Tuesday, May 22, 2007

CONFERENCE: British Society for Sports History

BSSH, University of Stirling, 24th-26th August 2007

Deadline for abstracts, registration forms and payments is 31 May 2007.

The form and other information are available on-line at:
http://www.sports.stir.ac.uk/NewSite/BSSH/FrontPage.htm

Monday, May 21, 2007

JOB: Chair, Department of Health and Kinesiology, UT-Tyler

Position: Chair of the Department of Health and Kinesiology
Salary: Unspecified
Institution: University of Texas at Tyler
Location: Texas
Date posted: 5/21/2007

The University of Texas at Tyler

Chair, Department of Health and Kinesiology

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Chair of the Department of Health and Kinesiology.

Overview of Position: The chair provides leadership for all of the Department's academic, financial and human resource concerns. In addition to maintaining the teaching, scholarship and service responsibilities of a faculty member, the chair represents the Department with both internal and external constituencies.

Qualifications: The successful applicant will provide evidence of: (a) professional achievement commensurate with appointment in the Department as associate or full professor, including strong record of scholarship; (b) ability to effectively lead and manage the Department; (c) commitment to academic excellence; (d) commitment to collegiality; and (e) ability to communicate effectively with faculty, staff, administrators and members of the surrounding community. Ideally, the successful applicant will have experience with extramural funding.

General Information: The Department of Health and Kinesiology, within the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, offers three undergraduate and three master's degrees: B.S.-Health Studies, B.S.-Kinesiology, B.A.-Health and Kinesiology, M.Ed.-Health and Kinesiology, M.S.-Clinical Exercise Physiology, and M.S.-Kinesiology. In addition, an M.S.-Health Studies Degree has been proposed. The Department will have ten full-time faculty members with filling of the chair position. Enrollment in Department courses has increased dramatically over the past 5-6 years; semester credit hours surpassed 6,000 in the 2005-06 academic year. The Department is housed in the Jean Lancaster Academic Wing of the beautiful Herrington Patriot Center, which was completed in 2003.

UT Tyler is one of 15 components of the University of Texas System. Another component, The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, a clinical and research institution, is also located in Tyler. Tyler (population ca. 85,000) is located in northeast Texas, about 90 miles east of Dallas, an area known for its lakes, rolling hills, piney woods and beautiful flowers. UT Tyler is in a period of rapid growth (enrollment is close to 6,000) and transition, changing in recent years from an upper-division and master's degree-granting university for commuter students to a comprehensive, more-traditional university. The first doctoral programs will start soon.

Starting date of appointment: As soon as August 2007; no later than August 2008.

Salary: Negotiable and commensurate with qualifications.

To apply, submit C.V. and list of five professional references, with current position and contact information for each, to Chair, Search Committee, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, The University of Texas at Tyler, 3900 University Blvd., Tyler, TX 75799.

The University of Texas at Tyler is an EEO/AA Employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Friday, May 18, 2007

JOB: Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami, Ohio

Instructor/Visiting Assistant Professor
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
Department of Physical Education, Health & Sports Studies
Sport Studies Program

Responsibilities:
Instructor/Visiting Assistant Professor to teach courses in the
socio-cultural aspects of sport and the body; advise undergraduate
students in Sport Studies major; other duties as assigned by department.

Qualifications:
Require: ABD (for appointment as Instructor); PhD (for appointment as
Visiting Assistant Professor) in Sport Sociology or closely related area;
expertise in social class relations and sport as well as the intersections
of class, gender, race and sexuality in sport; evidence of teaching
ability. Desire: Expertise in globalization of sport; knowledge or
background in leisure or sociology of leisure and/or the sociology of the
body.

Contact Information:
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae and three letters of
recommendation to Jennifer Edwards, 106 Phillips Hall. Contact phone
number is 513/529-2700. Contact fax number is 513/529-5006. Contact email
address is edwardjl@muohio.edu. For more information or questions about
this position, contact Dr. Mary McDonald at 513/529-2724 or
mcdonamg@muoio.edu. Screening of applications beings June 1, 2007 and will
continue until the position is filled.

