Lucy Boucher is a PhD graduate from the University of Brunel, London, in Creative Writing and English Literature. She is currently working on a dissertation examining the power of mimetic desire and the rhetoric employed to sell the idea of the ‘fit’ and ‘healthy’ body in the burgeoning consumer culture of the late 19th century...
After two decades in a city that outlaws skyscrapers, followed by a five year stint chasing the elusive sage grouse in the midnight landscape of the Oregon Outback and scrutinizing the eating behaviors of obese primates when fed the typical American diet disguised as Kibbles n’ Bits, Ciera, Texas’ prodigal daughter, finds herself orbiting the...
I am currently entering year three of the Ph.D. program for Physical Culture and Sport Studies.Currently, my research interests include “History of Exercise Science and Exercise as a Science” and the “History of the Field of Theory and Methodology of Sports Training.” Degrees 2011 – B.S. Kinesiology at Iowa State University 2013 – M.Ed. Higher Education at Iowa...
Jessica Luther is a PhD candidate completing a dissertation about the University of Texas women’s basketball team in the 1970s, focusing on Title IX, race, and gender. Luther is an award-winning investigative journalist with an expertise in the intersection of gendered violence and sport. Degrees B.A. in Classical Civilizations from Florida State University Masters in...
PhD candidate Erin Crownover is starting her fourth year in the PCSS program. Her research interests surround racial and gender attitudes in sports history and early athletic training. She is working on her dissertation on early athletic training at UT Austin. Erin is currently a research associate for the Voice in Sport Foundation, program manager for...
