Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945

Contributors

477 Contributors Pascal Charitas is lecturer at the Université de nanterre, paris-ouest, la Défense. His research has appeared in the Journal of Olympic History, the Journal of Sports History, Sport History Review, and Stadion. He received his doctorate in 2010 at the Université de paris–sud and is a member of the north american society of sport History and the french society of the History of sport. Heather L. Dichter is assistant professor of sport management and media at ithaca college. Her work explores the intersection of sport and politics in postwar Germany and has been funded by the society for Historians of american foreign relations, the George c. marshall foundation, and the international society for olympic Historians. she is the coeditor, with bruce Kidd, of Olympic Reform Ten Years Later (2012), has published articles on the allied use of sport in occupied Germany in Stadion, the International Journal of the History of Sport, and History of Education; and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sport Communication. she received her doctorate in history from the University of toronto in 2008. Aviston D. Downes is senior lecturer in caribbean social and cultural history and graduate studies coordinator in the Department of History and philosophy at the University of the west indies at cave Hill, barbados. He has published widely on freemasonry, caribbean masculinities, mutual cooperation and black economic enfranchisement in barbados, and sport and recreation history, including articles in the International Journal of the History of Sport and The Sports Historian. He has served as deputy chairman of the Unesco memory of the world committee, as director of the national oral History project, and was an elected member of the executive council of the international oral History association from 2004 to 2006. Fan Hong is winthrop professor in chinese studies at the University of western australia. Her primary research interests are in the areas of culture, politics, gender, and sport. Her publications include The History of World Sport: From Ancient to Modern Society (1988); Modern Sport, the Global Obsession: Politics, Class, Religion, Gender (2005); and China Gold: China’s Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory (2008). she is an editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport and a member of the editorial boards of the Sports Studies Journal and the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sport. 478 contributors Andrew L. Johns is associate professor of history at brigham young University and the David m. Kennedy center for international studies. He is the author of Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War (2010); coeditor, with Kathryn statler, of The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (2006); and editor of A Companion to Ronald Reagan (forthcoming in 2014). in addition, he serves as editor of Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review and is general editor of the studies in conflict, Diplomacy, and peace book series, published by the University press of Kentucky. Scott Laderman is associate professor of history at the University of minnesota, Duluth. He is the author of Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing (2014) and Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory (2009). He is also the coeditor , with edwin martini, of Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War (2013). Evelyn Mertin teaches english and physical education at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in aachen, Germany, and taught previously at the institute of sport History at the German sport University in cologne, Germany. Her doctoral dissertation, “soviet-German sport relations during the cold war,” received the isHpes Junior scholar award in 2009 and the award of the German olympic academy willi Daume in 2010. Jenifer Parks is assistant professor of history at rocky mountain college in billings , montana. Her primary research interests include sport and politics in the soviet Union and soviet participation in the olympic Games during the cold war. she received her doctorate in russian and soviet history in 2009 at the University of north carolina at chapel Hill. Nicholas Evan Sarantakes is associate professor of strategy at the Us naval war college. a fellow of the royal Historical society, he is the author of four books and numerous articles, including Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations (2000), and Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War (2011). His current projects include a...