Janice Suffolk Todd, Ph.D.

Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Co-Director, Todd-McLean Physical Culture Collection
Kinesiology & Health Education

Telephone:
512-471-4890 (office)
512-488-0114 (fax)

E-Mail: j.todd@mail.utexas.edu

Webpage: www.edb.utexas.edu/todd-mclean/

Office:
#22 Anna Hiss Gymnasium
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education
The University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712
Mail Code: A2000

Educational Background

• 1995 Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin -- American Civilization Program.
• Dissertation Title: Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870.
• 1976 M.Ed. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 1976
• 1974 B.A. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia

Books, Articles & Other Scholarly Activities

• Co-Founder and Co-Editor of Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture. Since 1990.
• Editorial Board Member, ACSM Health and Fitness Journal.
• Jan Todd and Terry Todd, “Every Man a King”: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Doping’s Impact on the Sport of Powerlifting,” (Tom, Murray, ed., Hastings Center for Bioethics, In Press).
• Jan Todd, “The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells, and Indian Clubs, International Journal of the History of Sport, 20 (1) (March 2003): 65-90.
• Terry Todd and Jan Todd, "Pioneers of Strength Research: Peter V. Karpovich: Transforming the Strength Paradigm, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 17(2) 2003: 213-220.
• Jan Todd, "Father to a Strongwoman," Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 19 (2) (Spring 2002): 15-24.
• Jan Todd, "'As Men Do Walk a Mile, Women Should Talk an Hour . . .Tis Their Exercise,' and Other Pre-Enlightenment Thought on Women and Purposive Exercise," Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 7(June/July 2002): 54-72.
• Kim Beckwith and Jan Todd, "Professor Attila in the United States," Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 7(June/July 2002): 35-41.
• Nick Bourne, Jan Todd and Terry Todd, "The Influence of the Cold War in the Development of Training Theory in Boxing," Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 7(June/July 2002): 16-20.
• Terry Todd and Jan Todd, "Pioneers of Strength Research: Herbert A deVries: Sixty Years of Exercise and Science, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 16(1) 2001: 5-8.
• Terry Todd and Jan Todd, "Pioneers of Strength Research: John Patrick O'Shea: A Man for All Seasons, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 15(4) 2001: 401-404.
• Terry Todd and Jan Todd, "Pioneers of Strength Research: The Legacy of Dr. Richard A Berger, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 15(3) 2001: 275-278.
• Jan Todd and Michael Murphy, "Portrait of a Strongman: The Circus Career of Ottley Russell Coulter--1912-1916," Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 7(June 2001): 4-21.
• "Significant Events in the History of Drug Testing and the Olympic Movement: 1960-1999," in Wayne Wilson, ed., Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs and the Olympic Games," (Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2000).
• Women and Weights: An Illustrated History. Videotape produced in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine (Monterey: Healthy Learning Videos, 1999).
• "Bring on the Amazons: An Evolutionary History," Joanna Freuh, Judith Stein and Laurie Fierstein, eds., Picturing the Modern Amazon (New York: Rizzoli Internationale, 2000).
• Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998).

Grants

• $30,000 grant from Austin City Council to implement a strength training program for female firefighter candidates, January 2003 to December 2003. (with Dr. Roger Farrar)
• $30,000 grant from Austin City Council to implement a strength training program for female firefighter candidates, January 2002 to December 2002. (with Dr. Roger Farrar)
• $30,000 grant from Austin City Council to implement a strength training program for female firefighter candidates, November 2000 to July 2001.
• $4000.00 Amateur Athletic Foundation Research Award, 1998-1999

Ph.D. Students & Dissertation Topics

• Kim Beckwith—(Sport Studies) Mail Order Muscle: Physical Culture Entrepreneurs in the Early Twentieth Century.
• Nicholas Bourne—(Sport Studies) The History of Periodization Theory in North American Track and Field Training
• Heather Doran—(Sport Studies) Media Representations of Women in the Modern Olympic Games
• Jarrod Schenewark—(Sport Management).

Former Students

• Pam Wuestenberg—(Sport Studies) Graduated in August 2003--A Qualitative Analysis of the Athletic Admissions Process. Dr. Wuestenberg is currently employed as the Assistant Dean for Freshman Experiences at Texas State University, San Marcos.