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   Annie Coleman

   Director, Sport, Media, and Culture Minor

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   Annie Coleman

   Director, Sport, Media, and Culture Minor

   acolema3@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-0389
   1045 Flanner Hall

   Biography

   My research focuses on the cultural and environmental history of outdoor sports and recreation, and the relationships of identity and power that support the outdoor recreation industry. In my past life, I played D3 collegiate soccer and skied moguls for the U.S. Now I teach courses on Wilderness, Sports, and national parks as well as 20th c history, and am a founding member of the American Studies Association’s Sports Studies Caucus. Early publications include “The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing” (Pacific Historical Review, 1994) and the book Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies (Kansas, 2004). More recent articles include “River Rats in the Archive: Nature, Texts, and a Moving History of the Colorado” (in Rendering Nature, 2015) and “Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports” (in The American Environment Revisited, 2018). My second book, A Quality Wilderness Experience: The Labor, Sport, and History of Professional Outdoor Guides in America, will be published by Oxford University Press.

   Courses Taught

   Sports and American Culture

   Research and Teaching Interests

   outdoor sports, sports and the environment, identity and consumer culture

Affiliated Faculty

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   Christine Becker

   Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Theatre

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   Christine Becker

   Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Theatre

   cbecker1@nd.edu
   230D DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

   Biography

   Christine Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame specializing in film and television history, critical and formal analysis, and media industry studies. Recent courses taught include Sports & Television, Media Industries, History of Television, and Media Stardom and Celebrity Culture. Her research focuses on the British and American television industries and issues of cultural taste, as well as on the interrelation of industry practices, production methods, and aesthetic conventions. She also co-hosts and co-produces the Aca-Media podcast sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, as well as the Presenting the Past podcast for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

   Courses Taught

   Sports & Television

   Research and Teaching Interests

   Sports TV industry, sports TV production and aesthetics, celebrity and stardom, athletic cultural identity and representation

2. 

   Tracie Canada

   Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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   Tracie Canada

   Assistant Professor, Anthropology

   Anthropology

   tcanada@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-8518
   E292 Corbett Family Hall

   Biography

   Dr. Tracie Canada is a socio-cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in race, sport, kinship, and care. She is currently working on her book manuscript about the lived experiences of Black college football players. Her ethnographic work about American football foregrounds issues of anti-Black racism, racial capitalism, labor exploitation, and structural violence. She is particularly interested in the performing athletic body to reveal how social hierarchies and inequalities manifest in embodied practice and how processes of injury, violence, and care impact everyday lived experiences. In her current and future projects, she aims to highlight what football, and its Black players, can tell us about power dynamics in the contemporary United States.

   Courses Taught

   Anthropology of Sport - The Black Body

   Research and Teaching Interests

   Anthropology of sport, African-American ethnography, kinship studies, institutions of higher education, United States

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   Jason Kelly

   Interim Director, Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy

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   Jason Kelly

   Interim Director, Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy

   jkelly30@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-7162
   1015 Flanner Hall

   Biography

   Soares' teaching and research interests include the intersection of sport andpolitics, particularly focused on ice hockey during the Cold War. Among his recent publications are articles on international ice hockey and détente in the _International Journal of the History of Sport_; on hockey and US-Canadian relations in _Diplomatic History_; on 1970’s “baseball diplomacy” with Cuba in the _New England Journal of History_; on hockey, deindustrialization and film in _Aethlon_; and the competitive strengths of European amateur hockey during the Cold War in the _Notre Dame Journal of Comparative and International Law_. In addition, he wrote the theory and method chapter in the _The Routledge History of American Sport

   Courses Taught 

   PSY 33365 - Sport Psychology

   Research and Teaching Interests

   intersection of sport & politics; Olympics; Cold War era

4. 

   Brian Levey

   Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business

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   Brian Levey

   Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business

   blevey@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-3560
   229 Mendoza College of Business

   Biography

   I joined the Mendoza College of Business faculty in 2007 after a twenty year legal career, most recently focused on building corporate ethics and compliance programs, most notably after accounting scandals at WorldCom and Fannie Mae. During my time at Mendoza, I’ve taught the introductory undergraduate Business Law course, as well as several ethics classes in the undergraduate, graduate and executive programs including Introduction to Business Ethics, Ethics in Accounting, Ethics in Sports and Fraud on Film. Along the way, I’ve served as a faculty fellow for both the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. My relatively diverse teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of business, law, ethics, sports and film. And so my publications range from topics like "Using Film Clips in Business Law: Something Old, Something New?" to “Visa and FIFA: Everywhere You Want To Be?”. With respect the SMAC minor, I’m particularly interested in using sports to encourage students to think critically about ethical dilemmas, whether in sports, business or life.
    

   Courses Taught

   MGTO 30720 Ethics in Sports

   Research and Teaching Interests

   Sports ethics, especially as an opportunity to encourage individuals and organizations to examine their core values to guide their conduct

5. 

