CURRICULUM VITAE John Hoberman
Department of Germanic Studies Burdine 322 2637 West 49th St. University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78731 Austin, Texas 78712 (512) 450-1555 (512) 232-6368 [email protected]
ACADEMIC TRAINING
1975 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, CA Scandinavian languages and literatures (History of Norwegian literature, emphasis 1870 to the present; the Scandinavian fin de siècle, 1880-1914; the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard; Old Icelandic literature.)
1969 M.A. University of California, Berkeley, CA Scandinavian languages and literatures
1966 B.A. Haverford College, Haverford, PA English Literature
1964-66 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Scandinavian Studies
1963-64 Fordham University, Bronx, NY Germanic Studies
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1992-Present Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 2005-2009 Chair, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1994-1995 Visiting Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Chicago 1985-1992 Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982-1983 Visiting Scholar in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 1979-1985 Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages, The University of Texas at Austin 1976-1979 Assistant Professor of Scandinavian, Harvard University 1975-1976 Lecturer on Scandinavian, Harvard University 1974-1975 Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1970-1972 Teaching Assistant in Norwegian, University of California, Berkeley
2 EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS
2001-2006 Visiting Researcher, Institut for idræt og biomekanik, Syddansk Universitet [University of Southern Denmark, Odense] Semi-annual visits for the purpose of research 2001-2003 Task force on Ethical, Conceptual and Scientific Issues in the Use of Performance Enhancing Technologies in Sports, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Age of Globalization (edX MOOC global platform (2013, 2014) (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).
Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2012).
Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005)
Doping and Public Policy. Co-edited with Verner Møller. (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004).
Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). • Japanese edition (2007)
Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (New York: The Free Press, 1992). • German edition: Sterbliche Maschinen: Doping und die Unmenschlichkeit des Hochleistungssports (Aachen: Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 1994) • Dutch edition: Doping: De Atleet als Machine (Utrecht/Antwerp: Kosmos, 1992)
The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (New Rochelle, New York: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, 1986). Recipient of the 1987 Olympic Book of the Year Award of the United States Olympic Committee Education Council.
Sport and Political Ideology (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1984) • British edition: Sport and Political Ideology (London: Heinemann, 1984) • Italian edition: Politica e Sport (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1988)
3 BOOKS IN PROGRESS
What That White Man Said: How the Moynihan Report Transformed the Politics of Race and Promoted the Rise of Political Correctness.
Dopers in Uniform: Anabolic Steroids, Hard-Muscled Cops, and Global Demand for Androgenic Drugs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
“Sports Physicians and Doping: Medical Ethics and Elite Performance,” in The Social Organization of Sports Medicine: Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives, Dominic Malcolm and Parissa Safai, eds. (New York & London: Routledge, 2012): 247- 264.
“Sports Physicians, Human Nature, and the Limits of Medical Enhancement,” in Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics: Threats and Opportunities of Doping Technologies, Jan Tolleneer, Sigrid Sterckx, Pieter Bonte, eds. (Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London: Springer, 2012): 255-270.
“Pose und Entfremdung bei schwarzen Sportlern in den USA,” in Hold It! Zur Pose zwischen Bild und Performance, Bettina Brandl-Risi, Gabriele Brandstetter und Stefanie Diekmann, eds. (Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2012): 204-210.
“Phantasien über ‘Gendoping’,” in Höher > Schneller > Weiter: Gentechnologisches Enhancement im Spitzensport: Ethische, rechtliche und soziale Perspektivierungen (Münster: mentis Verlag, 2012): 21-28.
“Athletes in Handcuffs? The criminalization of doping,” in Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport, eds. Michael McNamee and Verner Møller (London and New York: Routledge, 2011): 99-110.
“Racial Athletic Aptitude and the New Medical Genetics: ‘Black Dominance’ and the Future of Race Relations,” in Sport, Race, and Ethnicity: Narratives of Difference and Diversity, ed. Daryl Adair (Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology, 2011): 155-174.
"Putting Doping into Context: Historical and Cultural Perspectives," in Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports, Thomas H. Murray, Karen J. Maschke, Angela A. Wasunnna, eds. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009): 3-27.
"Race and athletics in the twenty-first century," in Physical Culture, Power, and the Body, Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky, eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 2007): 208- 231.
"Olympic Drug Testing: An Interpretive History," in Global Olympics: Historical and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games, Kevin Young and Kevin B. Wamsley, eds. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005): 249-268.
4 "The Primitive Pelvis: The Role of Racial Folklore in Obstetrics and Gynecology During the Twentieth Century," in Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005): 85-104.
"'How Fiercely That Gentile Rides!': Jews, Horses, and Equestrian Style, in Joining the Club: Jews, Sports and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack M. Kugelmass, ed. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005): 46-80.
"Sportive Nationalism and Globalization," in Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty- first Century, John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen, eds. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004): 177-188.
"Introduction: Doping and Public Policy," in Doping and Public Policy (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004).
"Fitness and National Vitality: A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States," in Karin A.E. Volkwein, ed., Fitness as Cultural Phenomenon (Münster: Waxmann, 1998): 231- 247.
"The Sportive Agon in Ancient and Modern Times." In Janet Lungstrum and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997): 293-304.
