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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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