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Mary Jo Kane is a professor in the School of Kinesiology and
the director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women
in Sport in the College of Education and Human Development. The
Tucker Center is the first and only university-based institute for
research on girls and women in sport in the nation. Dr. Kane is
also an adjunct professor with the Department of American Studies in the College of
Liberal Arts. She has served as director of the School of Kinesiology
since 2005.
Professor Kane received her Ph.D. from the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1985 with an emphasis in sport
sociology. She is an internationally recognized scholar who has published
extensively on the media's stereotypic treatment of athletic females.
She is also known as an expert on the passage, implementation and
impact of Title IX.
In 1996, Professor Kane was awarded the first
Endowed Chair related to women in sport: The Dorothy McNeill and
Elbridge Ashcraft Tucker Chair for Women in Exercise Science and
Sport. Dr. Kane was recently elected by her peers as a Fellow in
the American Academy of Kinesiology, the highest honor in her field;
she was inducted into the Academy in the fall of 2002. In spring
2003, Professor Kane received the Scholar of the Year Award from
the Women's Sports Foundation. This award is given to researchers
who make significant research contributions in the area of women's
sports.
In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Professor
Kane teaches a number of courses in the School of Kinesiology (e.g.,
Women in Sport & Leisure and Sport & Society) as well as conducts
graduate seminars. In 2002, she was elected by her peers to serve
as member of the University Senate's Faculty Consultative Committee.
Areas of specialization
Sport sociology
Research interests
Media representation of women in sport
Academic degrees
- Ph.D., summa cum laude, University of Illinois, Champaign,
IL, 1985
Major: education, Emphasis: leisure studies
- M.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1982
Major: leisure studies, Emphasis: research methodology
- B.A., Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 1973
Double major: sociology and anthropology
Selected publications
Kane, M.J., & Buysse, J. (2005). Intercollegiate
media guides as contested terrain: a longitudinal analysis. Sociology
of Sport Journal, 22(2), 214-238.
Kane, M.J. (in press). Sociological aspects
of sport and physical activity. In J. Parks & J. Quarterman (Eds.),
Contemporary sport management, 3rd ed. Champaign, IL: Human
Kinetics.
Staurowsky, E., Lerner, P., Kane, M.J., Hogshead-Maher,
N., Wughalter, E., Yiamouyiannis, A. (in press). Gender equity in
physical education and athletic. S. Klein (Ed.), Handbook for
achieving gender equity through education. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins Press
Iannotta, J., & Kane, M.J. (2002). Sexual stories
as resistance narratives in women’s sports: Reconceptualizing identity
performance. Sociology of Sport Journal, 19, 347-369.
Kane, M.J. (1998). Fictional denials of female
empowerment: A feminist analysis of young adult sports fiction.
Sociology of Sport Journal, 15, 231-262.
Full vitae [.pdf]
Revised February 2006
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