   John Lubker

   Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate school

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   John Lubker

   Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate school

   jlubker1@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-5778
   110F Bond Hall

   Biography

   John Lubker joined the Graduate School as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 2011. His research focuses on both professional issues in sport and exercise psychology and leadership training. His academic record includes authorship or co-authorship of 13 articles, 3 book chapters, 34 international and national presentations relating to his research interests, and over $850,000 in grant funding. He also teaches PSY 33365 – Sport Psychology in the Department of Psychology. Throughout his academic training and employment, John has continually consulted with athletes of all levels, assisting them with the mental side of sport and to reach their athletic potential.
    

   Courses Taught

   PSY 33365 - Sport Psychology

   Research and Teaching Interests

   Leadership Development, Professional Issues in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Retirement/Transitions in Sport, Student-Athlete Adjustment to College
    

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   Cara Ocobock

   Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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   Cara Ocobock

   Assistant Professor, Anthropology

   cocobock@nd.edu
   E256 Corbett Family Hall

   Biography

   I am a human biologist who explores the physiological and behavioral mechanisms necessary to cope with and adapt to extreme climates and high levels of physical activity. My work has taken me from the Rocky Mountains to the Arctic Circle where I have worked with outdoor enthusiasts, runners taking part in a cross-country foot race, and reindeer herders in Finland. I am an avid powerlifter who loves bringing anthropology to sport and sport to anthropology. I have also organized and participated in numerous science outreach efforts including the Human Biology Association Podcast, the Sausage of Science.

    

   Courses Taught 

   Blood, Guts, and Glory: Anthropology of Sports; Exercise Physiology

   Research and Teaching Interests

   Human physiology, exercise physiology, anthropology of sports

7. 

   Davin Raiha

   Associate Teaching Professor, Economics

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   Davin Raiha

   Associate Teaching Professor, Economics

   draiha@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-7238
   3060 Jenkins And Nanovic Halls

   Biography

   Davin Raiha is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics, and the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, he taught at the University of Western Ontario and Indiana University. Davin teaches an upper-year economics elective in Sports Economics. He also has research interests in sports public policy -- in particular, the public finance of sports -- as well as sports analytics and the application of game theory in sports.

   Courses Taught

   ECON 33580 -- Sports Economics

   Research and Teaching Interests

   Public Economics, Sports Economics, Sports Strategy, Sports Analytics

8. 

   John Soares

   Adjunct Assistant Professor, History

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   John Soares

   Adjunct Assistant Professor, History

   jsoares@nd.edu
   403 Decio Faculty Hall

   Biography

   Soares' teaching and research interests include the intersection of sport and politics, particularly focused on ice hockey during the Cold War. Among his recent publications are articles on international ice hockey and détente in the _International Journal of the History of Sport_; on hockey and US-Canadian relations in _Diplomatic History_; on 1970’s “baseball diplomacy” with Cuba in the _New England Journal of History_; on hockey, deindustrialization and film in _Aethlon_; and the competitive strengths of European amateur hockey during the Cold War in the _Notre Dame Journal of Comparative and International Law_. In addition, he wrote the theory and method chapter in the _The Routledge History of American Sport_.

   Courses Taught

   1. Sport in American History
   2. Sport, America and the World
   3. Sport and the Cold War

   Research and Teaching Interests

   intersection of sport & politics; Olympics; Cold War era

9. 

   Katherine Walden

   Assistant Teaching Professor, American Studies

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   Katherine Walden

   Assistant Teaching Professor, American Studies

   kwalden@nd.edu
   P: +1 574-631-1309
   1046 Flanner Hall

   Biography

   Katherine Walden received a Ph.D. in American Studies-Sport Studies at the University of Iowa, where she also earned M.A. in Library and Information Science, with a Certificate in Public Digital Humanities. Walden earned a B.M. in Musical Arts from Vanderbilt University.
   
   Her research and teaching looks at the intersection of sport and culture, with a focus on professional baseball labor. She is currently working on a monograph project that outlines an alternative history for professional baseball labor through focusing on Minor League Baseball players and teams. Her research uses data analysis, visualization, and interactive digital mapping to illustrate the scale and scope of Minor League Baseball labor, as well as the historical forces and labor structures that shape Minor League players’ working conditions. She is also involved in outreach and advocacy work lobbying for improved working conditions for Minor League players.
   
   An emerging area of research specialization for Walden is critical approaches to sport data and the cultural politics of sport data.

   Courses Taught

   Baseball and America, Football in America, Sport and Big Data

   Research and Teaching Interests

   
   Digital Humanities, Public Humanities, Archives
   Sport and American Culture (labor politics, race and ethnicity, gender, community identity, sport fan communities, sport data and analytics)
   Critical Approaches to Data