Institutions
Universities, athletic programs, governments, media organizations, and civic groups shape the meaning and reach of sport.
Research
Sport, institutions, and public culture
This research uses sport not as an isolated subject, but as a meeting place for institutional ambition, regional identity, race, politics, memory, and mass culture.
Sports History
Athletic rivalries can reveal how communities describe themselves, manage conflict, remember the past, and negotiate social and institutional change.
Identity
Regional, local, racial, class, and institutional identities become visible through traditions, narratives, symbols, and conflict.
Public Culture
Games create recurring public events through which historical tensions can be performed, revised, forgotten, or remembered.
Dissertation project
The Georgia–Georgia Tech rivalry as a historical lens
Working title
War, Games: The UGA-GT Rivalry and Cultural Tensions During the War and Cold War Era
The project uses the Georgia–Georgia Tech football rivalry as a lens for understanding World War II, the Cold War, higher education, race, regional identity, federalization, and public culture in Georgia and the South.
The rivalry provides a recurring public setting in which institutional and regional tensions can be studied across periods of war, political change, educational expansion, and social transformation.
Related Research Areas
History of Science
Scientific knowledge and institutions in relation to politics, culture, education, authority, and historical change.
Historiography
The questions, evidence, methods, and contexts that produce different historical interpretations over time.
Public Writing
Historically grounded writing intended for readers beyond a specialized academic setting.
Research Archive
Selected legacy materials remain available while research and public writing move into the new site.