 1989. Meanings Go Mobile: Fitness, Health and the Quality of Life

Debate In Contemporary America. Department of Kinesiology.

27

Undergraduate Honors Theses 2013. Mikenis, J. Cultural anthropology of hooping with special study of flow. Supervisor of

James Scholar project. 2011. Shaoul S. Cultural studies and sport films. Supervisor of James Scholar project. 2010. Behrens, R. Chicago’s Bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. Supervisor of Undergraduate

Honor’s Thesis in Global Studies and Business. 2009. Vitosky, Caitlin. Victor Turner’s Theories of Liminality Applied to an Ethnographic

Study of Retirement from High School Sport. Co-advisor, College of LAS Honors Thesis in Classics and Anthropology.

2008. Paganiban, C. Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and Its Application to the Study of Sport in

Modern Society. Supervisor, LAS James Scholar project. Supervision of James Scholars (I have to update this section) Other mentoring Faculty mentor to doctoral student Daniel Palac for Teaching in the Professoriate course, Fall

2014.

Research Presentations to Instructional Programs August 18 2011. Presentation to Ethnography of the University Initiative Summer Faculty

Workshop and Orientation January 29, 2004. “Theories of the Body from the Perspective of the Humanities” presentation to

KINES 394 Seminar. April 2003. “Children and Play in the Holocaust,” presentation to high school language classes,

St. Joseph-Ogden High School. December 13, 2000. "Iconography of Mary in Early Art” presentation to St. Thomas Parish, Philo

IL (with Dwight P. Campbell). December 5, 2000. “Theory and Method in the Humanities,” presentation to Kinesiology 495. November 8, 2000. “Culture and Religion in China” presentation to St. Thomas Parish, Philo IL. September 26, 2000. “Discobolus,” presentation to Leisure Studies 494 Seminar. May 9, 1997. “Barbie Rituals,” presentation to seminar, “Barbie Does Kinesiology: The

Anthropology and Anthropometry of Barbie,” UIUC Department of Kinesiology. April 17, 1996. “Sport, Media and Mythology,” presentation to undergraduate classes at

DeMontfort University, Bedford England.

28

December 14-19, 1993. Seminars for graduate and undergraduate students and faculty on “Performativity and Ancient Greece in Postmodern Physical Culture,” Freie University, Berlin Germany.

May 18, 1995. “Composition II and Writing Across the Curriculum,” presentation at UIUC

faculty seminar on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Faculty Workshop. November 3, 1994. “Writing Across the Curriculum: The Specific Example of the Anthropology

of Play Course,” presentation to UIUC faculty at the annual WAC Symposium, Allerton, UIUC.

April 27, 1994. “Introduction to Postmodernist Research Approaches,” presentation to Leisure

Studies Research Methods course. February 19, 1993. “The Living Greek Statuary Ritual in Physical Education,” presentation to

Leisure Studies 400 seminar. April 5, 1990. “Understanding Ancient Greek Motifs in Contemporary Physical Culture,”

presentation at the Department of Kinesiology Faculty Colloquium Series. October 1989. “A Sociology of Ancient Greek Sport,” presentation to Department of

Kinesiology Student Teacher seminar. Teaching Workshop Participation January 11, 2006. Participant, “Practical Mentoring of Graduate Students: Setting Expectations,

Resolving Conflicts, & Identifying Your Own Advising Style Seminar. Sept. 15, 2005. Participant, RefWorks Workshop, UIUC Library. Spring 2001-2003. Invited participant in Building an Academy of Teaching Excellence, College

of ALS Teaching Academy. October 20, 1992; December 4, 1992; April 15-16, 1993; September 16, 1993; September 14,

1995, October 1996; February 2001. Participation in UIUC faculty “Writing Across the Curriculum” (WAC), Advanced Composition, and Alternative Writing seminars.

