Dr. Russell Field
Dr. Russell Field
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
118 Frank Kennedy Centre
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Phone: 204-474-8312
Fax: 204-474-7634
russell.field@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
As a historian interested in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, I have two primary lines of research.
The first examines global sporting events, often ones that are lesser known but take on the form of larger games such as the Olympics, where athletes compete teams under their “nation’s” flag. This program of research includes a number of projects that examine both historical and contemporary examples of global sporting events, including the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in Djakarta, Indonesia, and more current events such as the VIVA World Cup and the Homeless World Cup.
Secondly, I have an interest in the cultural representations of sport and physical activity found in both narrative and documentary films. I both teach and write about sport film, as well as being the founder and executive director of the Canadian Sport Film Festival (www.sportfilmfestival.ca).
My recent work focused on spectators, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. My doctoral research was a study of hockey spectators at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens and New York’s Madison Square Gardens in the 1930s: who they were, how they spectated, and what the experience meant to them.
Finally, my interests as a historian of sport recognize that Winnipeg and Manitoba offer a perfect setting to broaden our historical understanding of the development of Canadian sport and physical activity and I have begun a number of smaller local sport history projects.
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto (Graduate Program in Exercise Sciences), 2008
Doctoral project: A Night at the Garden(s): A History of Professional Hockey Spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s (supervisor: Dr. Bruce Kidd)
M.A., University of Toronto (Department of History), 2000
M.B.A., Queen’s University, 1991
B.A., Queen’s University, 1989
Recent Publications
Monographs
Field, Russell. A Night at the Gardens: Hockey Spectators in New York and Toronto in the Interwar Years. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, submitted).
Edited Collections
Field, Russell, (Ed.). Contested Terrain: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation [Essays in Honour of Bruce Kidd]. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, submitted).
Special Issue/Edited Collection
Popovic, Megan, and Russell Field. (Eds.) “Autobiography and Autoethnography in Sport History,” Sport History Review, 44 (1), 2013.
Kidd, Bruce and Russell Field, (Eds.). “‘To Remember is to Resist:’ 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008.” Sport in Society, 13(1) January 2010.
Kidd, Bruce and Russell Field, (Eds.). ‘To Remember is to Resist:’ 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008. New York and London: Routledge, 2011.
Articles
Field, Russell, “Representing the Rocket: The filmic use of Maurice Richard in Canadian history.” Journal of Sport History, 40 (3), 2013 (forthcoming).
Field, Russell. “Chasing My Grandfather’s Shadow: The Transformation of Geza Feldman and the Role of Physical Activity in the Life of George Field.” Sport History Review, 44 (1), 2013, pp. 53-76.
Field, Russell, “‘How we think about hockey, and ourselves’: Television, the 1972 Summit Series, and the construction of a pan-Canadian identity.” Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens, Winter 2012, pp. 40-45.
Field, Russell. "'To Remember is to Resist:' An Introduction." Sport in Society, 13(1), January 2010; pp. 6-11.
Field, Russell. “Constructing the Preferred Spectator: Arena Design and Operation and the Consumption of Hockey in 1930s Toronto.” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 25 (6), May 2008, pp. 649-677.
Field, Russell. “Manufacturing memories and directing dreams: Commemoration, community, and the closing of Maple Leaf Gardens.” International Journal of Canadian Studies, 35, 2007, pp. 61-93.
Field, Russell. “The Ties That Bind: A 2003 Case Study of Toronto’s Sport Elite and the Operation of Commercial Sport.” International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41 (1), 2006, pp. 29-58.
Field, Russell. “Passive Participation: The Selling of Spectacle and the Construction of Maple Leaf Gardens, 1931.” Sport History Review, 33(1), May 2002, pp. 35-50.
Chapters and Proceedings
Field, Russell. “For Jets and Country: A month-long reminder of how sport matters” [Introduction]. In Field, Russell, (Ed.). Contested Terrain: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation [Essays in Honour of Bruce Kidd]. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, under review).
Field, Russell. “The New ‘Culture Wars’: The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Public Protest, and the Politics of Resistance.” In Field, Russell, (Ed.). Contested Terrain: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation [Essays in Honour of Bruce Kidd]. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, under review).
Field, Russell. “Sport and the Canadian Immigrant: Physical Expressions of Cultural Identity within a Dominant Culture, 1896-1945.” In Janelle Joseph, Simon Darnell, and Yuka Nakamura, (Eds.). Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2012).
Field, Russell. “Stoic Observers or Fanatic Fans? Women Ice Hockey Spectators in 1930s North America.” In Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett, (Eds.). Sport and its Female Fans (New York and London: Routledge, 2012).Field, Russell. “‘There’s more people here tonight than at a first night of the Metropolitan’: Professional Hockey Spectatorship in the 1920s in New York and Toronto”. In Andrew Holman. (Ed.). Canada’s Game? Critical Essays on Ice Hockey and Identity. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
Courses to be taught in 2013-2014
PERS 1500 – Foundations of Kinesiology and Physical Education
PERS 3170 – Canadian Sport History
PERS 4200 – Special Topic: The Olympics and Global Sporting Events
PERS 4200 – Special Topic: Sport, Film, and Society
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
118 Frank Kennedy Centre
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Phone: 204-474-8312
Fax: 204-474-7634
russell.field@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
As a historian interested in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, I have two primary lines of research.
