ICOS Graduates

PhD Dissertation Titles

• 2011: Toby C. Rider
  "The Olympic Games and the Secret Cold War: The U.S. Government and the Propaganda Campaign Against Communist Sport, 1950-1960."

• 2009: Sarah Teetzel
  "A Philosophical Analysis of Olympic Eligibility, Values, and Auxiliary Rules."

• 2006: Christine M. O'Bonsawin
  "Spectacles, Policy, and Social Memory: Images of Canadian Indians at World's Fairs and Olympic Games."

• 2004: Ken Kirkwood
  "Out of the Olympic Closet: Abandoning Prohibitions on Doping in Favour of a Harm Reduction Approach."

• 2000: Scott Martyn
  "The Struggle for Financial Autonomy: The IOC and the Historical Emergence of Corporate Sponsorship, 1896-2000."

• 1998: Gordon MacDonald
  "Regime Creation, Maintenance, and Change: A History of Relations Between the International Olympic Committee and International Sports Federations, 1894-1968."

• 1997: Douglas Brown
  "Theories of Beauty and Modern Sport: Pierre De Coubertin's Aesthetic Imperative for the Modern Olympic Movement, 1894-1914."

Master's Thesis Titles

• 2009: Geoffrey Bardwell
  "Sex Gender Ideology and the Politics of Power/Resistance: On Althusser and Focault Toward an Investigation of Sex Testing in the Olympics."

• 2004: Ian Watts
  "Igniting The Nation: Print Media Representations of Aboriginality in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games."

• 2004: Kristina Kolesnyk
  "Globalization and Sport: Athletic Talent Migration to Canada."

• 2003: Anthony G. Church
  "The Sacred Cow: Calgary and The XV Olympic Winter Games."

• 2002: Christine O'Bonsawin
  "Failed Test: Aboriginal Sport Policy and the Olympian Firth Sisters."

• 2001: Amanda Schweinbenz
  "All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Run: Women's Uniforms and Clothing in The Olympic Games, 1900-1932."

• 2000: Guy Schultz
  "The I.A.A.F. and the I.O.C.: Their Relationship and Its Impact on Women's Participation in Track and Field at the Olympic Games, 1912-1932."