BarneyBob Barney

BS, MS, PhD (New Mexico)

Professor Emeritus
School of Kinesiology

Office: Room 337 - Arthur and Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 82340

rkbarney@uwo.ca



Research Interests

  • History of the Modern Olympic Games
  • History of Olympic Commercialism
  • Canadian "nation-bulding" through the Olympic Games

Research Affiliations

  • International Centre for Olympic Studies
  • North American Society for Sport History

Teaching Areas

  • History of American Sport
  • Rethinking the Olympics
  • Sport, Exercise, and the Body in Western Culture

Graduate Student Supervision

  • Master's
  • PhD
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