The first examines global sporting events, often ones that are lesser known but take on the form of larger games such as the Olympics, where athletes compete teams under their “nation’s” flag. This program of research includes a number of projects that examine both historical and contemporary examples of global sporting events, including the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in Djakarta, Indonesia, and more current events such as the VIVA World Cup and the Homeless World Cup.
Secondly, I have an interest in the cultural representations of sport and physical activity found in both narrative and documentary films. I both teach and write about sport film, as well as being the founder and executive director of the Canadian Sport Film Festival (www.sportfilmfestival.ca).
My recent work focused on spectators, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. My doctoral research was a study of hockey spectators at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens and New York’s Madison Square Gardens in the 1930s: who they were, how they spectated, and what the experience meant to them.
Finally, my interests as a historian of sport recognize that Winnipeg and Manitoba offer a perfect setting to broaden our historical understanding of the development of Canadian sport and physical activity and I have begun a number of smaller local sport history projects.
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto (Graduate Program in Exercise Sciences), 2008
Doctoral project: A Night at the Garden(s): A History of Professional Hockey Spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s (supervisor: Dr. Bruce Kidd)
M.A., University of Toronto (Department of History), 2000
M.B.A., Queen’s University, 1991
B.A., Queen’s University, 1989
Recent Publications
Monographs
Field, Russell. A Night at the Gardens: Hockey Spectators in New York and Toronto in the Interwar Years. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, submitted).
Edited Collections
Field, Russell, (Ed.). Contested Terrain: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation [Essays in Honour of Bruce Kidd]. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, submitted).
Special Issue/Edited Collection
Popovic, Megan, and Russell Field. (Eds.) “Autobiography and Autoethnography in Sport History,” Sport History Review, 44 (1), 2013.
Kidd, Bruce and Russell Field, (Eds.). “‘To Remember is to Resist:’ 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008.” Sport in Society, 13(1) January 2010.
Kidd, Bruce and Russell Field, (Eds.). ‘To Remember is to Resist:’ 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008. New York and London: Routledge, 2011.
Articles
Field, Russell, “Representing the Rocket: The filmic use of Maurice Richard in Canadian history.” Journal of Sport History, 40 (3), 2013 (forthcoming).
Field, Russell. “Chasing My Grandfather’s Shadow: The Transformation of Geza Feldman and the Role of Physical Activity in the Life of George Field.” Sport History Review, 44 (1), 2013, pp. 53-76.
Field, Russell, “‘How we think about hockey, and ourselves’: Television, the 1972 Summit Series, and the construction of a pan-Canadian identity.” Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens, Winter 2012, pp. 40-45.
Field, Russell. "'To Remember is to Resist:' An Introduction." Sport in Society, 13(1), January 2010; pp. 6-11.
Field, Russell. “Constructing the Preferred Spectator: Arena Design and Operation and the Consumption of Hockey in 1930s Toronto.” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 25 (6), May 2008, pp. 649-677.
Field, Russell. “Manufacturing memories and directing dreams: Commemoration, community, and the closing of Maple Leaf Gardens.” International Journal of Canadian Studies, 35, 2007, pp. 61-93.
Field, Russell. “The Ties That Bind: A 2003 Case Study of Toronto’s Sport Elite and the Operation of Commercial Sport.” International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41 (1), 2006, pp. 29-58.
Field, Russell. “Passive Participation: The Selling of Spectacle and the Construction of Maple Leaf Gardens, 1931.” Sport History Review, 33(1), May 2002, pp. 35-50.
Chapters and Proceedings
Field, Russell. “For Jets and Country: A month-long reminder of how sport matters” [Introduction]. In Field, Russell, (Ed.). Contested Terrain: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation [Essays in Honour of Bruce Kidd]. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, under review).
Field, Russell. “The New ‘Culture Wars’: The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Public Protest, and the Politics of Resistance.” In Field, Russell, (Ed.). Contested Terrain: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation [Essays in Honour of Bruce Kidd]. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, under review).
Field, Russell. “Sport and the Canadian Immigrant: Physical Expressions of Cultural Identity within a Dominant Culture, 1896-1945.” In Janelle Joseph, Simon Darnell, and Yuka Nakamura, (Eds.). Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2012).
Field, Russell. “Stoic Observers or Fanatic Fans? Women Ice Hockey Spectators in 1930s North America.” In Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett, (Eds.). Sport and its Female Fans (New York and London: Routledge, 2012).Field, Russell. “‘There’s more people here tonight than at a first night of the Metropolitan’: Professional Hockey Spectatorship in the 1920s in New York and Toronto”. In Andrew Holman. (Ed.). Canada’s Game? Critical Essays on Ice Hockey and Identity. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
Courses to be taught in 2013-2014
PERS 1500 – Foundations of Kinesiology and Physical Education
PERS 3170 – Canadian Sport History
PERS 4200 – Special Topic: The Olympics and Global Sporting Events
PERS 4200 – Special Topic: Sport, Film, and Society