"Das Dopingkonzept und die Zukunft des Olympischen Sports," in Gunter Gebauer, ed. Olympische Spiele -- die andere Utopie der Moderne Olympia zwischen Kult und Droge (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996): 197-222.
"The Sportive-Dynamic Body as a Symbol of Productivity." In Tobin Siebers, ed. Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995): 199-228.
"Otto Weininger and the Critique of Jewish Masculinity." In Nancy A. Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams, eds. Jews & Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995): 141-153.
"Sport and Ideology in the Post-Communist Age." In Lincoln Allison, ed. The Changing Politics of Sport (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993): 15-36.
"The Early Development of Sportsmedicine in Germany." In Jack Berryman and Roberta J. Park, eds. Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992): 233-282.
"Creating the 'New Man': German and Soviet Sports Photographs Between the Wars." In Ellen Dugan, ed. This Sporting Life 1878-1991 (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1992): 27-37.
"Olympic Universalism and the Apartheid Issue." In Fernand Landry, Marc Landry, and Magdeleine Yerlès, eds. Sport... The Third Millenium [Proceedings of the International Symposium, Quebec City, Canada, May 21-25, 1990] (Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1991): 523-534. 5
"Drug Abuse, the Student-Athlete, and High-Performance Sport." In Richard Lapchick and John Slaughter, eds. The Rules of the Game: Ethics in College Sport (New York: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 83-98.
"Olympic Internationalism and The Korea Herald," in The Olympic Movement and the Mass Media: Past, Present and Future Issues (Calgary: Hurford Enterprises Ltd., 1989), pp. 11-35 -- 11-41.
"Kierkegaard on Vertigo," International Kierkegaard Commentary (1987), pp. 185-208.
"The Sportive Muse: Lars Gustafsson's Tennisspelarna," International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1987), pp. 360-364.
"Die sportliche Muse: Lars Gustafssons Die Tennisspieler," in Ruprecht Volz, ed. Gustafsson Lesen (München/Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1986), pp. 140-147.
Swedish version: "Tennisspelarna -- en tankesport," "in Att läsa Gustafsson (Stockholm: Norstedts Forlag, 1986), pp. 182-190.
"Current Trends in Norwegian Literary Criticism," The Nordic Mind: An Anthology of Scandinavian Literary Criticism. Eds. Frank E. Andersen, John M. Weinstock (University Press of America, 1986), pp. 197-203.
"Sport and the Technological Image of Man," in William J. Morgan and Klaus V.Meier, eds. Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (Champaign: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 319-327.
"Kierkegaard's Two Ages and Heidegger's Critique of Modernity," International Kierkegaard Commentary (1984), pp. 223-258.
"Bibliographical Spectrum (Norway)," Review of National Literatures, Vol. 12 (1983), pp. 185- 207.
"The Olympics." Encyclopedia of African American History and Culture (New York: Macmillan).
"The Psychopathology of an Abortive Leadership: The Case of Vidkun Quisling," Tulane Studies in Political Science, Vol. XVI (1977), pp. 175-201.
ARTICLES:
“The Myth of Sport as a Peace-Promoting Political Force,” The SAIS Review of International Affairs XXXI (Winter-Spring 2011): 17-29.
“Il Costo dei Record, Storia dello Sport (2010): 3-9.
6 “Medical Racism and the Rhetoric of Exculpation: How Do Physicians Think About Race?” New Literary History 38 (Summer 2007): 505-525.
“Think Again: the Olympics.” Foreign Policy (July/August 2008).
“The origins of peak performance: Motivational and hereditary factors.” International Journal of Sport Psychology 38 (January-March 2007): 100-103.
“History and Prevalence of Doping in the Marathon.” Sports Medicine 37 (2007): 386-388.
“Totgesagte leben länger: Hat die olympische Bewegung Zukunft?” in Zur Neubegründung der Olympischen Idee, Denkanstöße, Wolfgang Buss, Sven Güldenpfennig, Arnd Krüger, eds. (Wiesbaden: Roswitha Stumm Verlag, 2006): 13-22.
"African athletic aptitude and the social sciences," Equine and Comparative Exercise Physiology (2004).
"Sport Physicians and the Doping Crisis in Elite Sport," Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine 12:4 (July 2002): 203-208.
"A Pharmacy on Wheels: Doping and Community Cohesion Among Professional Cyclists Following the Tour de France Scandal of 1998." In Verner Møller and John Nauright, eds., The Essence of Sport (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002): 107-127.
"The Reception of Dopingdjævlen (1999) in Denmark." Idrætshistorisk Årbog 2001 ["Sportens væsen og uvæsen"] (2002): 133-140.
“The Price of ‘Black Dominance’,” Social Science and Modern Society 37 (March/April 2000): 49-56.
“Behind the mask,” Index on Censorship (4/2000): 57-61.
“How Drug Testing Fails: The Politics of Doping Control,” in Wayne Wilson and Edward Derse, eds., Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement (Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2000): 241-274.
“‘Mortal Engines’: Hochleistungssport und die physiologischen Grenzen des menschlichen Organismus,” in Philipp Sarasin and Jakob Tanner, eds., Physiologie und industrielle Gesellschaft (Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998): 491-507.
