Kinesiology and Health Education

Jan Todd, Fellow in the Roy J. McLean Fellowship in Sport History, is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, Todd directs the Ph.D. program in Sport Studies; serves on the Sport Management faculty; and teaches courses in:  The History of Sport and Physical Activity, Critical Issues in American Sport History, Sport Philosophy, Sport and Ethics, and Historical and Ethical Issues in Physical Culture and Sport.  In September 2011, Dr. Todd was named a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology for her many contributions to the field of Kinesiology.  

Jan Todd, with her husband, Terry Todd, are the founders and co-directors of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center, the largest archive in the world devoted to the study of physical culture, sport, resistance training, and alternative medicine.  The collection, housed at UT-Austin, is regularly used by on-campus and visiting scholars and by Todd’s Ph.D. students. Todd also serves as co-editor of Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, a scholarly periodical exploring the history of exercise and physical fitness founded by the Todds in 1990. 

 Todd’s research focuses on the history of exercise, particularly the history of strength and the history of doping.  She has written two books: Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women(Mercer University Press, 1998), and (with Terry Todd) Lift Your Way to Youthful Fitness (Little-Brown, 1985), the first popular book to argue that weight training could be used to offset the aging process.  In addition, Todd has written more than a hundred articles in popular and scholarly journals on various aspects of sport and exercise history, anabolic steroids, strength training, and exercise.  

1995 Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin -- American Civilization Program

Janice S. Todd, Jason P. Shurley and Terry Todd, “Thomas L. DeLorme and the Science of Progressive Resistance Exercise,  Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Scheduled for November 2012.   This article was honored by the NSCA with the “Scientific Manuscript Excellence Honor: Dr. Gary A. Dudley Memorial Paper.”  

Jason Shurley and Janice S. Todd,"The Strength of Nebraska": Boyd Epley, Husker Power, and the Formation of the Strength Coaching Profession, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. (In press, scheduled for December 2012).  

Thomas M. Hunt and Janice S. Todd, “Powerlifting’s Watershed: Frantz v. United States Powerlifting, the Legal Case that Changed the Nature of a Sport,” in Samuel Regalado and Sarah Fields, Sport and the Law: Historical and Cultural Intersections, (University of Arkansas Press, In Press, 2012).

Jason P. Shurley and Janice S. Todd, “Boxing Lessons: An Historical Review of Chronic Head Trauma in Boxing and Football,” Kinesiology Review 1, 3(August 2012): 170-184.

Jason Shurley and Jan Todd, “Joe Weider, All American Athlete, and the Promotion of Strength Training for Sport, 1940-1969,” Iron Game History: the Journal of Physical Culture 12, 1(August 2012): 4-27. 

Jan Todd and Desiree Harguess, “Doris Barrilleaux and the Beginnings of Modern Women’s Bodybuilding,” Iron Game History: the Journal of Physical Culture 11, 4(January 2012): 7-21.

• 2012 recipient of the NSCA's “Scientific Manuscript Excellence Award: Dr. Gary A. Dudley Memorial Paper: for: Janice S. Todd, Jason P. Shurley and Terry Todd, “Thomas L. DeLorme and the Science of Progressive Resistance Exercise,  Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, November 2012.

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.

History of Physical Culture, Sport and Ethics, History of Sport Medicine, Doping

• Editor, Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture
• Member, Site and Time Committee, North American Society for Sport History