May 17-20, 1993. UIUC Center for Writing Studies (CWS) Summer Faculty Seminar; $600

stipend. January 1995; February 1999; February 2001-2006. Participant in All-Campus UIUC Faculty

Retreat for Active Learning. Professional Development / Continuing Education I have audited the following courses at the University of Illinois: Fall 1992. Travel, Tourism and Ethnographic Representation, ANTH 450B Spring 1993. Proseminar in Cultural Studies, COMM 471. Fall 1993. Seminar on Social Interactionism. COMM/SOC 414 Spring 1999. Catholics: The Search for an Identity, CATH 064 Fall 1999. Religious Faith and Human Experience, CATH 061 Fall 2001. Arts of the Sacred: Crossing the Boundaries of Place and Perception, FAA 492

29

Spring 2002. Social Movements in Modern Christianity, RELST/PHIL 266 SERVICE (PUBLIC, PROFESSIONAL/DISCIPLINARY, AND UNIVERSITY) Public Service January 2014-March 2016. Served as a “strand leader” for the August 2016 Inaugural Global

Congress on Sports and Christianity in York St John University, York, UK. 2013-2014. Served as representative of the Untold Stories research project to Inclusive Illinois;

Women’s Gender Equity Council. With those units and Ethnography of the University Initiative, I helped to plan and implement University Community-wide Celebration of Women event that took place on April 9, 2014

November 5, 2009. Introduction of North American Society Sport Sociology (NASSS)

Presidential Address; Ottawa Ontario, 2008. Academic Control Board member, School of Theology of St. John Catholic Newman

Center at the University of Illinois. Spring 2003. Helped organize one-day UIUC conference (100 participants) on “Josemaria

Escriva” (Dr. John Coverdale, Seton Hall University School of Law keynote) at Bevier Hall.

1998-2004. Religious education teacher, (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, [CCD] classes-

high school students) St. Thomas Catholic Church, Philo IL. February-March 1997. “Mapping the Future of Your Schools and Community.” Selected as one

of 25 community leaders to consult with Eastern Illinois University grant project to guide the direction of the St. Joseph Public School District’s (Illinois) curricula and philosophy.

1989-1999. “Sport in Ancient Greece,” annual presentations to sixth grade classes, St. Joseph

Community Grade School. 1992-1994. St. Joseph Public Schools “Enrichment” Board of Directors. 1992-1993. Cub Scout Assistant Sports-Fitness Leader, Pack 40, St. Joseph IL. 1994-1995. “To Be an Historian . . .,” presentations to fifth grade classes, St. Joseph Community

Grade School. 1994-1998. County-wide elected trustee, St. Joseph Swearingen Memorial Township Library, St.

Joseph, IL. 1993-1997. Board of Directors, St. Joseph Soccer League 1994-1995. Board of Directors, St. Joseph- Ogden Youth Roller-Hockey League 1990-1994. organized after-school Spanish enrichment classes for 140 first through sixth grade

students at St. Joseph Community Grade School. Assisted in writing a successful Illinois Mental Health Association Grant for funding for this program.

30

Service to Disciplinary and Professional Societies or Associations 2014-present. Program Committee, CEAD Hui (Congress), Capetown South Africa, November,

2016. 2013-2014. Constitution Committee. Researched and wrote the “History,” “Aims,” and “Purposes”sections of the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Constitution (5000 words). This Constitution helped The International Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Association to be legally incorporated 17 February 2014 (Incorporated Societies Act, 1908). 2011-2014. Program Committee, Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines

HUI/Congress 2001-2006. Faculty Fellow, John Henry Newman Institute of Catholic Thought 2000-2004. National Association Sport and Physical Education (NASPE/AAHPERD), Sociology

Academy Chair (elected position) 1999-2003. Publication board, Journal of Sport History (elected position) 2000-2001. Ad Hoc Advisory Board, UIUC Newman Center Faculty-Graduate Discussion Group 1998-present. Committee for Europe-USA Undergraduate Student Exchanges at Moray House

Institute of Education, Edinburgh University, Scotland. 1997-present. Associate Member, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De

Montfort University, Leicester, England. 1989-99. Executive Council, Association for the Study of Play (elected position) 1992-2000. Editorial board, Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 1994-96. Chair, Nominations Committee, North American Society for Sport History. (elected

position) 1996-98. Nominations Committee, North American Society for Sport History. (elected position) 1988- current. Served as reviewer of book drafts submitted for publication to the following

books/academic presses: Routldege; Allyn and Bacon (Simon and Schuster);Human Kinetics Press; University of Illinois Press; State University of New York Press; Columbia University Press; William C. Brown, Publishers; University of Tennessee Press, McGraw Hill, AAHPERD/NASPE Publications; Routledge Press; University of Massachusetts Press; Sense Publishers.

