Congratulations to our American studies and Health and Sport Studies students for a very productive year!
Doctor of Philosophy
Kara Fagan* Framing Sport as Art: The Spectacle of Female Athleticism in Classic Hollywood, 1935-1955, Dissertation Advisors: Susan Birrell & Lauren Rabinovitz
Matthew Hodler The Greatest Olympian of All-Time? The Ideological Implications of Celebrating Michael Phelps, Dissertation Advisor: Susan Birrell
Sang Uk Joo Consuming Sporting Orientals: Reading Asian American Sport Celebrities, Dissertation Advisor: Susan Birrell
Marta Mack-Washington From Both Sides of the Plate: Effa Manley and American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity 1900-1948, Dissertation Advisor: Tina Parratt
Eileen Narcotta-Welp* "The Future of Football is Feminine": A Critical Cultural History of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, Dissertation Advisor: Susan Birrell
Yu-Kuei “Daniel” Sun Sporting Taiwan: Transnational Athletes in the Age of Neoliberal Imperialisms, Dissertation Advisor: Susan Birrell
Ivana Takacova Latent TB Positive in the U.S. War on Tuberculosis: Manufacturing the International Student as a Public Health Threat, Dissertation Advisor: Laura Rigal
Dan Taradash** Exodus of Champions: The Great Migration and the Shaping of the Civil Rights Activities of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, Dissertation Advisor: Tina Parratt
Allison Wanger** “These Honored Dead”: The National Cemetery System and the Politics of Cultural Memory since 1861, Dissertation Advisor: Nick Yablon
Larissa Werhnyak** Oh, Perjured Lover, Atone! Atone!: Breach of Promise to Marry in the United States, 1890-1940, Dissertation Advisor: Nick Yablon
*summer 2016 graduate
**recognized at the May 2015 ceremony
Master of Arts
Justin Feit
Katherine Walden
Departmental Awards
Alexander Kern Dissertation Travel Award
Stacey Moultry
Alexander Kern Professional Travel Award
Diann Rozsa (fall 2015)
Diane Williams (spring 2016)
Dain TePoel (spring 2016)
C. Pauline Spencer Scholarship
Katie Walden
Cathryn Lucas
Miriam Taylor Scholarship
Dain TePoel
Sport Studies travel awards
Dain TePoel (fall 2015)
Matt Hodler (fall 2015)
Katie Walden (spring 2016)
Chris Henderson (spring 2016)
Cathryn Lucas (spring 2016)
Matt Hodler (spring 2016)
University of Iowa Awards
Ballard-Seashore Dissertation Fellowships
Kara Fagan Framing Sport as Art: The Spectacle of Female Athleticism in Classic Hollywood, 1935-1955 (fall 2015)
Michael Winslow Sandhillers: Agriculture and the Culture of Development in North Carolina, 1870-1930 (spring 2016)
Dain TePoel Endurance Activism: Transcontinental Walks and the Politics of Movement Culture (spring 2017)
Obermann Institute on Engagement and the Academy 2016
Diane Williams
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award
Stephanie Grossnickle-Batterton (fall)
Dain TePoel (spring)
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Summer Research Award
Cathryn Lucas
Diann Rozsa
Marcus-Bach Dissertation Fellowship
Stephanie Grossnickle-Batterton (fall 2016)
N.E.W. Leadership Conference
Diane Williams
Outside Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors
Kara Fagan : Five College Women's Studies Research Center Research Associate, 2015-16
Eileen Narcotta-Welp : "A Black Fly in White Milk: The 1999 Women's World Cup, Briana Scurry, and the Politics of Inclusion," published in the Fall 2015 Journal of Sport History
Yu-Kuei Sun : Dissertation Fellowship for ROC Students Abroad from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Departmental Milestones
PhD Candidacy
James Oudenhoven
Diann Rozsa
Comprehensive Exam
Diane Williams
Prospectus (AMST) / Proposal (SPST)
Dain TePoel
New Positions 2016-17
Eileen Narcotta-Welp : Assistant Professor of Exercise and Sport Science, UW-La Crosse