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Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Announces Early Career Article Award Winners
May 16 2022
The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest academic quality in the multidisciplinary field of Mexican studies for the origi
Fighting Inside and Outside of the Ring: How Luchadoras Challenged Gender Norms in 1950s Mexico
Apr 26 2021
Marjolein Van Bavel's "Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s"—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to read for free for a limited time— examines the emergence of the ban on women wrestlers
Watch: Samantha Sheppard previews her book Sporting Blackness
Mar 17 2021
This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen."In her fusion of theories of race and
A Conversation with Samantha Sheppard, author of Sporting Blackness
Dec 23 2020
This interview was originally published in Film Quarterly. Sam Sheppard is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Medi
How Hockey Jerseys Became Standard Wear for Fans
Dec 18 2020
By Bruce Berglund, author of The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of SportsWhen the National Hockey League starts its COVID-delayed season in January, all thirty-one teams will have eye-catching new jerseys. The NHL’s supplier of on-ice uniforms, Adidas, designed a new “Re