Tag: NASSH

By interrogating medical and legal documents, media reporting, and participant accounts, sport historians can begin to build a clearer and fuller picture of brain injury knowledge in sport prior to 2005. This symposium brings together historians of sport, medicine, health, law, and the media to provide much needed rigor to current debates about who should assume historical and contemporary responsibility for protecting athlete brains.

The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) invites submissions for its NASSH Dissertation Prize. The newly inaugurated Dissertation Prize will be awarded on a biannual basis and recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of sport history. The winner of the prize will receive $1000.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Speaking Up, Speaking Out, and Speaking Back to Feminism in Sport History: Fifty Years on at NASSH by Patricia Vertinsky.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Susan: Wha's Like Her? by Catriona M. Parratt.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: AAU v. NCAA: The Bitter Feud That Altered the Structure of American Amateur Sports by Howard P. Chudacoff.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Superfood or Superficial? Plasmon and the Birth of the Supplement Industry by Conor Heffernan.

This workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to debate the histories, meanings, significance, and contexts of sport-articulated populism. In addressing an understudied but relevant topic within sport history, the aim is to bridge the fields of sport history, cultural studies, sociology, and political science, and, in doing so, provide a forum to further collaborative understanding, knowledge advancement, and research dissemination.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: "HE ATE AND PUMPED": THE RISE AND FALL OF D. L. DOWD, AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN FITNESS ENTREPRENEUR by Conor Heffernan.

The year 2022 marks the 50th Anniversary of the first meeting of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) held in 1973 at The Ohio State University. A 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of Sport History will take stock of the field of sport history, highlighting the history of NASSH and proposed future directions of the organization and the field. We invite scholars of all career stages to submit paper proposals.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. Editor’s pick from the current issue: ASSOCIATIVITY, GAMBLING, AND THE RISE OF PROTOMODERN BRITISH SPORT, 1660–1800 by Mike Huggins.