Physical Cultural Studies and Sport History Research Group

Distinguished University Scholar and Professor

Dr. Patricia Vertinsky is a Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Kinesiology. She is a social and cultural historian working across the fields of women’s and gender history with a special interest on physical culture, physical education and modern dance. Her work focuses on the study of normalizing disciplinary regimes in kinesiology, sport science and physical culture and the social, political, and scientific context in which they have been conceived and promoted. She is particularly interested in regimes of risk and the gendered body in relation to patterns of physical culture and globalization in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. Vertinsky is an International Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology, Past-President of the North American Society of Sport History, past Vice-President of the International Society for Physical Education and Sport History.

Education

University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Honorary Doctorate in Science
University of British Columbia, Ed.D., Social Foundations of Education
University of California at Los Angeles, M.Sc., Sociology and Kinesiology
Birmingham University, England, Diploma of Education
Birmingham University, England, B.A., Hons. History and Physical Education

Contact

   604-822-6235
   patricia.vertinsky@ubc.ca

Caitlin O'Reilly, BSW, MPP

Cassandra Wells, BPHE, MSc

Victoria Felkar, BKIN, CSEP, MA

Nadine Kallas, BKIN

Kimberley Ekstrand, BA (Social and Cultural Anthroplogy)

Aishwarya Ramachandran, BKIN