Olympic and Paralympic Resources
Olympic-related Scholarships and Funding Opportunities
Potential Funding Sources
- North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) - Graduate Student Essay Award
- North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) - Graduate Student Conference Travel Award
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) - Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
- North American Society for Sport Sociology (NASSS) - Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award
- International Sociology of Sport Assocation (ISSA) - Graduate Paper Award
Olympic and Paralympic Studies Centres
- IOC Olympic Studies Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Académie Nationale Olympique, France
- Olympic Studies Centre, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
- Centre for Olympic Studies and Research, Loughborough, UK
- Centre for Olympic Research and Education, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- The Netherlands Olympic Study Network, The Netherlands
- New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Centre d’Estudis Olímpics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Centre for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research, California State University-Fullerton, USA
Archival Sources
Internet Archive
A search for olympic- and paralympic themes related documents at the Internet Archive yields over 4,000 entries.
IOC Historical Archives
The holdings of the IOC Historical Archives include publications produced by the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games (incl. Official Reports) and the bid cities applying to host the Olympic Games (candidature files), in addition to Games-time publications of International Sports Federations and National Olympic Committees
British National Archives Olympic and Paralympic Records
The National Archives holds a range of records on the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad, from 1896 to the present. The records are now available online.