Ongoing reviewer of articles for the following journals: International Review Qualitative Research; Journal of Religion, Disability and Health; Emotion, Space & Society; Sport in History; Avante; Play Theory and Research; Sport in History; Journal of Sport History; Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport; The Sociological Quarterly; Play & Culture; American Anthropologist; Theory, Culture and Society; Quest; Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal; Journal of Teaching in Physical Education; Symbolic

31

Interaction; Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual; Qualitative Inquiry; International Review for the Sociology of Sport; Sociology of Sport Journal; Journal of Sport & Social Issues; Sport Sociology Journal; Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies; Performance Studies; Qualitative Research Journal; International Review for the Sociology of Sport

1994. Guest reviewer of chapter manuscripts submitted to Association for the Study of Play

Annual. 1988-present. AAHPERD Research Consortium, reviewer of Socio-cultural, Historical, and

Sociological Aspects of Physical Activity papers submitted for presentation at annual national conferences.

1992. Guest reviewer of 8 articles published in a special issue of Play & Culture regarding body

culture. 1993. Member of judging committee of the North American Society of Sport Sociology Essay

Award Competition. 1998-present. Served as an outside reviewer for scholars seeking tenure and/or promotion at the

following universities: University of Texas at Arlington; Arizona State University; Warwick University (England); Miami University (Oxford Ohio); Ithaca College, University of Michigan, University of Maryland, and Washington State University.

1998-2005. Research Grant application reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Research Council of Canada. 1997; 2000. Served as outside examiner for theses at De Montfort University, Bedford, England;

University of South Australia. 2000-present. University of Illinois Research Board reviewer. Campus Service / University of Illinois 2009-2011. Health Information Services Planning Team (HISP), member. Conducted research,

participated in meetings and wrote multiple drafts of HISP report. 2007-2008. “Illinois Experience” Core Group Member, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student

Affairs Committee Fall, 2006. Appointed to the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI) Board of Directors 2003-ongoing). UIUC Research Board reviewer Summer, 2003. Member, General Education Board task force sub-committee (worked with the

Provost’s office to re-certify 200 university general education humanities and arts courses.)

May 1, 2003. Faculty Panelist, Provost’s Faculty Summer Orientation Seminar

32

2002-2003. Member, General Education Board task force sub-committee (worked with the Provost’s office to re-certify 200 university general education humanities and arts courses.)

2003-2004. Member, Chancellor’s Committee on “Brown v. Board of Education.” 2002-2003. Member, Chancellor’s Committee on “Exploring the Human Experience” 2001-2002. Member, Chancellor’s Committee on “The Unintended Educational Consequences of

Heightened Security” 2001. Member, Chancellor’s Sub-Committee on organizing the campus presentations “James

Natchtwey, World Renowned Photojournalist”; and “Okwui Enwezor, Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive & the Photographic Discourse of African Modernity”

2003-2004. Member, Chancellor’s Committee on Title IX. 1998-2002, 2004-current. Senator 1998-2003. General Education Board (GEB)--Humanities and Cultural Studies sub-committees 1999; 2001-2004. Faculty small group leader, “Academic Expectations at UIUC,” Summer

