As we enjoy the return of college football this fall, join us for a roundtable discussion on sport history in Arizona. From the origins of the Border Conference in the 1930s and desegregating college football teams to Mexican-American baseball players, female bulldoggers and a female sports journalist, this roundtable discussion has something for everyone. Authors from our special issue will talk about their articles and research on the history of sports in Arizona. 

The sports history articles are free for the month of September! Read them here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47140

After discussing the article, the audience will have a chance to ask our authors questions. Join us for another exciting “Ask the Author” program from the Arizona Historical Society. 

Heidi Osselaer, PhD, is the author of two books—Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950 (University of Arizona Press, 2008) and Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018)—as well as numerous articles on Arizona history. She has taught at Arizona State University and Maricopa County Community Colleges and currently is Director of the Arizona History Convention.  

Frank Whitehead is the Graduate Program Coordinator in the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and a Summer Session Instructor in history at the University of Arizona. His research focuses primarily on the intertwined history of gender and human-animal relationships in the 19th and 20th century US West, especially within the realms of ranching and rodeo.

Alex Nuñez is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Arizona studying U.S. History and Mexican American Studies. His dissertation, “Field of Dreamers: Becoming Mexican American through the National Pastime,” focuses on race, gender, community, and Mexican American identity formation through participation in baseball. He also serves as the Assistant Director of Recruitment and Admissions for the W.A. Franke Honors College at the University of Arizona.

S Zebulon Baker is the founding executive director of the Honors College at Miami University in Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University (2009) and has published widely on the racial desegregation of college sports.

Dr. Doyle holds a doctorate from Emory University, where his studies focused on the history of the American South. He is an associate professor of history at Winthrop University, where he teaches courses in U.S. social and cultural history, southern history, sports history, and religious history. His research interests focus on the history of sports in the South, and he has published articles in such journals as Southern Cultures, the Journal of Sport History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport as well as several book chapters. At present he is completing a book manuscript on the social history of southern college football between the 1880s and World War I for the University of Illinois Press. Doyle is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the History of Sport.