“Fitness and National Vitality: A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States.” In Fitness as Cultural Phenomenon, in Karin Volkwein, ed. (Münster: Waxmann Verlag GMBH: 1998): 231-247.
“Fin-de-Siècle Physiology as Sexual Farce: Alfred Jarry’s The Supermale (1902),” Nineteenth- Century Prose (1998): 154-170.
“The Concept of Doping and the Future of Olympic Sport.” In Lincoln Allison, ed., Taking Sport Seriously (Aachen: Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 1998): 31-52.
7 "The History of Artificial Testosterone" [with Charles E. Yesalis], Scientific American (February 1995): 60-65.
"Toward a Theory of Olympic Internationalism," Journal of Sport History 22 (Spring 1995): 1- 37.
"Listening to Steroids," The Wilson Quarterly (Winter 1995): 35-44.
"The Transformation of East German Sport," Journal of Sport History 17 (1990): 62-68.
"The Reunification of German Sports Medicine, 1989-1992." Quest 45 (1993): 277-285.
"Thor Heyerdahl," Scandinavian Review, Vol. 76, No. 2 (1988), pp. 23-29.
"Sport and Social Change: The Transformation of Maoist Sport," Sociology of Sport Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1987), pp. 156-170.
"The Body as an Ideological Variable: Sportive Imagery of Leadership and the State," Man and World, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1981), pp. 309-329.
"Communist Sport Theory Today: The Case of Andrzej Wohl," Arena Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 1980), pp. 13-15.
Defining the Postwar French Ultra-Right: The View from Within," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 6 (1978), pp. 322-330.
"Sport and the Marxists," Arena Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 2 (February 1977), pp. 15-17.
"Political Ideology and the Record Performance," Arena Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 1977), pp. 7-11.
"Sport and Political Ideology," Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 1977), pp. 80-114.
"The Political Imagination of Jens Bjørneboe: A Study of Under en hårdere himmel," Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Winter 1976), pp. 52-70.
"The Mind of Maurice Bardèche," The Psychohistory Review, Vol. V, No. 1 (June 1976), pp. 11- 16.
"Vidkun Quisling's Psychological Image," Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer 1974), pp. 242-264.
REVIEWS:
Review of George Eisen, Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games among the Shadows, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (1993): 303. 8
Review of Bruce H. Kirmmse, Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark (1990), American Historical Review (1992).
Review of Charles Korr, West Ham United: The Making of a Football Club (1986), American Historical Review (October 1989), pp. 1101-1102.
Review of Allen Guttmann, Sports Spectators (1986), American Historical Review (October 1988), pp. 1024-1025.
Review of Allen Guttmann, The Games Must Go On: Avery Brundage and the Olympic Movement (1983), American Journal of Sociology (1986).
Review of Bjarte Birkeland and Stein Ugelvik Larsen, eds. Nazismen og norsk litteratur (1975), Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Winter 1978), pp. 114-117.
Review of Gabriel Langfeldt, Gåten Vidkun Quisling (1969), Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer 1974), pp. 289-290.
Review of David Caute, The Fellow-Travellers: A Postscript to the Enlightenment (1973), Group for the Use of Psychology in History, Newsletter, Vol. IV, No. 1 (June 1975), pp. 29-31.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES:
Scandinavian Studies (Literature)
"Dag Solstad and the Second World War." Presented at the Seventy-First Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, May 1, 1981.
"Per Olof Sundman and the Metaphorical Tradition." Presented at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Michigan, ann Arbor, May 3, 1980.
"P.O. Enquist's Katedralen i München. Presented at the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 5, 1978.
"Writing as Self-Annihilation: Sven Delblanc's Åsnebrygga." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, University of Vermont, Burlington, April 10, 1976.
"The Psychology of the Collaborator in the Postwar Norwegian Novel." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.
9 "Per Olov Enquist and the Literature of Sport." Presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 2, 1975.
"Some Observations on the Problems of Collaboration in the Postwar Norwegian Novel." Presented at the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 4, 1973.
Scandinavian Studies (History)
"The Response to Collaboration in Norway." Presented at the Ninety-Third Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, December 30, 1978.
"Psychological Approaches to Vidkun Quisling." Presented as a Waldemar Westergaard Fund Seminar, Honnold Library, the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California, November 7, 1973.
Scandinavian Studies (Philosophy)
"Kierkegaard and the Problem of Artistic Representation." Presented at the Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, May 3, 1986.
"The Left Critique of Kierkegaard." Presented to the Department of German, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 16, 1984.
"Kierkegaard's Two Ages and Heidegger's Critique of Modernity." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 27, 1981.
"Kierkegaard's Psychology." Presented to the Boston Forum for the Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Man, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 4. 1979.
"Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death and the Task of Psychiatry." Presented to the Institut für Psychotherpie und medizinische Psycholgie der Universität Würzburg, Germany, June 25, 1979.
"Buber and Existentialism" [Buber and Kierkegaard]. Presented at "The Legacy of Martin Buber: A Symposium on the Occasion of His Hundredth birthday," Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Febryary 5, 1978.
