Here you can find information about RERIS members
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Alberto Aragon-Perez
PhD
Independant scholar,
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Research interest:
Barcelona 92, Sustainability, Environnemental monitoring, Legacy
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Georgia Cervin
PhD
Researcher,
University of Western Australia
georgiacervn.research@gmail.com
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Research interest:
Gymnastics, Cold War, Women's sport, Olympic History
Anaïs Bohuon
PhD
Professor, University of Paris-Sud
Research interest:
Mecine, Sport, Body, Intersectionality
Natalia Camps y Wilant
PhD
Independant Scholar
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Research interest:
Olympic history, Olympic Art Competitions, Female participants, Coubertin Famille, Visual sources
Florys Castan-Vicente
PhD
Senior Researcher, University of Paris-Sud
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Research interest:
Women sports leaders, Gender, Feminism, Transnational influences
Yannick Deschamps
PhD
Lecturer, University of Picardie
yannick.deschamp@outlook..com
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Research interest:
Soviet Union, France, Sports diplomacy, Transnational influences, Cultural relations
Kateryna Chernii
PhD candidate
PhD student,
Leibniz centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
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Research interest:
History, Football, Ukraine, Soviet Union, Transformation, Legacy
Sylvain Dufraisse
PhD
Senior Lecturer, University of Nantes
sylvain.dufraisse@univ-nantes.fr
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Research interest
Soviet Union, Cold War, Elite sport, Socialist sport
François Doppler-Speranza
PhD
Researcher-Teacher, University of Strasbourg
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Research interest:
Basketball, US cultural and political history, public diplomacy, women and culture
Axel G. Elias Jimenez
PhD
Fullbright Research fellow,
City University of New York-Herbert H. Lehman College
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Research interest:
Political participation, Resistance, Cultural diplomacy
Javier Gonzalez-del-Castillo
PhD
Contratado FPU
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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javier.gonzalezdel@uam.es
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Research interest:
Soviet Union, Cold War, Moscow 80, Olympic History, Sport diplomacy
Tom Fabian
PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa
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Research interest:
Research interest: Traditional games, university sport, volleyball, globalization, nationalism
Rory Flindall
PhD candidate
Lecturer/Researcher, German Sport University-Cologne
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Research interest
Paralympic Studies, Media, Olympic Studies, History, Legacy
Andrea Franco
PhD
Contract Professor,
Università di Macerata
Research interest:
Russian-Ukrainian historical relations; Russo/Soviet Sport; History of skiing; History of Russian Art
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Yarden Har Lev
MA Student
Staff member, The Academic College at Wingtate, /German Sport University-Cologne
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Research interest:
Olympic History, Olympic Education, Israel & Olympic, Media, Football
Lucie Hémeury
PhD
Research Fellow, University of Lausanne
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Research interest:
History, Sport, Olympic Movement, International Sports Federations, Peronism, Argentina, Latin America
Deborah Guazzoni
Undergraduate student
Independant scholar
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Research interest:
Microhistory, Women's sport, Sport international Relationship, Gymnastic, Cycling Organizations
James A. Ivey
PhD student
PhD candidate, University of California
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Research interest:
Sport and Diplomacy, Cultural History, Cold War, Soviet Sport, African Sport
François-René Julliard
PhD
Lecturer (UPHF, Valenciennes)
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Research interest:
Black American athletes, Olympic History, Cold War, Cultural Diplomacy
George Kioussis
PhD
Assistant Professor, California State University - Northridge
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Research interest:
Football, Globalization, (Trans)nationalism, Exceptionnalism, Diplomacy
Kristoffer Klammer
PhD
Research Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
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kristoffer.klammer@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de
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Research interest:
Cultural History of modern sports, History of Refereeing, International Organizations, Authority and decision making in modern society
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
PhD
Independant scholar
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Research interest:
France, Cold War, Football, Basketball, Public Diplomacy
​Jörg Krieger
PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Aarhus
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Research interest:
Research Interests: History of International Sport Policy, Olympic Studies, Anti-Doping, Youth Olympic Games, Sport & Covid-19
Juliane Lanz
PhD
Head of Hochschusports, University of Rostock
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Research interest:
Olympic Studies, Alpine Sports, Sports Pedagogy in Eastern Germany
Lidia Lesnykh
PhD
SNSF Senior lecturer, University of Freiburg (Switzerland)
Head of Project, FISU
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Research interest:
International Sport, FISU, Cold War, Sport Diplomacy
Kevin Tallec Marston
PhD
Research Fellow & Academic Project Manager, CIES & Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, De Montfort University - Leicester
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Research interest:
History of Youth & Childhood, History of European football, American football (soccer) history, Governance and sporting institutions (UEFA, FIFA)
Igor Martinache
PhD
Associate Professor, University of Paris-Nanterre
igor.martinache@parisnanterre.fr
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Research interest:
Political science, History, Communist sport, Politics, Teachers, France
Johanna Mellis
PhD
Assistant Professor, Ursinus College
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Research interest:
Eastern Europe, World/Global History, Cold War, Oral history, Memory Studies, Authoritarianism
Souvik Naha
PhD
Assistant Professor, Durham University
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Research interets:
Cricket, Football, South Asia, Postcolonial studies, Narrative and visual theories
Claire Nicolas
PhD
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow researcher, University of Geneva
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Research interest:
Africa, Youth Movement, Education, Gender, Intersectionality, (Post)colonial sport, Modernity building
Cyril Polycarpe
PhD
Senior lecturer, University of Franche-Comté (Besançon)
cyril.polycarpe@univ.-fcomte.fr
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Research interest:
Olympic history, Sports elite, Governance and Olympics institutions (IOC, Olympic Movement), Contemporary history of bodies education in France
Kamil Potrzuski
PhD
Researcher in Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw
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Research interest:
Sporting facilities, Infrastructure, Development, Olympic efforts, Warsaw History
Grégory Quin
PhD
Senior lecturer, University of Lausanne
gregory.quin@unil
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Research interest:
Football, Gymnastics, Ski, Archives, Switzerland history
Keith Rathbone
PhD
Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Research interest:
France, Sport, Vichy regime, Football/Soccer history
Nicola Sbetti
PhD
Tutor, University of Bologna
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Research interest:
Sport and International politics, Sport history, Italy, Contemporary history, Olympic Games, Cortina
Stefan Scholl
PhD
Head of Project, University of Mannheim
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Research interest:
Council of Europe, Europeanization, Sport for all, Biopolitics, Sports Knowledge
Amanda Shuman
PhD
Researcher and Lecturer, University of Freiburg (Germany)
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Research interest:
History, China, Socialist sport, Cold War, Sports Diplomacy, Transnational sport
Daniele Serapiglia
PhD
Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Research interest:
History, Football, Volleyball, Gender, Transnational influences
Juan Antonio Simon
PhD
Professor, Universidad Europea - Madrid
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Research interest:
Sport Diplomacy, Football, Spain, Olympic History, Oral History
Daniel Svensson
PhD
Associate senior lecturer
Malmö University
Research interest:
History, Ski, Cross-country skiing, Sweden, Europe
Quentin Tonnerre
PhD
Head of Project (Observatoire du sport populaire)
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Research interest:
Sports Diplomacy, History, Switzerland, Olympic Studies
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Philippe Vonnard
PhD
SNSF Senior lecturer, University of Freiburg (Switzerland)
Research interest:
History, European integration studies, Sports Organizations, Leisure and Tourism, Switzerland, Environment
Yacov Zohn
PhD candidate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interest:
Soviet Union (Ukraine, Georgia, Russia), Sport, Political History, Nationalism, Localism