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(Jan) Todd, Ph.D. Director, HJ Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture Updated 03/11/2021 Janice S. (Jan) Todd, Ph.D. Director, H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports Professor & Roy J. McLean Fellow in Sport History Kinesiology and Health Education The University of Texas at Austin Telephone: 512-471-0993 (office) 512-471-4890 (Stark) 512-694-6237 (cell) E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] Office: NEZ 5.700, D 3600 The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports 403 DeLoss Dodds Blvd. The University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 Educational Background 1995 Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin — American Civilization Program. Specialization areas: Exercise and Sport History, Sociology and Gender, American History, American Studies. 1976 M.Ed. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. Specialization: English Education 1974 B.A. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. Majors: Philosophy and English. Minor: Education. Employment 2013-date Professor and Roy J. McLean Fellow in Sport History, Director, H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports; Coordinator, Sport Management and Physical Culture and Sport Studies; Cross-Appointed in Women and Gender Studies; Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 2007-2013 Professor and Roy J. McLean Fellow in Sport History, Director, H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports; Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 2002-2007 Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 2000-2002 Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. Updated 03/11/2021 1997-2000 Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Strength Training and Conditioning, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 1989-1997 Lecturer and Coordinator of Strength Training and Conditioning, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 1985-1989 Specialist, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 1984-1985 Research Associate, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin. 1983-1985 Columnist, Strength Training for Beauty, monthly fitness magazine published by Runners World, Inc. (Part-time) 1979-1983 Fitness and strength training consultant, Diversified Products Corporation, Opelika, Alabama. 1981-1982 Strength Coach for Women (part-time) Auburn University Athletic Department, Auburn University. 1980-1981 Managing Editor, The Powerlifter, official magazine of the United States Powerlifting Federation. 1976-1979 Teacher—English and History, New Germany Rural High School, New Germany, Nova Scotia, Canada. 1975-1976 Administrative Assistant, Department of Music, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 1974-1975 Assistant Director, University Year for Action Project, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. (UYA was a federally funded program designed to provide college students with internships at social service agencies.) Updated 03/11/2021 Editorial Contributions, Abstract Reviewing, & Other Academic Contributions 2018-date Executive Editorial Board Member, Kinesiology Review, National Academy of Kinesiology. 1990-date Co-Founder and Co-Editor (with Terry Todd) of Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, a peer-reviewed academic journal searchable though both SportsDiscus (EBSCO) and the digital library of the Paul Ziffern Sport Resource Center (www.LA84. org) operated by the LA84 Foundation. See www.starkcenter.org for archival copies. 2017 Mentor/Advisor to North American Society for Sport History Graduate Essay Contest Winner Ben Pollack. 2015 Mentor/Advisor to North American Society for Sport Management Graduate Essay Contest Winner Florian Hemme. 2012 Mentor/Advisor to North American Society for Sport History Graduate Essay Contest Winner Dominic Morais. 1996-date Article reviewer for: Journal of Sport History, International Journal of Sport History, Journal of Sport Management, Reviews in Kinesiology, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, etc. 2015-2017. Chair, National Conference Planning Committee and Abstract Reviewer, North American Society for Sport History; I also put sessions together thematically and designed the programs. 2012 Abstract Reviewer, for the International Convention on Science, Education, and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, Scotland. 2007-2009 Chair, Publications Board, North American Society for Sport History. 2002-2005 Editorial Board Member, ACSM Health and Fitness Journal, American College of Sports Medicine. 