Thomas M. Hunt, J.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology & Health Education
Assistant Director for Academic Affairs
- H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports

Office:
NEZ 5.718
Campus Mail Code: D3600
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712

Telephone:
512-471-0994 (office)

E-Mail: tmhunt@austin.utexas.edu

Recent Publications

Books:

• Thomas M. Hunt, Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011).

Book Chapters:

• “Sport, Drugs, and the Cold War: The Conundrum of Olympic Doping Policy: 1970 1979,” in Rethinking the Olympics: Cultural Histories of the Modern Games, edited by Bob Barney (Fitness Information Technology, 2009). Originally published in Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies 16 (2007): 19-42.

Articles:

• Paul Dimeo, Thomas M. Hunt, and Matthew T. Bowers, “Saint or Sinner?: A Reconsideration of the Career of Prince Alexandre de Merode, Chair of the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission, 1967-2002,” International Journal of the History of Sport (manuscript accepted; in press).

• Paul Dimeo and Thomas M. Hunt, “Leading Anti-Doping in the IOC: The Ambiguous Role of Prince Alexandre de Merode,” Journal of Olympic History 17, no. 1 (March 2009): 20-22.

• Thomas M. Hunt, “The Lessons of Crisis: Olympic Doping Regulation during the 1980s,” Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 10, no. 2 (April/May 2008): 12-25.

• Thomas M. Hunt, “Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympic Medals Race,” International Journal of the History of Sport 24 (June 2007): 796-818.

• Thomas M. Hunt, “American Sport Policy and the Cultural Cold War: The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Years,” Journal of Sport History 33 (Fall 2006): 273-297.

• Thomas M. Hunt and Jan Todd, “Powerlifting’s Watershed: Frantz v. United States Powerlifting and the Downfall of a Sport,” Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 9, no. 7 (January/February 2007): 7-19.

• Thomas M. Hunt, “Warriors on the Gridiron: The G.I. Bill, World War II Veterans, and Football at Sul Ross State Teachers College,” Journal of Big Bend Studies 17 (2005): 157-192.