Mary Jo Kane, PhD

Kane

Professor, Sport Sociology
Director, Tucker Center

Areas of Interest

Sport sociology, Title IX

Graduate education faculty

Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport

School of Kinesiology

202B Cooke Hall
1900 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Tel: 612-625-3870

Fax: 612-626-7700

Curriculum Vitae


Degrees

  • Ph.D., summa cum laude, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1985,
    Major: Leisure studies, emphasis: sport sociology.
  • 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

 

Mary Jo Kane is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and also serves as 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 university-based institute in the nation conducting interdisciplinary research on girls and women in sport. Professor Kane served as director of the School of Kinesiology from 2005 to 2011.
 
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.
 
In 2001, Professor Kane was elected by her peers as a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology, the highest academic honor in her field and was inducted into the Academy in the fall of 2002. In the spring of 2003, she received the Scholar of the Year Award from the Women's Sports Foundation. This award is given to scholars who make significant research contributions in the area of women's sports. In 2007, the Institute of International Sport named Professor Kane one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators. In 2012 she received a Distinguished Service Award from the Minnesota Coalition of Women in Athletic Leadership. This honor is bestowed on those individuals who exemplify the highest levels of commitment and contributions to breaking barriers for girls and women in sport.
 
 In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Professor Kane teaches a number of courses in the School of Kinesiology (e.g., Women in Sport and Sport & Society) and conducts graduate seminars. In 2002, she was elected by her peers to serve as member of the University Senate's Faculty Consultative Committee and from 2006-08 she served as the vice-chair of the University Senate.

Selected Publications

  1. Kane, M. J. (in press). Title IX at 40: Examining mysteries, myths & misinformation surrounding the historic federal law. PCFSN Research Digest.

  2. Kane, M.J. (2011, August). Sex sells sex, not women's sports. The Nation Magazine, 293(7), pp. 28-29.

  3. LaVoi, N. M., & Kane, M. J. (2011). Sport sociology for sport management. In P. Pedersen, L. Thibault, & J. Quarterman (Eds.), Contemporary Sport Management (4th ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

  4. Kane, M. J., & Maxwell, H. D. (2011). Expanding the boundaries of sport media research: Using critical theory to explore consumer responses to representations of women’s sports. Journal of Sport Management. 25(3), 202-216.

  5. Kane, M. J. (2010). We have passed this way before: A response to “Dollar dilemmas during the downturn—a financial crossroads for college sports.” Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 3, 135-146.

  6. Kane, M. J., Leo, P. & Holleran, L. (2008). Issues related to academic support and performance of Division I student-athletes: A case study at the University of Minnesota. Journal of Intercollegiate Sports, 1(1), 98-129.

  7. Staurowsky, E., Lerner, P., Kane, M. J., Hogshead-Maher, N., Wughalter, E., Yiamouyiannis, A. (2007). Gender equity in physical education and athletics. In S. Klein (Ed.), Handbook for achieving gender equity through education, 2nd ed. (pp. 381-410). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  8. Kane, M. J. (2007). Sociological aspects of sport and physical activity. In J. Parks & J. Quarterman (Eds.),Contemporary sport management, 3rd ed. (pp. 389-414). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

  9. Kane, M. J., & Buysse, J. (2005). Intercollegiate media guides as contested terrain: a longitudinal analysis.Sociology of Sport Journal, 22(2), 214-238.

  10. 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.

  11. Kane, M. J. (1998). Fictional denials of female empowerment: A feminist analysis of young adult sports fiction.Sociology of Sport Journal, 15, 231-262.

Presentations

  1. Kane, M. J. (2012, September). Title IX at 40: Changing the landscape of women’s sports. Invited presentation at American Association of University Women.

  2. Kane, M. J. (2012, April). Selling sex in media coverage of women’s sports: The good, the bad & the sexy. Invited presentation at Linda Arnold Carlisle Professorship Lecture Series, University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

  3. Kane, M. J. (2012, March). Media representations of female athletes: The good, the bad & the sexy. Invited presentation at Florida International University Honors College Excellence Lecture.

  4. Kane, M. J. (2012, March). Media representations of female athletes: The good, the bad and the sexy. AAHPERD Research Consortium Raymond A. Weiss Distinguished Lecture in Boston, March 14, 2012

  5. Kane, M.J. (2011, November). Sport media and female athletes: A great conversation with sport media scholars. Invited Keynote Panel presented at the Girls & Women in Sport and Physical Activity Conference: Creating Change, Minneapolis, MN.

  6. Kane, M. J. We have passed this way before: A response to “Dollar dilemmas during the downturn—a financial crossroads for college sports.” Paper presented at the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) conference, Atlanta, GA, January, 2010.

  7. Maxwell, H., & Kane, M. J. Critical analysis of consumer responses to representations of women's sports. Paper to be presented at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) conference, Ottowa, Ontario, November, 2009.

  8. Kane, M. J. Media, gender, and sport in the 21st century. School of Arts & Sciences Diversity Initiative, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, October 2008

  9. Kane, M. J. The Portrayal of Female Athletes in the Media: Does Sex Really Sell? Invited presentation at the AP Sports Editors Annual Convention, Minneapolis, June, 2008.

  10. Kane, M. J. The federal law known as Title IX: What’s fact vs. fiction got to do with it? Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, November, 2007.

  11. Kane, M. J. Facts, fiction, and the future: Men’s sports and women’s opportunities. Commemoration of the 35th Anniversary of the Passage of Title IX, Stanford University Law School, Palo Alto, CA, April, 2007.


© 2013 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer
Last modified on 2/5/2013