Mark S. Dyreson
Ph.D., 1989, History, University of Arizona
Associate Professor of Kinesiology
Contact Information
275C Recreation Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-3683
Fax: (814) 865-1275
mxd52@psu.edu
Research Interests
History of sport and culture in the modern world with particular emphasis on the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Specific research concentrates on the role of sport in the creation of modern societies.
Selected Publications
Mark Dyreson.Making the American Team: Sport, Culture and the Olympic Experience. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Mark Dyreson. Crafting Patriotism: America at the Olympic Games. London: Routledge, 2008.
Mark Dyreson. “Mapping an Empire of Baseball: American Visions of National Pastimes and Global Influence, 1919-1941.” The winner of the nationwide Webb-Smith historical essay contest, published in Baseball in America and America in Baseball. Donald Kyle and Robert R. Fairbanks, editors, pp. 143-188. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.