Brenda Elsey is an

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commonly known for researching about topics of

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such as

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or gender roles. Since 2008, she has been the co-director of the

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n and

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Studies program at

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. Similarly, she directed there the Women’s Studies program from 2009 to 2013. She won the Stessin Prize for the best faculty publication at Hofstra. On the other hand, she has written on sport and social justice for popular publications like «The New Republic», «The Allrounder» or «Sport's Illustrated». Likewise, alongside scholars like Shireen Ahmed, she co-hosts the weekly podcast, ''Burn It All Down'', the first feminist sports podcast to analyze sports culture from an intersectional feminist lens. Among her researchings, Elsey has stood out to study 20th-

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an politics from the football civic associations. Her first book about it was ''Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile'' (2011), which temporality covers from 1893 to 1973 Pinochet's coup.

Works

Books

* ''Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile''.

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; 2011. * ''Bad Ambassadors: A History of the Pan-American Games of the 1950s'', International Journal of Sport History. * ''As the World is My Witness: Popular Culture and the Chilean Solidarity Movement, 1974−1987'',

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in Topographies of Transnationalism; 2013. * ''Breaking the Machine: The Politics of South American Football'',

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in Global Latin America; 2016. * ''Football and the boundaries of History''.

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, 2017, 466 pages * ''Futbolera: Historia de la mujer y el deporte en América Latina''. Co-produced with Joshua Nadel; 2019.

Articles

* ''Sport, Gender, and Politics in Latin America'',

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’s Sport in History; 2014 * ''Football at the “end” of the World: the 1962 World Cup in Chile'', in Kay Schiller and Stefan Rinke’s Histories of the World Cup;

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, Wallstein, 2014.

References

External links

Profile at Hofstra University

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elsey, Brenda Living people American historians Michigan State University alumni Stony Brook University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Hofstra University faculty