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HIST 341-001: History of Sport United States

Spring 2024 -  Christopher C Elzey   -  Section Syllabus

History 341 examines the development of sports in America, from the colonial period to the present. Students will explore how unorganized and impromptu athletic activities were transformed into spectator sports at the collegiate and professional level, and the ways in which sports reflected and infor...

Hernan Nelson S Hernán Adasme Herrera

Hernan Nelson S Hernán Adasme Herrera

Hernán Adasme is a second year History Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant at RRCHNM. He is currently a research assistant on the Death by Numbers project. Hernán received a History Master’s degree from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. His research focuses on the convergence of the Wor...

Jeremy R. Kinney

Jeremy R. Kinney

Dr. Jeremy R. Kinney is the Chair of the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. His research and curatorial focus is aeronautics in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific emphasis on interwar and World War II military aviation, air rac...

HIST 389-005: Sport History and Film

Fall 2024 -  Christopher C Elzey 

Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identi...

HIST 387-002: Sport History and Film

Fall 2024 -  Christopher C Elzey 

Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identi...

Christopher C Elzey

Christopher C Elzey

Chris Elzey holds a PhD in American Studies from Purdue University. He received an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Alabama, and a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from Penn, he lived several years in Europe and Australia, where he played profession...

Pathways to your Future Press Release

Pathways to your Future Press Release

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