1989 Contributor/Co-editor National Strength and Conditioning Association's Position Paper on Strength Training for Women, 1989. Published in two parts as: "Strength Training for Female Athletes, Part I, National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal 11(4) 1989: 43- 55; and: "Strength Training for Female Athletes," Part II, National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal 11(5) 1989: 29-36. Updated 03/11/2021 Publications, Creative Projects & Presentations Books 1. Jason Shurley, Jan Todd & Terry Todd, Strength Coaching in America: A History of the Innovation that Transformed Sports. (University of Texas Press, December 2019), 310 pages. Peer-Reviewed. 2. Jan Todd, Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998), 369 pages. Peer-Reviewed. 3. Jan Todd and Terry Todd, Lift Your Way to Youthful Fitness: The Comprehensive Guide to Weight Training, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985), 339 pages. Peer-Reviewed, Original-Research Part One: Book Chapters (*=Corresponding Author) 1. Kristen Wilson and Jan Todd, “The True Pioneer of TV Fitness: Paige Palmer of Cleveland’s WEWS TV,” Sport in Cleveland, Ohio (Little Rock: University of Arkansas Press, 2022) Accepted, In Press. 2. Schelfhout, Sam, Tolga Ozyurtcu & Jan Todd. “Spectatorship and the Sportification of Esports.” In Das Phänomen E-Sports, edited by Annette R. Hofmann, (Aachen, Germany: Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2020), 158-185. 3. Jan Todd, “Constructores de la Fuerza Fisica: una Historia de Barras, Mancuernas y Clavas,” in Pablo Ariedl Scharagrodsky and Cesar Torres, eds, El Rostro Cambiante Del Deporte: Perspectivas historiograficas angloparlates, (Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2019), 237-269. 4. Jan Todd* and Daniel Rosenke, “’The Event that Shook the Whole World Up’: Historicizing the 1983 Pan American Games Doping Scandal,” Historicizing the Pan- American Games, Bruce Kidd and Cesar Torres eds. (London: Routledge Press, 2017), 164-185. 5. Jan Todd* and Jason Shurley, “Building American Muscle: A Brief History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Pulley Machines, The Routledge History of American Sport. Eds. Linda Borish, David K. Wiggins, and Gerald R. Gems. (New York: Routledge, 2017), 332-344. 6. Jan Todd,* “The Halcyon Days of Muscle Beach: An Origin Story,” Sport in Los Angeles (Little Rock: University of Arkansas Press, 2017), 7. Thomas M. Hunt and Janice S. Todd, “Powerlifting’s Watershed: Frantz v. United States Powerlifting, the Legal Case that Changed the Nature of a Sport,” in Samuel Regalado and Sarah Fields, Sport and the Law: Historical and Cultural Intersections, (University of Arkansas Press, 2014), 75-93. 8. Jan Todd* and Terry Todd, “Reflections on the Parallel Federation to the Problem of Drug Use in Sport: The Cautionary Tale of Powerlifting,” Thomas Murray, ed., Performance Enhancing Technologies in Sport: Ethical, Conceptual and Scientific Issues. (John Hopkins Updated 03/11/2021 University Press, Press, 2009). 9. Jan Todd,* “Katie Sandwina and the Construction of Celebrity,” Sport and Gender Matters in Western Countries: Old Borders and New Challenges, edited by Gigliola Gori, (Academia Verlag, 2008), 97-110. 10. Jan Todd* and Terry Todd, “Legacy of Iron: A History of the Men, Women and Implements that Created the “Iron Game,’” in Lewis Bowling, ed., Resistance Training: The Total Approach. (North Carolina Academic Press, 2007), 165-215. 11. Jan Todd and Terry Todd, “Significant Events in the History of Drug Testing and the Olympic Movement: 1960-1999,” in Wayne Wilson and Edward Derse, eds., Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement,” (Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2000), 65-128. 12. Jan Todd, “Bring on the Amazons: An Evolutionary History,” Joanna Freuh, Judith Stein and Laurie Fierstein, eds., Picturing the Modern Amazon (New York: Rizzoli Internationale, 2000), 48-61. 13. Jan Todd, “Women’s Sport History,” in Eleanor Amico, ed., Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies, (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Press, 1998), 462-463. 14. Jan Todd, “Physical Fitness” in Eleanor Amico, ed., Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Press, 1998), 567-569. 15. Jan Todd, "Bernarr Macfadden: Reformer of Feminine Form," in: Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine, Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 213-232. Peer-Reviewed Articles of Original Research and Scholarly Reviews (*=Corresponding Author) 1. Tolga Ozyurtcu and Jan Todd, “Critical Mass: Oral History, Innovation Theory, and the Fitness Legacy of The Muscle Beach Scene,” International Journal of the History of Sport, Accepted March 5, 2020, In Press. 2. Hemme, F., Bowers, M.T., & Todd, J.S. (2020). Enacting Logics in Practice: A Critical Realist Perspective. Journal of Change Management, 20(2), 99-122. doi.org/ 10.1080/14697017.2019.1703025.
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