Gregory Kaliss, Ph.D.
Education
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
Research Interests
- 20th Century United States
- Sports, Race and Gender in American Life
- Sports and Social Activism
- Public Parks and American Democracy
Recent Publications
- Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change (forthcoming, 2023, University of Illinois Press)
- Men’s College Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality: Five Pioneer Stories of Black Manliness, White Citizenship, and American Democracy (Temple University Press, 2012; paperback edition, 2014)
- Co-Editor, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume 9: The Last Great Projects, 1890-1895 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
- “’Never Go Back’: Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers,” in LA Sports: Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels (University of Arkansas Press, 2018)
- “Ali-Frazier 1: Black Gladiators, White Promoters, and the Economics of Big-Time Boxing,” International Journal of the History of Sport (August 2017)