Annie Coleman
Director, Sport, Media, and Culture Minor and Associate Professor of American Studies
- Office
- 1045 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5611 - Phone
- +1 574-631-0389
- acolema3@nd.edu
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, Into the Great Outdoors: A History of Professional Guides in America, will be published by Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught
Sports and American Culture
Sports and Environment
Sports and Recreation Senior Seminar
Research Interests
outdoor sports, sports and the environment, identity and consumer culture
Education
Ph.D. in History, University of Colorado, Boulder
M.A. in History, University of Colorado, Boulder
B.A. in History, Williams College