Presentations and Publications
Scholarly
Presentations
Title:
“Nurturing the Community: Female Physicians and the Emerging
Health Professions, 1890-1920”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: American Association of Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance
Place: Portland, Oregon
Date: March 1995
Title: "The Message is in the Movement: Cross-Cultural Meanings in
Physical Activity"
Research Colloquium
Sponsor: Department of Kinesiology
Place: San Francisco State
University
Date: March 1996.
Title: "Health and Physical Culture"
Session Commentator
Conference: North American Society
for Sport History
Place: Auburn, Alabama
Date: June 1996
Title: "Sporting an Urban Identity: Physical Activity Among
Immigrant
Cultures"
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society
for the Sociology of Sport
Place: Birmingham, Alabama
Date: November 1996.
Title: "Playing Urban Sport, or, Becoming More or Less American"
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: Sport in the City:
Cultural, Economic, and Political
Considerations.
An International Symposium
Place: Memphis, Tennessee
Date: November 1996.
Title: Conference: Ethics and Sport Conference
Symposium: Invited speaker
Place: University of California
Date: Berkeley, May 1997.
Title:
“Current Issues in the Sociology of Sport,” and “Cultural Identity
and
Participation in Physical Activity”
Symposium: Invited speaker
Conference: Seminar and Educational Tour of the
Korean National
University of
Physical Education
Place: Berkeley,
California
Date: July 21-August
3, 1997
Title:
“The Message is in the Movement: Physical Activity and the
Transmission of
Cultural Values”
Colloquium presented to the Department of Kinesiology, San Francisco
State University
Date: October 1997. (non-juried)
Title:
“Unraveling Multiple Identities: Capturing the Subject in Cultural
Transition”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Place:
Toronto, Canada
Date: November 1997
Title:
"Chinatown Journal: Crossing Cultural Boundaries"
Poster Presentation: Kinesiology Student Association Human Movement
Exposition,
Department of Kinesiology
Place: San Francisco
State University
Date: May 1998. (non-juried)
Title:
"Preservation, Transformation and the Construction of Identity:
The Role of
Sport
in the Chinese American Community, 1895-1965"
Session Coordinator: juried
Conference: North American Society for Sport History
Place: Windsor, Ontario,
Canada
Date: May 1998.
Title:
"Birdies, Basketballs, and the Bolero: Re-creating Chinese Cultural
Identity Through Sport and Recreation in
San Francisco's Chinatown,
1895 to
World War II"
Research Presentation: juried
Conference:
North American Society for Sport History
Date: May 1998
Place: Windsor, Ontario,
Canada.
Title: “From
Birdies to the Bolero: Cultural Connection in San Francisco’s
Chinatown”
Research Presentation: juried, video documentary
Conference: North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Place: Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: November, 1998.
Title: “From
Birdies to the Bolero: Cultural Connection in San Francisco’s
Chinatown”
Research Presentation: juried, video documentary
Conference: Joint meeting between the Society for Cross-Cultural
Research
and the Association for the Study of Play
Place: Santa Fe, New
Mexico
Date: February 1999.
Title:
“Sporting Practices and Perspectives of Female High School Athletes
of Various
Ethnic Groups in One Urban Context”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Place: Toronto, Canada
Date: November 1999.
Title: “From
Birdies to the Bolero: Cultural Connection in San Francisco’s
Chinatown”
Research Presentation: juried, video documentary
Conference: North American Society for Sport History
Place: Banff, Calgary, Canada
Date: May 2000.
Title: “Critical Periods: Sport
Perspectives and Participation of Urban Junior
and Senior High School
Girls”
Research
Presentation: juried
Conference:
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Place:
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Date:
November 2000.
Title: “Critical Periods: Sport
Perspectives and Experiences of Junior and
Senior High School Girls
in an Urban Setting”
Research
Presentation: Invited speaker
Conference:
Sport and Diversity in America, breakout group on “Gender
and Sport”
Place:
California State University, Sacramento
Date: April
2001
Title: “Failing in Fitness: The
Crises Behind the Establishment of the
President’s Council
on Physical Fitness”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society
for Sport History
Place: Western Ontario, Canada
Date: May 2001.
