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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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Zieff, Susan G. and Maria Veri (eds.) Proceedings of the First Annual Conference: Sport
as a Vehicle for Social Transformation. Research Group for Sport, Education, and Physical Culture, 2003.
 

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Zieff, Susan. (2004) “GirlSpeak: Adolescent Females Talk About Sport.” In L. K. Fuller (Ed.) Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Teaming Up Gender with the Language of Sport, ed. Linda K. Fuller, Haworth Press (in press).
 

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Zieff, Susan. (2004) “Edith McGuire,” “Madeline Manning,” “Vivian Stringer.” Historical Dictionary of African Americans in Sport. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Publishing.
 

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Zieff, Susan G. (2004). Sport Ethnography. Book review. International Journal of Sport History. (in press).
 

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Zieff, Susan. (2004). Sport in Latin American Society: Past and Present. Book review. Journal of African American Men. (forthcoming).
 

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Zieff, Susan. (2004) “Critical Periods: Sport Perspectives and Participation of Urban Junior and Senior High School Girls.” Submitted to Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.
 

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Zieff, Susan G. " The Messages are in the Movement: Cross-Cultural Meanings in Physical Activity," manuscript in progress.

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