Criteria | Nominations | Recipients
Criteria
The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport invites nominations for its annual book award using the following criteria:
- The book offers a scholarly analysis of a sport related issue or phenomenon written from a sociological, anthropological, or related perspective.
- The book was first published in 2008.
- The book has not previously been a NASSS book award selection (book may be re-nominated within appropriate copyright dates).
- Books from authors who are not NASSS members are eligible.
- Edited collections and undergraduate text books are not eligible.
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Nominations Deadline
Nominations must be received by March 1, 2009. Nominations may be made using the Book Award Nomination Form, and submitted via mail, email, or fax using the to:
Michelle Helstein, NASSS Book Award Committee Chair
Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4
Phone: (403) 380-1812
Fax: (403) 380-1839
Email: helsmt[at]uleth.ca
The winner of the award will be announced at the Annual Meeting of NASSS in Ottawa, Canada, November 4-7, 2009.
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Recipients
- 2008 Earl Smith
- Race, Sport and the American Dream
- 2007 Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle
- Foucault, sport and exercise: power knowledge and transforming the self.
- 2006 Michael D. Giardina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sporting Pedagogies: Performing Culture & Identity in the Global Arena
- 2005 Sherri Grasmuck
- Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball
- 2004 Michael Messner, University of Southern California
- Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sport
- 2003 Dan Nathan, Skidmor
- Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
- 2002 Michael Robidoux, University of Ottawa
- Men at Play: A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey
- 2001 Nancy Theberge, University of Waterloo
- Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
- 2000 Varda Burstyn
- The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport
- 1999 Eric Dunning, University of Leicester
- Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence, and Civilization
- 1998 John Sugden, University of Brighton
- Boxing and Society: An International Analysis
- 1997 Alan Klein, Northeastern University
- Baseball on the Border
- 1996 Jennifer Hargreaves, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sports
- 1995 Todd Crosset, University of Massachusetts
- Outsiders in the Clubhouse: Class and Gender on the Women's Professional Golf Tour
- 1994 No Award Given
- 1993 Michael Messner, University of Southern California
- Power at Play: Sport and the Problems of Masculinity
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