"Psychological problems in the Literary Analysis: Søren Kierkegaard." Presented at a Philosophy and Literature Research Seminar of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Belmont, Massachusetts, March 18, 1978.
10 "The Heroic Element in Literature and the Writer's Commitment: Søren Kierkegaard." Presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 1978.
"The Left Critique of Kierkegaard." Presented at the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Washington, Seattle, May 6, 1977.
French Studies
"Montherlant's Moral Derelictions: A Postwar Interpretation." Presented at a conference on "Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism, Prejudice and Cultural Heroes," Boston University, April 21, 1991.
"Montherlant's Masculine Ideology and the Jews." Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 19, 1989.
"The Writer as Collaborator: The Trials of Knut Hamsun and Robert Brasillach." Presented to the Department of Modern Languages, University of Oklahoma, Norman, March 20, 1981.
"Pierre de Coubertin: Hygienist of the Third Republic." Presented at the Eight Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, University of Oregon, Eugene, October 24, 1980.
"The Ultra-Right Critique of Sartre." Presented to the Department of French, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 3, 1978.
"Sympathy for the Devil: Ideological Conflict Among Literary Intellectuals in Liberated France." Presented at the Third Annual Conference on Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 28, 1975.
German/Jewish Studies
“The Jew’s Body as Religious and Cultural Text.” Presented by the Oregon State University Horning Lecture Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, February 8, 1999.
"German-Jewish Interpretations of Courage at the Fin de Siècle." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Diego, California, December 30, 1994.
"Nietzsche on the Body." Presented at "Nietzsche on the Plains: 1993 International Nietzsche Conference, University of Nebraska at Kearney, April 16, 1993.
"Max Nordau and the Fin-de-Siècle Critique of the Jewish Male." Presented at the Colloque International: Max Nordau, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, July 9, 1992.
11 "Otto Weininger and the Myth of Jewish Effeminacy," in Nancy Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams, eds. Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995): 197-222.
"The Sportive Dimension of Das dritte Buch über Achim." Presented at the annual meeting of the Sport Literature Association, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, May 27, 1989.
"Sport und Körper in der Romanwelt Aharon Appelfelds." Presented at the Interdiziplinäres Symposium "Sport und Literatur," Feldafing bei München, West Germany, January 22, 1988.
"A German in Paris: Ernst Jünger's Occupation Diary." Presented by the Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin, November 16, 1987.
"Kafka's Body: Physicality and Jewish Self-Images in Pre-Nazi Europe." Presented by the Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin, December 3, 1985.
Sports Studies
“What Do We (Really) Know About How to Do ‘Anti-Doping Education’?” Presented at a conference on “What Do We (Really) Know About Doping?” Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, August 15, 2013.
“Lance Armstrong, Sport Doping, and the Crisis in the Governance of Elite Sport,” Presented at the School of Physical Education, University of Otago, New Zealand, March 15, 2013.
“The Reunification of German Sports Medicine.” Presented at the Internationales Symposium “Sportmedizin und Doping in Europa,” Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, September 14, 2011.
“A History of the Enhancement Debate.” Presented at the Brocher Hastings Center Summer Academy 2011: “Human Enhancement: Medical, Ethical and Legal Implications, Hermance, Switzerland, July 4, 2011.
“Macro-sociological obstacles to effective doping control.” Presented at a conference on “Anti-Doping – Rational Policy or Moral Panic, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, August 19, 2011.
“Verwandlungsfantasien: Analyze der imaginären Zukunft des Hochleistungssports.” Presented by Skype to the Institute of Sport Science, University of Hildesheim, Germany, October 5, 2010. “Doping the Action-Oriented Male: Police Officers on Steroids.” Presented at a conference on “Body enhancements and (il)legal drugs in sport and exercise – human and social perspectives,” University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 11, 2010.
“A History of the Enhancement Debate.” Presented at the Brocher Hastings Center Summer Academy 2011: “Human Enhancement: Medical, Ethical and Legal Implications, Hermance, Switzerland, July 4, 2011. 12 “Macro-sociological obstacles to effective doping control.” Presented at a conference on “Anti-Doping – Rational Policy or Moral Panic, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, August 19, 2011.
‘White Men Can’t’: Submissive Responses to Musical and Athletic 'Racial' Aptitudes Since 1960.” Presented at the conference “Beyond Boundaries: Third International Conference on Sport, Race, and Ethnicity, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Barbados, July 16, 2010.
“The Myth of Olympic Peacemaking: Sport’s Legendary Effects in the Political World.” Presented at a conference on “Mythe Olympique et sport héroïque,” sponsored by the Committee on European Sports History (CESH), Monastir, Tunisia, September 23, 2010.
“Verwandlungsfantasien: Analyze der imaginären Zukunft des Hochleistungssports.” Presented by Skype to the Institute of Sport Science, University of Hildesheim, Germany, October 5, 2010.
“Dopers in Uniform: Police Officers on Steroids.” Presented at a conference on “Body enhancements and (il)legal drugs in sport and exercise – human and social perspectives,” University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 11, 2010.
“Is It Possible to ‘Reform’ Elite Athletes Who Dope?” Presented at a conference on “Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review,” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 19, 2009.