The Department of Physical Education, Health and Sport Studies and Miami
University
The Department of Physical Education, Health and Sport Studies at Miami
University has 30 full time faculty members who are deeply invested in
offering high quality educational and research experiences. Currently, the
department offers seven undergraduate majors, two undergraduate minors,
and two Master of Science (M.S.) degrees with two program concentrations
within each degree. The Master of Science in Sport Studies degree
includes program concentrations in a) Sport Organization and, b) Sport
Behavior and Performance. The Master of Science in Exercise and Health
Studies degree includes program concentrations in a) Exercise Science, and
b) Health Studies. Recently the Department has changed its name and will
soon be know as the Department of Kinesiology and Health.

Miami University’s early 200-year-old tradition focuses on high quality
education through more than 100 undergraduate programs, over 50 master's
programs, and several doctoral degree programs. One of the eight original
"Public Ivy" schools, Miami is known as one of the nation's top public
undergraduate universities and one of the best educational values in
America. More than 5,300 faculty and staff members teach and support
20,000 undergraduate and 1,380 graduate students at the Oxford campus and
two regional campuses. The average class size is 29 students—affording the
personal attention ordinarily found only at much smaller institutions.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

CONFERENCE: NASSS 2007 - Beyond Other Boundaries: Sport within/against/across Borders

Call for Sessions

The 28th annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of
Sport (NASSS) will be held 31 October through 3 November 2007 at the Marriott
City Center Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The theme for this year’s
conference is “Beyond Other Boundaries: Sport within/against/across Borders.”
Those interested in organizing a session should submit a session proposal by May
25, 2007 to the program chair, C. Richard King, via the Session Proposal form
(http://nasss.org/2007/proposals.php).

CLR James classic work, Beyond a Boundary, serves a touchstone and inspiration
for this year’s theme, drawing on his critical engagements with cricket in the
West Indies to encourage discussions of physical cultural studies that explore
his core concerns, namely the complex, and often contradictory, connections
between culture and politics, race and class, local and international, as well
as structure and autobiography. At the same time, this year’s theme seeks to
examine issues unthought by James, including

(a) diaspora and transnationalism,
(b) transgression and containment,
(c) hemispheric and comparative approaches to sport, and
(d) dis/identfications.

Indeed, “Beyond Other Boundaries,” ask its participants to think critically
about the ways in which sport makes possible the creation, crossing,
contestation, and complication of social boundaries, while prompting reflections
on the politics of knowledge, culture, and identity central to playing,
consuming, and studying sport. As such, we encourage diverse approaches to
physical cultural studies from a range of theoretical, methodological,
(trans)national, social, and political positions. Even as we trace the sharp
edges and expose novel opening in sport studies, we welcome sessions not
directly related to the conference theme. As in the past, we solicit session
titles with very broad themes as in the past (e.g., “Sport and the Media”) along
with sessions that promote specific or focused content related to the theme.

For further information or discuss emergent ideas, please contact Program Chair
C. Richard King or a member of the program committee:

C. Richard King, Program Chair
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Washington State University
P.O. Box 644010
Pullman, WA 99164-4010
Office: 509-335-2605
Fax: 509-335-8338
Email/Courriel: crking [at] wsu.edu

C.L. Cole, clcole [at] uiuc.edu
Magaret Duncan, mduncan [at] uwm.edu
Audrey Giles, agiles [at] uottawa.ca
Janet Harris, jcharris [at] mail.sdsu.edu
Billy Hawkins, bhawk [at] uga.edu
Nicola Potopsingh, 9np1 [at] qlink.queensu.ca
Michael Silk, msilk [at] umd.edu
Nancy Spencer, nspencr [at] bgsu.edu
Jane Stangl, jstangl [at] email.smith.edu
Steve Walk, swalk [at] Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
Eli Wolff, e.wolff [at] neu.edu

An Early Reminder: A second call seeking papers and posters will begin shortly
after the 2007 sessions have been proposed and finalized. The final deadline for
submitting paper abstracts and poster abstracts will be June 30, 2007. Look for
the “2007 Call for Paper and Poster Abstracts” as well as more details about
keynote speakers and conference activities in early May on the NASSS conference
website.

