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Catriona M. Parratt
Associate Professor
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University of Iowa
Dept. of Health and Sport Studies
E112 Field House
Iowa City, IA 52242-1111
319-335-9339 voice / 319-335-6669 fax / catriona-parratt@uiowa.edu
Interests
- Sport and leisure history
- Gender and class
- Sport and place
- Nationalism
Education
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Colummbus, OH, 1994
Physical Education
M.HK. University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1984
Human Kinetics
Diploma Carnegie School of Physical Education, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, England, 1978
Physical Education
B.A. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, 1977
History and Physical Education
Honors and Awards
Keynote Address, Korean Alliance for Health, Sport, Physical Education and Recreation Congress, Seoul, August 2007.
Reet Howell Distinguished Lecture, Australian Society for Sport History, June 2005.
John R. Betts Lecture, North American Society for Sport History, May 2003.
Selected Publications
"Wasn't it ironic? The 'Haxey Hood' and the Great War," (2006) in Murray G. Phillips, ed., Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 131-146.
'More than Mere Amusement': Working Class Women's Leisure in England, 1750-1914. (2002). Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press.
"Keeping the 'Whoam' fires burning: Domestic yearnings in Mid-Victorian Lancashire dialect poetry." (2001) in Ian Inkster, ed., The Golden Age c. 1850-1870, London: Ashgate.
"Of place and men, and women: Topophilia and gender in the Haxey Hood." (2000) Journal of Sport History 27:229-245.
"Making leisure work: Women and rational recreation in Late Victorian and Edwardian England." (1999) Journal of Sport History, 26. 471-478.
"Little means or time: Working-class women and leisure in Late Victorian and Edwardian England." (1998) International Journal of the History of Sport, 15:22-53.
"About turns: Reflecting on sport history in the 1990s." (1998) Sport History Review, 29: 4-17.
"'The Making of the Healthy and Happy Home': Education, recreation, and the production of working-class womanhood at the Rowntree Cocoa Works, York, c. 1889-1914," (1996) in Jack Williams and Jeff Hills, eds., Sport and Identity in the North of England, Keele, Staffs: University of Keele Press, pp. 53-83.
Courses Taught at the University of Iowa
- Western World Sport: Greeks to Present
- History of Sport in the US to 1900
- History of Women in Sport
- Women, Sport & Culture
- Seminar in Sport History
- Sport and Nationalism