“The Criminalization of Doping.” Presented at a conference on “Doping and Legal Rights,” University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, August 21, 2009.
“The Limits of the Athletic Body: Is There a ‘Physiological Penalty’ for High Performance?” Keynote lecture presented at the annual meeting of the European Committee for Sports History (CESH), Pisa, Italy, September 18, 2009.
“Police Officers’ Use of Anabolic Steroids.” Sponsored by the Professional Standards Unit of the Toronto Police Service, Toronto, Canada, October 27, 2009.
“Racial Athletic Aptitude and the New Medical Genetics: ‘Black Dominance’ and the Future of Race Relations.” Presented at a conference on Sport, Race & Ethnicity, Sydney, Australia, November 30, 2008.
“Sportive Nationalism and the German Intellectuals.” Presented at a conference on “Modern Sport and the Formation of European Identities,” University of California, Berkeley, April 5, 2008.
“The Doping of Everyday Life.” Presented by the Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, September 12, 2008.
“Is Testosterone a Supplement or a Drug?” Presented at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2007.
“Why Doping Scandals Matter.” Presented at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, March 22, 2007.
13 “’Pose’ und Entfremdung bei schwarzen Sportlern in den USA.” Presented at the conference “Zur Politik der Pose zwischen Bild und Performance.” Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung am Institut für Theaterwisenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, 18 February 2007.
“Fünfzig Jahre Doping im Hochleistungssport und die Pharmakologisierung des Alltagslebens.” Presented at a conference on “Doping in Ost und Westy 1960-1990.: Workshop im Alten Schloß Dornburg bei Jena, 2 December 2006.
"History and prevalence of doping in marathon competition." Presented at The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon 2006 World Congress: Science and Medicine of the Marathon, Chicago, October 20, 2006.
"Medical Complicity in Doping." Presented at the International Performance in Sport Conference in Newcastle upon Tyne, September 26, 2006.
"Sports Doping and the New World of Enhancements." Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2006.
"Totgesagte leben länger. Hat die Olympische Bewegung eine Zukunft?" Presented at a symposium titled "Zur Neubegründung der Olympischen Idee: Diskussionsanstöße," Georg- August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, April 7, 2005.
"Testosterone Dreams." Presented at the Forskerseminar om doping, sponsored by Kulturministeriets udvalg for Idræatsforskning and Anti-Doping Danmark, Odense, Denmark, January 14, 2005.
"Race and Athletics in the 21st Century." Presented at a conference on "Physical Culture, Power, and the Body," at the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 16, 2004.
"Conceptualising Racial Athletic Aptitude: The Case of East Africa." Presented at a conference on "East African Running: A Cross Discipline Perspective," The University of Glasgow, Scotland, May 15, 2004.
"The Four-Minute Mile and Amphetamines." Presented at a conference on "Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile," St Cross College, Oxford, UK, May 7, 2004.
"Modern Sport, National Identity and Globalization." Presented at the Institut for Idræt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, November 13, 2002.
Moderator of a conference on "Doping and Public Policy: An Internaional Conference." Presented by the International Network for Humanistic Doping Research in cooperation with the Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 20-21, 2002.
"Die Juden, der Sport und der internationale Faschismus." Presented at a conference on "Juden im europäischen Sport: Zwischen Integration und Exklusion," Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, Munich, May 1, 2002.
14 "Sportive Nationalism and Doping." Presented to the Board of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Denver Airport Marriott at Gateway Park, Aurora, Colorado, March 21, 2002.
"Doping and Sport." Presented at The Olympic Roundtable: Confronting Contemporary Issues, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, October 1, 2001.
"The History of Androgen Therapy in the Older Population." Presented at the Third International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, Visby, Sweden, June 10, 2001.
"Sports Studies and Humanistic Inquiry." Presented at the Institute for Sports Science and Biomechanics, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark, June 7, 2001.
"Historical perspectives on Doping." Presented at a Work Shop on "Research on Doping in Sport," Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Oslo, Norway, May 22, 2001.
"Jews, Sport, and the Animal World." Presented at an International Conference, "Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship," Arizona State University, February 12, 2001.
"The Essence of Sport." Presented at a seminar on "The Essence of Sport," University of Southern Denmark, Odense, November 16, 2000.
"Darwin's Athletes." Presented at a conference titled "Play the game: Reaching for democracy in sports," sponsored by the International Federation of Journalists, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 13, 2000.
"The Future of High-Performance Sport." Presented at a conference on "Olympia's Daughters: Gender, Sport and the New Millenium," University of Texas, Austin, November 4, 2000.
"The Future of High-Performance Sport." Presented at a conference on "Olympia's Daughters: Gender, Sport and the New Millenium," University of Texas, Austin, November 4, 2000.
"Big Time College and Professional Sports: Boon or Bane for Black Progress." Presented at the 2000 Western Advanced Leadership Institute Retreat [Black Board of Directors Project], Aspen, Colorado, June 23, 2000.
“Sports Science: Who Does It Serve and at What Cost?” Presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, Seattle, Washington, June 5, 1999.
"Learning From the Past: The Need for Independent Doping Control." Presented at the Duke Conference on Doping, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, May 7, 1999.