General Time Line for 2007 Conference Planning:
May: Call for sessions
May - June: call for paper abstracts
June 30: deadline for abstracts
July: notification of paper acceptance sent to authors
Late July: publication of preliminary program


C. Richard King
Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Box 644010
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4010

509-335-2605
509-335-8338 (fax)

http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/richard_king.php

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

FELLOWSHIP: The National Sporting Library

John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg,
Virginia
http://www.nsl.org/fellowship.html
Deadline: September 30, 2007

The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in
horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from
university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum
professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Located 42 miles
west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of
over 16,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The
collection covers many aspects of equestrian and outdoor sports, including
foxhunting, horse racing, polo, dressage, eventing, coaching, shooting,
and angling. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare
volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several
languages. The fellowship covers approved projects of up to twelve months
in duration, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific
works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary
housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided. For more
information, visit our website or contact Elizabeth Tobey, Fellowship
Coordinator, 540-687-6542 x 25 or fellowship@nsl.org.

JOB: Dept Head, UNCG

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Exercise and Sport Science
Department Head Position for August 2008

Position: Full Professor, Head, Department of Exercise and Sport Science

The Department of Exercise and Sport Science invites nominations and applications from talented and dynamic national leaders who will cultivate excellence in research, teaching and service and serve as a strong departmental advocate. The Department of Exercise and Sport Science at UNCG has a long history of excellence in teaching and scholarship and is one of 5 departments in the School of Health and Human Performance. The Department houses 20 full-time faculty and nearly 600 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, and offers B.S., M.S., M.Ed., Ph.D. and Ed.D. degrees (see http://www.uncg.edu/ess for more information).

Qualifications:
Required qualifications: Earned doctorate in Exercise and Sport Science/Kinesiology or related area; demonstrated record of nationally recognized scholarship, external funding and excellence in teaching meriting the rank of full professor with tenure. Candidates with interest and experience in cross-disciplinary, collaborative research and teaching, and who have demonstrated success working with diverse groups of students and faculty are desired.

Preferred Qualifications: Candidates should have strong democratic leadership qualities and appreciation for the diversity of sub-disciplines across exercise and sport science and kinesiology. Previous academic administrative experience is desirable (e.g. gaining and maintaining academic accreditation, curriculum planning and evaluation, experience facilitating or leading interdisciplinary collaborations).
Administrative Responsibilities: Duties include administration and oversight of the general operations of the Department, including: curricular and budgetary management; ongoing program development, evaluation, and accreditation; faculty recruitment, development, and evaluation; student recruitment and retention; development and outreach activities. Heads also serve as members of the School of HHP administrative team.

Application: Review of applications will begin July 1st, 2007 and continue until the position is filled.

Applications should include a letter of interest, current vitae and the names, addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of five references. Candidates will be notified before references are contacted.

All applications should be submitted electronically to: Dr. Sandra Shultz, Search Committee Chair, Dept of Exercise & Sport Science, sjshultz@uncg.edu. UNCG is an EEO/AA employer.

General Information: UNC Greensboro, one of 16 campuses in the University of North Carolina system, is a Research University-High Research Activity with over 16,000 students, including 3,000 graduate students. Among UNC Research Universities, UNCG ranks 4th in average SAT scores. The diversity of the faculty and students of HHP is 20% and 30%, respectively, from non-white ethnic groups, well above the national average in both categories. The department has a strong commitment to curriculum and
faculty diversity. There is a particular interest in identifying members of underrepresented minorities to join the UNCG faculty. The department is located in a modern facility with state of the art laboratory, gymnasia and classroom space.. For details and current information, please check the UNCG job postings at: http://provost.uncg.edu/epa/JobLists/index.asp.

Please address questions to Dr. Sandra Shultz via email: sjshultz@uncg.edu.

JOB: Sports and Fitness Administration, University of Houston

Faculty Position

Clinical Assistant Professor – Sports and Fitness Administration

Description:

The University of Houston’s Department of Health and Human Performance is seeking candidates for a clinical assistant professor position in the Sport and Fitness Administration Program area. The position will require the candidate to teach, and actively recruit prospective graduate students to the program. The candidate must also serve as a liaison between the Sport and Fitness Administration Program and Houston area sport/ fitness entities and organizations to facilitate the acquisition of internships, external funding, and professional employment opportunities. The position is a nine-month appointment with summer school teaching optional. The effective date of employment will be August 1, 2007.

