Janice (Jan) Todd, Ph.D.

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

Telephone:
512-471-0993 (office)
512-401-3447 (fax)

E-Mail: jan@starkcenter.org

Webpages: www.starkcenter.org

 

Office:
NEZ 5.700, D3600
The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
403 East 23rd Street
Austin, Texas 78712

 

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
• 1974 B.A. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia

Recent Publications:

• Jason Shurley & Jan Todd, "If Anyone Gets Slower, You're Fired":  Boyd Epley and the Formation of the Strength Coaching Profession,'"  Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, 11(3) (December 2010): 4-19.
• Kim Beckwith & Jan Todd, "George Hackenschmidt vs. Frank Gotch: Media Representations and the World Wrestling Titile of 1908, '" Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 11(2) (June 2010): 7-21.
• Jan Todd & Terry Todd, "Scenes from the Front Line," Hastings Center Report 40, no. 2 (2010): 15-18.
• Jan Todd & Terry Todd, "Reflections on the Parallel Federation to the Problem of Drug Use in Sport: The Cautionary Tale of Powerlifting," Thomas Murray, ed., Performance Enhancing Technologies in Sport:  Ethical, Conceptual and Scientific Issues.  [John Hopkins University Press, 2009].
• Jan Todd, "Sex! Murder! Suicide! New Revelations about the 'Mystery of Minerva,'" Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 10(4) (January 2009): 7-21.
• Jan Todd, "Katie Sandwina and the Construction of Celebrity," Sport and Gender Matters in Western Countries: Old Borders and New Challenges, edited by Gigliola Gori [Berlin: Academia Verlag, 2008], 97-110.
• John B. Bartholomew, Matthew A Stults-Kolehmainen, Christopher C. Elrod, & Janice S. Todd, "Strength Gains Following Resistance Training: The Effect of Stressful, Negative Life Events," Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.  22(4) (2008):1215-21
• Jan todd, "Center Ring: Katie Sandwina and the Construction of Celebrity," Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 10(1) (November 2007): 29-33.
• Jan Todd, "Size Matters: Muscle, Drugs and Sport," Iron Gam History: The Journal of Physical Culture 10(3) (August 2008): 3-22.
• Thomas Hunt & Jan Todd, Powerlifting's Watershed: 'Frantz, et.al, vs. the International Powerlifting Federation': The Lawsuit that Changed the Nature of a Sport, " Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 9[3] [January/February 2007]: 7-19.

Grants

• 2010     Minority Recruiting Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, $23,000.

• 2010     Humanities Texas, $4,000 grant to support 1968 Olympic Team project (with Thomas Hunt)

• 2009     $2,000,000 from The Nelda C. & H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation to support additional construction at the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports [With Terry Todd].

• 2008     $1,000,000 from Joe and Betty Weider Foundation for H. J. Lutcher Stark Center.  [With Terry Todd].

• 2008     $107,000 gift from Hoffman Foundation of Dallas, Texas to support Stark Center. [With Terry Todd].

• 2008     $51,000 grant from National Strength and Conditioning Association to support graduate students studying the history of strength and conditioning.

• 2008     $27,961 grant from City of Austin for Remedial Strength Training for Austin Fire Department Academy Applicants. 

• 2006      $3,500,000  grant from the Nelda C. and  H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation of Orange, Texas [with Terry Todd].  This grant was formally accepted by the Board of Regents at its November 2006 meeting and the funds from this grant were used to build Phase One the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports in the North End Zone Building.