“Mark McGwire’s Little Helper: Sports, Society, and the New Sex Hormone Market.” Presented by the Provost’s Lecture Series, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, March 4, 1999.
15 “Norwegian Sportive Nationalism: The Political Use of Athletic Dynamism in a Small Nordic Society.” Presented by the Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley, February 9, 1999.
“How Drug Testing Fails: The Politics of Drug Testing.” Presented at the Amateur Athletic Foundation’s Doping in Elite Sport Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 24-25, 1998.
“Racial Physiology and Elite Athletic Performance.” Presented in the public lecture series “Playing Games: Sports & American Culture.” Sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council and the University of South Flordia, St. Petersburg, March 16, 1998.
“Hormone Therapy and the Future of Doping in Sport.” Presented at a conference on “The Sporting Body: The History of Sport, Medicine and Society,” Linacre College, Oxford, December 5, 1997.
“The Politics of Doping Control in Elite Swimming.” Presented for The School of Physical Education, Sport & Leisure’s Research Seminar Series, De Montfort University, Bedford, England, December 4, 1997.
"Sport, Race, and the Intellectuals." Keynote lecture presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Toronto, Canada, November 7, 1997.
"The Ethics of Sport Science Research." Keynote lecture. Second Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science ("Sport Science in a Changing World of Sport"). Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20, 1997.
"Europeans Discover Black African Athleticism." Keynote Lecture. IVth Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, Lyon, France, July 8, 1997.
"The Fastest White Man in the World: The New Psychology of Race in Elite Sport." Keynote lecture. International Society of Sport Psychology. IX World Congress of Sport Psychology, Netanya, Israel, July 5, 1997.
"The International Olympic Committee as a Transnational Enterprise." Presented at a panel on "Global Citizens: Internationalism and National Identity." Ninetieth Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, California, April 18, 1997.
"The Testosterone Market and the Future of Doping." Sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and the Centre for Sport and Law, Ottawa, Canada, November 15, 1996.
"The Future of Doping and Its Control." Presented at an International Symposium on Doping in Sport and Its Legal and Social Control, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, August 8, 1996.
"Toward a Theory of Olympic Internationalism." Presented at the Sport, Philosophy and the Olympics Conference, Maryland College, Woburn, England, March 16, 1996. 16
"Constructing Black Athletic Superiority: The Medical and Anthropological Origins of a Stereotype." Presented at a Conference on African-Americans and Sport, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, March 1, 1996.
"The International Olympic Committee as a Supranational Elite." Presented at the 110th meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1996.
"Doping and the Future of High-Performance Sport." Presented to the International Congress in Sports Medicine and Social Science in Athletics, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 3, 1995.
"Listening to Steroids." Presented at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, March 13, 1995.
"What Can We Do About Doping?" A seminar sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Foundation, Los Angeles, California, December 27, 1994.
"The Democratization of the Body: Everyman as High Performer." Keynote address to be presented to the World Convention of the International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education, Berlin, June 24, 1994.
"Imaging the Black Athlete: Toward Freedom or Bondage?" To be presented at the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 6, 1994.
"The Black Athlete and America's Racial Crisis." Presented by the Speakers' Bureau of the University of Oklahoma Students Association and the African-American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, February 23, 1994.
"Sport, testostérone et recherche scientifique." Presented at a colloquium titled "Ethique, Recherche et Sports du Particulier au Général," Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, January 28, 1994.
"Drugs in Sport: The Real Issues." Sponsored lecture presented by the Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport in Society, University of Warwick, Great Britain, January 11, 1994.
"Europeans Discover Black African Athleticism: An Historical Perspective." Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Orlando, Florida, November 12, 1993.
"Toppidrett og politisk press i Norge" [Elite Sport and Political Pressure in Norway]. Sponsored lecture presented by Norges Idrettshøgskole [Norwegian Sports College], Oslo, Norway, September 1, 1993.
17 "The Lillehammer Winter Olympiad as Cultural Nationalism." Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 23, 1993.
"The Emergence of the Sportive-Dynamic Body." Sponsored lecture presented by the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, January 30, 1993.
"The Concept of Doping and the Future of the Olympic Games." Sponsored lecture presented at the Annual Meeting of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport, The Free University, Berlin, Germany, October 2, 1992. [Forthcoming in German.]
"Doping and the Reunification of German Sports Medicine." Presented at "Sport in the Global Village: Comparative Perspectives" [The Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport], University of Houston, June 17, 1992.
"A Theory of Olympic Internationalism." Keynote Address presented at the First International Symposium for Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, February 11, 1992.
"Modernity and the Scientization of the Sportive Body." Presented at the 1991 Conference of the North American Society for the Spciology of Sport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 6, 1991.
"The Concept of Doping." Sponsored lecture presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 10, 1991.
"'Black Athletes -- Fact & Fiction': A Racist Documentary?" Invited lecture presented at the 98th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 14, 1990.
"Olympic Universalism and the Apartheid Issue." Presented at the International Symposium "Sport... The Third Millenium," Quebec City, Canada, May 23, 1990.
"The Origins of Sport Psychology." The Human Kinetics Lecture, presented to the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, May 17, 1990.
"Sport and the Myth of the 'Jewish' Body." Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, May 27, 1989.