Qualifications:

A doctorate in kinesiology, sports management or administration or a closely related discipline is required. Preference will be given to candidates with an established record of teaching as well as the ability and personal demeanor to develop a strong internship program and recruit high quality graduate students.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will teach a maximum of two courses in the Sport and Fitness Administration Program area each semester, serve a graduate advisor, actively recruit prospective graduate students, develop articulation agreements between sport /fitness organizations and entities, and participate in routine service activities incumbent upon university faculty.

Salary:

Commensurate with qualifications.

University Description:

The University of Houston is a major urban research institution with a focus on urban issues and problems. The University has over 35,000 students in 14 colleges. The University of Houston is located near the renowned Texas Medical Center and NASA/Johnson Space Center providing faculty with a variety of opportunities to conduct interdisciplinary research. Houston is the largest city in Texas and offers a large variety of professional, cultural and personal opportunities.

Application Procedures:

Submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, academic transcripts, and three letters of reference to:

Dr. Demetrius Pearson, Chair
Clinical Assistant Professor Search Committee
Department of Health and Human Performance
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-6015

e-mail: Dpearson@uh.edu

Review of application materials will begin, June 1st, 2007 and continue until the position is filled.

University Description: The University of Houston is a major urban research institution with a focus on urban issues and problems. The University has over 35,000 students in 14 colleges. The University of Houston is located near the renowned Texas Medical Center and NASA/Johnson Space Center providing faculty with a variety of opportunities to conduct interdisciplinary research. Houston is the largest city in Texas and offers a large variety of professional, cultural and personal opportunities.

The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Monday, May 07, 2007

CFP: The European Committee for Sports History

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Committee for Sports History

XIIth
Annual Conference
20-22 September 2007

“Sport and the Arts: Construction and reality”

The twelfth International Congress of The European Committee for Sports History (CESH) will be hosted by the faculty of humanities, at University of Southern Brittany, FRANCE, September 20-22, 2007.

Both established and emerging scholars are invited to engage in an interdisciplinary reflection on the use of artistic representations and/or performances as source material as well as on the type of “reality” such artistic “constructions” mediate, in a critical, diachronic, possibly dialectical and cross-community perspective.

There is again the annual competition for the best paper by a junior scholar (aged 35 and under). See www.cesh.eu

Submissions are welcome from all relevant disciplines in any European language.

Anyone wishing to submit a twenty minute paper for consideration is invited to send a 200-word abstract to congress2007@cesh.eu by May, 31th 2007.

Further information about the topic, deadlines, price, location, accommodation, etc… may be obtained from http://www.univ-ubs.fr/CESH2007, which is being updated daily (should there be any information you may not be able to access, please do forward your questions to myself at the above-mentioned address, and allow a few days for the
reply…).


See also for the moment: http://www.cesh.eu/Folder%20CESH2007.pdf


Laurent DANIEL, PhD
vice.president@cesh.eu
------
Patrick STUMM, PhD
general.secretary@cesh.eu

Friday, May 04, 2007

JOB: Clinical Assistant Professor – Sports and Fitness Administration

Faculty Position

Clinical Assistant Professor – Sports and Fitness Administration

Description:

The University of Houston’s Department of Health and Human Performance is
seeking candidates for a clinical assistant professor position in the Sport and
Fitness Administration Program area. The position will require the candidate to
teach, and actively recruit prospective graduate students to the program. The
candidate must also serve as a liaison between the Sport and Fitness
Administration Program and Houston area sport/ fitness entities and
organizations to facilitate the acquisition of internships, external funding,
and professional employment opportunities. The position is a nine-month
appointment with summer school teaching optional. The effective date of
employment will be August 1, 2007.

Qualifications:

A doctorate in kinesiology, sports management or administration or a closely
related discipline is required. Preference will be given to candidates with an
established record of teaching as well as the ability and personal demeanor to
develop a strong internship program and recruit high quality graduate students.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will teach a maximum of two courses in the Sport and
Fitness Administration Program area each semester, serve a graduate advisor,
actively recruit prospective graduate students, develop articulation agreements
between sport /fitness organizations and entities, and participate in routine
service activities incumbent upon university faculty.

