Participant Info
- First Name
- Erin
- Last Name
- Redihan
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY
- erin.redihan@salve.edu
- Affiliation
- Salve Regina University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Cold War, Olympics, Soviet Union, American Foreign Policy
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
My research centers on the ways in which the Cold War permeated international sport, especially the Olympics. My first book argued that both the superpowers and the Olympic Movement benefitted from the Cold War tensions that infiltrated the Olympics because the superpowers gained a high-visibility, yet low-stakes arena for their proxy battles, while the Olympic Movement profited off the attention and drama that these battles brought. My current research looks at the ways that anti-Soviet opposition groups leveraged the Olympics to draw attention to their causes during the late Cold War.
- Recent Publications
“‘We’ll Be Cheering Win, Lose, or Draw’: Ronald Reagan as the Olympic President.” Journal of Olympic Studies: 6 (2), Fall 2025.
“‘Winning for themselves, not for Moscow’: Baltic independence and the Olympic Games during the 1980s.” Journal of Olympic Studies: 2 (2), Fall 2021.
“The Gerald R. Ford Administration and the Olympic Movement: Political Games,” Sport History Review, April 2019.
The Olympics and the Cold War, 1948–1968: Sport as Battleground in the U.S.–Soviet Rivalry. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2017.
“Neville Chamberlain and Norway: The Trouble with ‘A Man of Peace” in a Time of War,” New England Journal of History, Spring 2013.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Eastern Europe, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Libraries & Archives, World War II