"The Transformation of East German Sport." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1989. 18
"Ideological Foundations of East German Sport Science." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 3, 1988.
"The Development of High-Performance Sports medicine in Germany." Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History, Arizona State University, Tempe, May 20, 1988.
"Montherlant on Sport and the Body." Presented at the joint meeting of the Sport Literature Association and the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport, Fort Worth, Texas, October 2, 1987.
"The Hidden Agenda of Scientific Sport." Presented at the United States Olympic Committee Sports Medicine Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 12, 1987.
"The Future of Scientific Sport." The R. Tait McKenzie Lecture, co-sponsored by The American Academy of Physical Education and The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance at the 102nd Anniversary National Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 13, 1987.
"Olympic Internationalism and The Korea Herald." Presented at the International Congress on the Olympic Movement and the Mass Media, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, February 17, 1987.
"Toward a Theory of Olympic Internationalism." Presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1, 1986.
"Anthropological Consequences of Scientific Sport." Presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 31, 1986.
"Sport, Ideology and Social Change: The People's Republic of China." Plenary address to the Sixth Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Boston, Massachusetts, November 9, 1985.
"Pre-Modern Attitudes Toward Boxing." Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Sport and Society, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, March 30, 1984.
"The Body as an Ideological Variable." Presented to the Department of Government, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, April 13, 1983.
"Sport as a Modernism." Presented to the Department of Government, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, April 12, 1983.
19 "The Sport Culture of East Germany." Presented to the Department of Government, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, April 11, 1983.
"The Sport Culture of East Germany." Presented to the Department of History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, March 19, 1981.
"The Sport Culture of East Germany." Presented at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 18, 1979.
"Sport as a Pseudo-Psychology." Presented to the Harvard Graduate School of Education Colloquium Board, November 9, 1978.
"Sport and Marxist Theory." Presented to the Department of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2, 1978.
"Sport and Marxist Theory." Presented at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 14, 1977.
"Sport and the French Right." Presented at the Fourth Annual Convention of the North American Society for Sport History, University of Oregon, Eugene, June 16, 1976.
Race and Medicine Studies
[To be titled]. Keynote Address at the American Medical Association Medical Student Section 3 Conference, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, March 27, 2015.
[To be titled]. University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, November 18, 2014.
“Recognizing Racially Motivated Diagnosis and Treatment.” UT Southwestern Medical School Ethics Grand Rounds lecture, October 14, 2014, Dallas, Texas.
“Medical Racism and How We Can Rise Above It.” Presented at the Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly of the National Medical Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 2014.
“Recognizing Racially Motivated Diagnosis and Treatment.” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Seton Mind Institute, Seton Hospital, Austin, Texas, May 13, 2014.
“Recognizing Racially Motivated Diagnosis and Treatment.” Keynote address presented at the 37th Annual Clinical Pharmacy Symposium: “Health Equity: An Interprofessional Approach to Improve Health in the Underserved”, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida, February 22, 2014.
“Recognizing Racially Motivated Diagnosis and Treatment.” Presented at the conference on Addressing Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities: Best Practices for Clinical Care and Medical Education in the 21st Century, University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2013. 20
“The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism.” Presented at the University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand, March 13, 2013.
“The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism.” Presented at the University of Auckland Medical School, Auckland, New Zealand, March 8, 2013.
“Medico-Racial Folklore: How to Educate the Medical Community.” Presented at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, January 8, 2013.
“Medico-Racial Folklore: How to Change Attitudes in the Medical Community.” Presented at the CEDD Summit conference sponsored by the Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities at the Texas State Office of Minority Health, Renaissance Hotel, Austin, Texas, August 16, 2012.
“Medical Racism and the Medical Curriculum.” Presented at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, January 11, 2012.
How Do Doctors Think About Race?” Presented at Children’s Hospital, Washington, D.C., December 5, 2007.
“How Do Doctors Think About Race?” Presented at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2007.
"Pain and Ethnicity." Sponsored by the Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center, Austin, Texas, February 27, 2001.
“How Do Physicians Think About Race?” Presented at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, April 13, 2000.
“Is There Medical Racism?” Presented by the Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center, Austin, Texas, February 22, 1999; April 11, 2000.
“The Legacy of Medical Racism: From Tuskegee to the Present Day.” Presented by the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia, October 23, 1998.
“The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism.” Keynote lecture presented at a conference on “Mental and Physical Health in America: The Insidious Effects of Racism (White Supremacy),” Baltimore VA Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, June 22, 1998.
“An Introduction to Medical Racism.” Presented at the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, York University, Toronto, Canada, November 6, 1997.
“An Introduction to Medical Racism.” Presented at the University of Michigan Medical Center, November 5, 1997.
Political Studies
21 "The Decline of Treason: Political Betrayal in the Modern World." Presented by the Committee on University Lectures, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 9, 1986.
"The Stalinism of the Intellectuals: An Analysis of Fellow-Travelling." Presented at the IVth International Colloquium, Interuniversity Centre for European Studies, Montreal, March 26, 1981.
"The Psychology of the Collaborator." Presented to the Department of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2, 1978.