Salary:

Commensurate with qualifications.

University Description:

The University of Houston is a major urban research institution with a focus on
urban issues and problems. The University has over 35,000 students in 14
colleges. The University of Houston is located near the renowned Texas Medical
Center and NASA/Johnson Space Center providing faculty with a variety of
opportunities to conduct interdisciplinary research. Houston is the largest city
in Texas and offers a large variety of professional, cultural and personal
opportunities.

Application Procedures:

Submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, academic transcripts, and
three letters of reference to:

Dr. Demetrius Pearson, Chair
Clinical Assistant Professor Search Committee
Department of Health and Human Performance
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-6015

e-mail: Dpearson@uh.edu

Review of application materials will begin, June 1st, 2007 and continue until
the position is filled.

University Description: The University of Houston is a major urban research
institution with a focus on urban issues and problems. The University has over
35,000 students in 14 colleges. The University of Houston is located near the
renowned Texas Medical Center and NASA/Johnson Space Center providing faculty
with a variety of opportunities to conduct interdisciplinary research. Houston
is the largest city in Texas and offers a large variety of professional,
cultural and personal opportunities.

The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer.
Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to
apply.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

CFP: “Sport, Communication, and the Culture of Consumption”

Special Issue of American Behavioral Scientist

“Sport, Communication, and the Culture of Consumption”

Guest Editor: Lawrence A. Wenner, Loyola Marymount University

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2007

American Behavioral Scientist, one of the world’s preeminent interdisciplinary journals in the social and behavioral sciences, published by Sage Publications, is pleased to call for papers for a special issue focused on “Sport, Communication,
and the Culture of Consumption.” From media events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games to global sport celebrities such as Tiger Woods and David Beckham to the transnational media and advertising corporations that drive them all, it is easy to recognize that the communication of sport has become a large engine of consumer
culture. Such mega-phenomena combine with the constant drip of sports communication, not only in specialty sports networks and in print and web publishing, but in interpersonal and group settings where we make sense of what sport and its promotional culture means. Through communication, the sensibilities of sport are often intertwined with decisions about what we drink and eat, what we drive, what we wear and the activities we choose to value. Because such decisions circulate meaning themselves, the influences of sport and its commodification become more even more ubiquitous and naturalized. Towards understanding such phenomena, this special issue seeks to examine emerging concerns and trends associated with the increasingly large social and cultural footprint of sport and its commodification. The issue explores the role and impact of communication and media in enabling sport and its culture to serve as an engine of consumer culture. The special issue especially seeks studies that examine how the shadow of sport fans out via marketing, advertising, and other promotional strategies to make connections with audiences and consumers. Also of
interest are studies that shed light on the role that norms and values that come with the commodification of sport play in interpersonal and group communication settings. There is special interest in hearing from scholars from diverse disciplinary
and geographic quarters on topics that assess the forces of globalization in the consumption culture of sport and consider its impacts in relation to race, gender, class, religion, age, and disability.

Manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages, including text, references, notes, tables, and figures, and must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition). In order to facilitate the blind, peer review process, no material identifying the author(s) of submitted manuscripts should appear anywhere other than the title page. The title page should include:

(a) the title of the paper;
(b) the author’s name, position, institutional affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address;
(c) any acknowledgments, including the history of the
manuscript if any part of it has been presented at a conference or is derived from a thesis or dissertation;
(d) a word count. The first page of the manuscript itself should include the title of the paper, an abstract of not more than 200 words, and up to six key words for indexing.

Manuscripts must be received via email attachment in either MS-WORD (.doc) or Rich Text (.rtf) formats by September 1, 2007 at lwenner@lmu.edu. In the subject line of the email message, authors should specify “ABS Submission.” In the text of this email message the submitting author should provide:

a) complete contact information (address, telephone, fax, and email);
b) brief biographical summaries (full name, highest earned academic degree, institution granting that degree, and present academic or professional position)
for each author;
c) the title of the manuscript; and
d) a statement that the manuscript is the author(s)’s original work,
that it is submitted for consideration for this special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, that it is not presently under consideration at any other journal nor published elsewhere; and that the reference list is complete and in appropriate
form.