Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: sport, women's sport, feminist theory, cultural studies, cultural memory

About Me: I am an associate professor of Kinesiology at Penn State, with an affiliate faculty appointment in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. I am the author or editor of five books, including Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport History (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and Women’s Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018). I have published more than fifty article or book chapters, many of which focus on the history of women in sport, racial politics, and cultural memory. I am also an award-winning teacher and the recipient of the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. I currently serve as the academic editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport and as co-editor for the University of Illinois Sport and Society series.

Recent Publications

Books

Jaime Schultz, Jean O’Reilly, and Susan K. Cahn. Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader, 2^nd Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2019.
Jaime Schultz, Women’s Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Jaime Schultz, Moments of Impact: Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football. University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Mark Dyreson and Jaime Schultz, eds. American National Pastimes—A History. London: Routledge, 2015.
Jaime Schultz, Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport History. University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Journal Articles

Jaime Schultz, “Good Enough? The ‘Wicked’ Use of Testosterone for Defining Femaleness in Women’s Sport,” Sport in Society (accepted for publication, June 13, 2019).
Adam Berg, Jaime Schultz, and Andrew D. Linden, “Manning Up: Modern Manhood, Pugilistic Capital, and Esquire Network’s White Collar Brawlers,” Journal of Sport and Social Issues (in press).
Jaime Schultz, “Women, Physical Activism, and the American Marathon, 1959-1972,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 40, no. 2 (in press, 2019).
Jaime Schultz, “Racialized Osteology and Athletic Aptitude, or ‘Black’ Bones as Red Herrings,” Journal of Sport History 46, no. 2 (in press, 2019).
Jaime Schultz, “Reimagining Obesity,” Quest 69, no. 2 (2017): 236-255.
Jaime Schultz, “Going the Distance: The Road to the 1984 Olympic Women’s Marathon,” The International Journal of the History of Sport 32, no. 1 (2015): 72-88.
Jaime Schultz, W. Lawrence Kenney, and Andrew D. Linden, “Heat-related Deaths in American Football: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” Sport History Review 45, no. 2 (2014): 123-144.
Jaime Schultz, “Glory Road and the ‘White Savior’ Historical Sport Film,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 42, no. 4 (2014): 205-213.
Jaime Schultz, “The Truth About Historical Sport Films,” Journal of Sport History 41, no.1 (2014): 29-45.