"Psychological Approaches to Communism." Presented to the Department of Political Science, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 27, 1977.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 - University Research Institute, Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013. 2006 - Dean’s Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts (University of Texas at Austin) 1999 - Dean’s Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts (University of Texas at Austin) 1994 - University Research Institute, Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas at Austin, Spring 1994. 1989 - University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1989) 1989 - University Research Institute Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 1988 - President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award ($5000; University of Texas at Austin) 1985 -Policy Research Institute Travel Grant (LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin) 1985 -University Research Institute Special Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin). 1984 - University Research Institute Special Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 1982-1983 - University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas at Austin 1982-1983 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research 1982 -University Research Institute Special Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 1980 - University Research Institute Summer Research Award (University of Texas at Austin) 1981 - University Research Institute Special Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 1979 - Norwegian Travel Grant (Norwegian Information Service, 1979) 1979 - American Philosophical Society Research Grant. 1977 - Norwegian Travel Grant (Norwegian Information Service) 1977 - Committee on Faculty Support Research Grant (Harvard University) 1972 - Fritz O. Fernstrom Travelling Fellowship, (University of California) 1970 - Mabel McLeod Lewis Fellowship, (Stanford, CA) 1966-1969 National Defense Graduate Fellowship (three year award) 1966 - Phi Beta Kappa (Haverford College) 1966 - Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. 1966- Augustus Taber Murray Fellowship (Haverford College) 22
COURSES TAUGHT The University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Courses at (1979--) Scandinavian 373 The Philosophy of Kierkegaard Scandinavian 301 Scandinavian Civilization Scandinavian 373 The Social Dramas of Henrik Ibsen Scandinavian 358 Scandinavia in its Fiction Norwegian 506-507 First-Year Norwegian Norwegian 604 Accelerated First-Year Norwegian Norwegian 312K, 312L Second-Year Norwegian Scandinavian 379 Advanced Norwegian German 505-507 First-Year German GRC 301, GOV 314 Germany and Globalization European Studies 361 Sport and Political Ideology European Studies 361 Fascism and European Literature European Studies 361 Political Violence and the Modern Novel European Studies 361 The Spy/Traitor in History and Literature Humanities 350 Sport, Politics, and the Olympic Games Humanities 350 Anti-Semitism in History and Literature Humanities 350 History of European Racial Thought Afro-American Studies 374 Race and Sport in African-American Life Anthropology 324L Race, Biology, and Culture [co-taught] Anthropology 324L Race and Medicine in African-American Life Undergraduate Honors (TC 357) Pharmacology and Human Enhancement GRC 301 Bad Blood: Stereotypes & Marginalization in European Culture AMS 370 The War on Drugs: An Historical Critique SCA 335 Scandinavian and Globalization LAH 350 The Origins of Political Correctness AFR 374D Race and Medicine in African-American Life SCA 369 Advanced Norwegian Language & Culture NOR 612 Accelerated Second-Year Norwegian UGS 303 The Age of Globalization GRC 360E Sports and Globalization [co-taught] EUS 305 Introduction to European Studies JS 301 Introduction to Jewish Studies
The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Courses at (1979--) German 392 The Tales of Isak Dinesen [1982] German 392 Philosophy of Kierkegaard [1984] German 382M Germans and Jews in Central Europe [1990, 1996] German 382M Ernst Jünger and the Modern Age [1992] German 382M Sport in Germany: Historical and Culture Perspectives
Harvard Summer School (1981, 1982, 1987) Comparative Literature S-167 Modern Drama 23 Comparative Literature S-162 Political Violence and the Modern Novel
Harvard University (Extension Courses 1977-1979) Comparative Literature E-167a. The Scandinavian Novel in its European Context
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (1975-1979) Humanities 34 Scandinavian Civilization Scandinavian 112 The Philosophy of Kierkegaard Scandinavian 169 The Plays of Henrik Ibsen Scandinavian 213 Scandinavian Literature (1880-1914) Comparative Literature 167 The Scandinavian Novel in its European Context Comparative Literature 168 Ibsen and Strindberg Comparative Literature 169 Strindberg and Expressionism Winthrop 108 Sport and Political Ideology Winthrop 110 The Existentialist Tradition Freshman Seminar Topics in Political Psychology
University of Wisconsin, Madison (1974-1975) Scandinavian 101-102 First-Year Norwegian Scandinavian 201-202 Second-Year Norwegian
University of California, Berkeley (1970-1972) Scandinavian 4A-4B-4C Elementary Norwegian
M.A. Theses Carol Rhoades, 1981
Ph.D. Dissertations Samuel McLellan John Casey Black David Brenner Jeffrey Grossman Martin Humpal
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS (University and Departmental Service)
2000, 2001, 2014 - Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts 1989-1994 - Director, European Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts 1992-present - Budget Council (elected, 1985 -1990, 1991-1992; permanent, 1992--) 1991-1992 - Search Committee, Chair of The Center for African and African American Studies 1990-1991 - Committee on Multicultural Education, College of Liberal Arts 1985-1986; 1988-1994; 2001-2005 - Graduate Adviser 1980-1982 - Journal Club, Chairman 1980-1981 - Scandinavian Club, Adviser 1979-1981 - Course Committee