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Dain TePoel

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Dain TePoel
Title(s)
Graduate Program Coordinator, M.S. in Sport Management
Department
Education

018, Ph.D., University of Iowa, American Studies (Sport Studies)

2012, M.A., Ohio State University, Sport Humanities

2005, B.A., Communication, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

Contact Information

Biography

In 2018, TePoel earned his Ph.D. in American Studies (Sport Studies) from the University of Iowa. He graduated from Ohio State University in 2012 with an M.A. in Sport Humanities. TePoel's research examines the intersections of sport with media, culture, the environment, and social movements. His work has appeared in Sport in Society, Journal of Sport History, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Sport History Review, and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. He is currently the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Sport History.

Courses Most Commonly Taught  

  • Problems in Sport Administration
  • Sport Media Communications Relations
  • Sport Marketing Management
  • Sport in American Culture

Professional Publications

  • TePoel, Dain and Eileen Narcotta-Welp. "The White Moderate, Sport and Black Lives Matter: Echoes from Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' at the University of Iowa." Sport in Society (2020).
  • Martorell, Gerard, James Mattern, Boris Morozov, John Nauright, Peter Campbell, and Dain TePoel. "Leveraging International Partnerships for the Development of International Sport Management Programs." Sport in Society (2020).
  • Narcotta-Welp, Eileen an Dain TePoel. "Tuesday's with Susan: Reflections on the Lessons and Legacy of Birrellian Approaches to Sport and Film." Journal of  Sport History (forthcoming).
  • TePoel, Dain. "Meaning by Doing: The Making of Endurance Activism on the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament." Sport History Review 51.2 (2020): 164-185.
  • Endurance Activism: Transcontinental Walking, the Great Peace March and the Politics of Movement Culture. PhD diss., University of Iowa (2018).
  • Digital Sport History, with Costs: An Ecocentric Critique. Journal of Sport History 44.2 (2017): 350-366.
  • 'We Need to Get the Good Old USA on Board’: The 2009 World Baseball Classic, Corporate Nationalism, and Constructions of ‘American’ Identity.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 24.1/2 (2015-2016): 116-132.
  • Mary Garber’s Coverage of Black Sports in the United States Segregated South, 1944-1964. International Journal of the History of Sport 31.13 (2014): 1598-1616.
  • Pastime or Waste of Time? Narratives in the Media Surrounding the 2006 World Baseball Classic. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 22.1 (2013): 52-77.
  • Master Mick and Redneck Roger: Framing Analysis of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris’ Homerun Chase in 1961. Iowa Journal of Communication 37.2 (2005): 139-154.