The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism

Contributors

451 John Bale holds degrees from the University of London and has taught at the Open University, Keele University, and the University of Aarhus. His main academic interest has been geographical dimensions of sport. He has authored many articles and books including Sport, Space, and the City (1993), Landscapes of Modern Sport (1994), Kenyan Running: Movement Culture, Geography and Global Change (with Joe Sang, 1996), and Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda (2002). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Jyvaskyla, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Queensland. Currently he is an emeritus professor at Keele University and an honorary professor at Queensland and De Montfort Universities. His current research is focused on antisport sentiments in literature. Susan Brownell is professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A former nationally ranked track- and-field athlete in the United States, she was the heptathlon champion in the 1986 Chinese National College Games during a year of language study in Beijing. This experience formed the basis for her book Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People’s Republic (1995). She is also co-editor (with Jeffrey Wasserstrom) of Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader (2002). From 2000–2007 she was a member of the Research Council of the Olympic Studies Center of the International Olympic Committee. Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (2008) examines the scope for multiculturalism amidst the symbolism of Western civilization that predominates at the Olympic Games. Contributors contributors 452 Mark Dyreson is an associate professor of kinesiology and history at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in American cultural history, particularly in the role of sport in American society. He earned a doctorate in history from the University of Arizona in 1989. He currently serves as the president of the North American Society for Sport History, as an associate editor for the International Journal of the History of Sport, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport History and Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies. He has written extensively on sport and nationalism, and on sport and the social construction of racial and ethnic identities. He is particularly interested in the intersection of race, sport, and science in modern cultures. He is the author of Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience (1998), Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance: America at the Olympics (2008), and the editor, with J. A. Mangan, of Sport in American Society: Insularity, Exceptionalism, and “Imperialism” (2007). He has published more than a dozen chapters in books and more than two dozen articles in refereed journals. Henning Eichberg, D.Phil. with habilitation, is a cultural sociologist and historian. He is a professor at the University of Southern Denmark and researches at the Centre for Sports, Health, and Civil Society in Gerlev, Denmark . Formerly professor in Osnabrück/Vechta, Odense, and Copenhagen, Eichberg has also lectured at Austrian, English, Finnish, French, Japanese, Polish, Scottish, and Swedish universities. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Stadion, International Journal of the History of Sport, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, International Journal of Eastern Sports and Physical Education (Suwon, Korea), and Ido-Movement for Culture (Rzeszów, Poland). Eichberg has cofounded the Institut International d’Anthropologie Corporelle (Rennes, France, 1987), Centre for the Study of Body Culture (Tsukuba , Japan, 2002), and International Network for the Marxist Study of Sport (2005). His research has dealt with the history, sociology, and psychology of body culture and sport; the anthropology of movement culture; the history contributors 453 of technology; and democracy, movement, and identity. His present main fields of research are international comparative studies of body cultures, Sport for All, and sports policies. He has published more than thirty books, including Leistung, Spannung, Geschwindigkeit (1978), Body Cultures (1998), and The People of Democracy (2004). Gerald R. Gems received his PhD in physical education from the University of Maryland in 1989. He is the author of Sports in North America: A Documentary History (1995); Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago (1997); For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values (2000); The Athletic Crusade (2006); and numerous articles on sport history. He served as president of the North American Society for Sport History (2003–5), and is...