Title:
“Messages in the Movement: Physical Culture in the New China”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: Western
College Physical Education Society
Place: Reno, Nevada
Date: October 2001.
Title:
“Cross-Cultural Meanings in Exercise and Fitness”
Symposium: Invited speaker
Conference: Southwest
American College of Sports Medicine
Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
Date: November, 2001.
Title: “GirlSpeak: Adolescent
Females Talk About Sport”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society
for the Sociology of Sport
Place: San Antonio, Texas
Date: November 2001.
Title: “Living History: Connecting
the Self to the Past”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and
Dance,
Research Consortium, History Academy Panel
Place:
San Diego, California
Date:
April 2002.
Title: “China Leaps Forward:
Ideology and Authority in the Promotion
of Mass Physical Culture”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society
for Sport History
Place: French Lick, Indiana
Date: May 2002.
Title: “Acting Like Girls:
Adolescent Females Internalize an Athletic Identity”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: North American Society
for the Sociology of Sport
Place: Indianapolis, Indiana
Date: November 2002.
Title: “Girls in Sport: Part I, Part
II”
Organizer: Two research sessions
Conference: North American Society
for the Sociology of Sport
Place: Indianapolis, Indiana
Date: November 2002.
Title: “Sport as a Vehicle for
Social Transformation”
Conference Co-Organizer:
Research Group for Sport, Education, and
Physical Culture.
Place: San Francisco State
University
Date: April 2003
Title: “Sport as a Vehicle for
Social Transformation”
Research Presentation
Place: San Francisco State
University
Date: April 2003
Title: “A
Weighty Situation: Physical Educators and the Surveillance
of Body Size in late 19th Century America”
Research Presentation: juried
Conference: International Society for the History of Sport and
Physical
Education
Place: Urbino, Italy
Date: July 2003
Publications
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Zieff, Susan
G. "Book Review,"
Berryman, Jack. Out of Many, One: A History of the
American College of Sports Medicine,
Sport History Review (November 1996).
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Zieff, Susan
G. “Book Review,”
History of American Physical Education and Sport By Paula D. Welch, Sport
History Review, 28:2 (November 1997).
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Zieff, Susan.
(1998) script writer, "Healing Through Horses," segment for KTVU-TV Family to
Family series, aired April 1998.
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Zieff, Susan.
(1998) “From Birdies to the Bolero: Cultural Connection in
San Francisco’s
Chinatown,” a collaborative, documentary film.
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Barnes,
Barbara; Zieff, Susan; and Anderson, David (1999). "Racial Difference and
Social Meanings: A Review of Comparative Motor Development Research Between
"Black" and "White" Infants & Children, c.1931-1992." Quest, 51,
328-345.
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Zieff, Susan
G. (1999) “Sociology of
Sport Syllabi.” In J. Steele (Eds.), The Sociology of Sport: Syllabi and
Instructional Materials. American Sociological Association.
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Solicited
reviewer for journal, Football Studies, “An Attempt to Create Space: The
Fate of Soccer in American Colleges, 1869-1906,” July 1999.
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Zieff, Susan.
(2000) "From Badminton to the Bolero: Physical Recreations in
San Francisco's
Chinatown, 1895-World War II," Journal of Sport History 27 (1), 1-30.
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Zieff, Susan.
(2000) Footbinding and the Emancipation of Women. Book review. The
Sports Historian, The Journal of the British Society of Sports History.
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Solicited reviewer, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. Title: “In
their Own Voices: Definitions and Interpretations of Physical Activity Among
African American and American Indian Women.”
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Zieff,
Susan. (2001) “Messages
in the Movement: Physical Culture in the New China.
Western College Physical Education
Society Monograph Series,
11.
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