Susan Brownell
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| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Virginia University of California Santa Barbara |
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Susan Brownell is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Missouri St. Louis, where she has been based since 1994. She has also taught at Middlebury College, the University of Washington, Yale University, and Heidelberg University. She is an expert on sport in China, the Olympic Games, World’s Fairs, and the anthropology of the body and gender.
She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Biography
Work
Some of her work focuses on the body in culture and society; medical anthropology; gender and sexuality; plastic surgery; beauty pageants; and world's fairs. She teaches at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
In 2015, she won the University of Missouri St. Louis's Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creativity.
Books
- Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
- Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader (co-edited with Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, University of California Press, 2002)
- Liang Lijuan, He Zhenliang and China’s Olympic Dream (translation, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2007)
- Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
- The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Race, Sport, and American Imperialism (edited, University of Nebraska Press, 2008, winner of the 2009 Anthology Award from the North American Society for Sport History)
- The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports (co-edited with William Kelly, Yale Council on East Asian Studies Monograph Series, 2011)
- Special Issue on ″Olympic and World Sport: Making Transnational Society?″ British Journal of Sociology, vol. 63, no. 2 (June 2012) (credited with Richard Giulianotti)
- From Athens to Beijing: West Meets East in the Olympic Games, vol. I: Sport, the Body and Humanism in Ancient Greece and China (edited, Greekworks, 2013)
- The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (co-authored with Niko Besnier and Thomas F. Carter, University of California Press, 2017; translated into Spanish, French, and Japanese)
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