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With the 2025 NCAA Football National Championship game near, "Tacking the Everyday" author Tracie Canada talks about her new book and her unique perspective on college football.

The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest academic quality in the multidisciplinary field of Mexican studies for the origi

Marjolein Van Bavel's "Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s"—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to read for free for a limited time— examines the emergence of the ban on women wrestlers

This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen."In her fusion of theories of race and

This interview was originally published in Film Quarterly. Sam Sheppard is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Medi

By Bruce Berglund, author of The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of SportsWhen the National Hockey League starts its COVID-delayed season in January, all thirty-one teams will have eye-catching new jerseys. The NHL’s supplier of on-ice uniforms, Adidas, designed a new “Re