Publications

Selected Bibliography of research publications emanating from faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Program in Sport Studies:

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. Dominic Morais, “Branding Iron: An Examination of Eugen Sandow’s Utilization of Modern Marketing,” Journal of Sport History, (Accepted, In Press for 2013).

  4. Jan Todd, Jason Shurley and Terence Todd, “Thomas L. DeLorme and the Science of Progressive Resistance Exercise.” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research  26, no. 11 (November 2012): 2913-2923. Winner of the Manuscript Honor Excellence Award, Gary A. Dudley Memorial Paper.

  5. 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.

  6. Tolga Ozyurtcu and Jan Todd, “ A Prelude to Big Time Football: Lutcher Stark and the 1910 University of Texas Football Season,” Manuscript submitted (September 2012) to International Journal of Sport History entitled.

  7. 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. To read this article see the August 2012 issue of Iron Game History (pdf).

  8. Booker C. O’Brien and John Fair, “As the Twig is Bent,” Bob Hoffman and Youth Training in the Pre-Steroid Era,” Iron Game History: the Journal of Physical Culture 12, 1(August 2012): 28-51. To read this article see the August 2012 issue of Iron Game History (pdf).

  9. 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.

  10. Thomas M. Hunt, Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008, Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.

  11. Thomas M. Hunt, “Robert Edelman’s Serious Fun and the History and Historiography of Soviet Sport,” Test of Time Series, Journal of Sport History 38, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 465-474.

  12. Thomas M. Hunt, Paul Dimeo, Matthew T. Bowers, and Scott R. Jedlicka, “The Diplomatic Context of Doping in the Former German Democratic Republic: A Revisionist Examination,” International Journal of the History of Sport (in press).

  13. Brennan Berg, Seth Kessler, and Thomas M. Hunt, “A Realist Perspective of Sport and International Relations: U.S. Governmental Perceptions of Olympic Boycott Movements, 1936 to 2008,” International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (in press).

  14. Thomas M. Hunt, Paul Dimeo, and Scott R. Jedlicka, “The Historical Roots of Today’s Problems: A Critical Appraisal of the International Anti-Doping Movement,” Performance Enhancement and Health (in press).

  15. Paul Dimeo and Thomas M Hunt, “The Doping of Athletes in the Former East Germany: A Critical Assessment of Comparisons with Nazi Medical Experiments, International Review for the Sociology of Sport 47, no. 5 (October 2012).

  16. Matthew T. Bowers and Thomas M. Hunt, “The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematization of Children’s Play in America,” International Journal of the History of Sport 28, no. 11 (August 2011): 1496-1511.

  17. Paul Dimeo, Thomas M. Hunt, and Richard Horbury, “The Individual and the State: A Social Historical Analysis of the East German ‘Doping System’,” Sport in History 31, no. 2 (June 2011): 218-237.

  18. Kat Richter and Jan Todd, “Jim Lorimer’s Unexpected Path: From the Ohio Girls Track Club to the Arnold Sport Festival.,” Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, 11(3) (January 2011): 20-31.

  19. Jason Shurley and 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) (August-September 2010): 4-19.

  20. Kim Beckwith and Jan Todd, “George Hackenschmidt vs. Frank Gotch: Media Representations and the World Wrestling Title of 1908,’” Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 11(2) (June 2010): 7-21.

Last updated on December 19, 2012