Orientation and Registration for New Freshman August 1998-2003. New Student Convocation Faculty Participant 1996-98. Chair, Campus-wide Advisory Committee (CAC), for the Center for Writing Studies 1994-97. Campus-wide Advisory Committee, Center for Writing Studies 1992-93. Grant Selection Committee, International Program in the Humanities and Arts January-April 1990. Selected for participation in discussions and activities centering on

the development of a new university publication for undergraduate students. College of Applied Health Sciences 1999-2011 Affirmative Action /Equal Employment Opportunity Officer (2010-2011, co-chair EEO) 2003-2004. Leisure Studies Sport Management Faculty Search Committee 2001-2002. Sport Studies (Institute) Committee 2000-2006. Elections and Credentials Committee 1998-2000. Search Committees for Head, Department of Kinesiology 2000-2001. Department of Leisure Studies Faculty Search Committee (Social Science/Sport

Management) 1996-98; 2000-2004, 2008-2009. Alleged Capricious Grading Committee 1993-97; 1998-2001. Library Committee 1999-present Affirmative Action /Equal Employment Opportunity Officer 1998-2005; 1996-97. Chair, Educational Policy Committee 1995-99; 2000-2001, 2006-2008. Educational Policy Committee

33

1992-93. Search Committee for Head, Department of Kinesiology College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2015-16 Campus-Wide Advisory Committee for the Center for Writing Studies, member. College of Communications and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1995-98. Planning committee for Cultural Studies Program Ph.D. Proseminar 1997-99. Planning committee for the Program in Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research Department of Kinesiology & Community Health Spring 2015-Spring 2016 Host/Mentor of visiting professor Li Huang, Wuhan Sport University, Wuhan, PRC Spring 2014- Spring 2015 Host/Mentor of visiting scholar Yang Xue, Shanghai University of Sports, PRC Spring 2012-present Undergraduate Curriculum revision committee 2005-current. Graduate Program Coordinator (thesis and dissertation reviewer) 2009-2010. Department Vision Statement Follow-Up team member 2009-2010. Host of visiting Professor Fan-Jing Huan, National Chiayi University, Chiayi Taiwan 2001-current. Coordinator of “Cultural, Pedagogical & Interpretive Studies” Concentration 2001-2010. Review board, graduate student travel grant applications 2004-2006. Honors & Awards Committee 2002-2003. Member, Cultural, Pedagogical & Interpretive Studies faculty search committee. 2002-2003. Faculty mentor to visiting scholar Ming Tsung Shih, Taiwan National University 2001-2002. Faculty Search Committee (Pedagogy) 2001- 2006. Tenure & Promotion Committee 1990-93; 2000-2002, 2004-2005. Advisory Committee 1989-90; 2000-2001, 2003-2010. Education Policy Committee 2000-2001. Faculty Search Committee (Pedagogy) 1998-current. Affirmative Action/EEO and Sexual Harassment Contact Person 2009-current Affirmative Action officer 2000-2001. Grievance Committee 1999. Faculty Search Committee (Measurement) 1998-2004, 1994-96, 1988-90. Reviewer of graduate student travel, dissertation, thesis research,

and project funding applications. 1994-95. Faculty Colloquia, Chair 1993-94. Faculty mentor to visiting scholar Denver Hendricks (from University of Cape Town) 1991. Kinesiology Freshman Orientation Phone Campaign 1989-91. Honors and Awards, Chair 1988-89. Honors and Awards Committee 1989. Faculty Search Committee (Psychology) Other “Vanity” biographies (I ceased participation in 2010) 2005-2007 Marquis Who’s Who in American Law. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing. 2004-2010 Marquis Who’s Who in American Education. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing. 2001-2002. America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals. Hewlett NY: 2000-2006. Marquis Who’s Who in America, 58th edition. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing. 1996-2010. Marquis Who’s Who in the World. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing. 1998. The World Who’s Who of Women, fourteenth edition. Cambridge: International Biographical Centre. 1996. Who’s Who in the World, thirteenth edition. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing. 1996-1997. Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, fifth edition. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing Co. 1993-1996. Marquis Who’s Who in the Midwest. Wilmette, IL: Reed Reference Publishing. 1995-1996. Marquis Who’s Who of American Women. New Providence NJ: Reed Reference Publishing. 1995/1996. Who’s Who of Women Around the World, thirteenth edition. Cambridge England: International Biographical Centre.

34