Outstanding Book Award
This award is presented to the author(s) of the most outstanding book published in the previous calendar year.
Recipients
2010 Shari L. Dworkin (UCSF) and Faye Linda Wachs (Cal Poly Pomona) – Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness
2009 Thomas F. Carter (University of Brighton) – The Quality of Home Runs
2008 Earl Smith (Wake Forest University) – Race, Sport and the American Dream
2007 Pirkko Markula (University of Alberta) and Richard Pringle (University of Waikato) – 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 (Temple University) – 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 (Skidmore College) – 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 (Independent writer) – 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
1993 Michael Messner (University of Southern California) – Power at Play: Sport and the Problems of Masculinity