Stacy L. Lorenz

I am currently Vice Dean and a Professor in Physical Education and History at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta. From 2021 to 2023, I served as Associate Dean (Academic) at Augustana. I teach in the areas of sport history, sociocultural aspects of sport and physical activity, sport and social issues, and sport and popular culture.

My research interests include newspaper coverage of sport, media experiences of sport, sport and local and national identities, violence and masculinity, race and sport, and hockey and Canadian culture. I am the author of Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey: Constructing a Canadian Hockey World, 1896-1907 (Routledge, 2017). I have written several book chapters, including a chapter on violence in a widely used sport sociology textbook and a chapter on the sports media in a recent Canadian sport history textbook. I have published articles in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, Journal of Sport History, Sport History Review, Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Canadian Historical Review. I am also a frequent media commentator on issues related to sport, society, and culture.

I hold degrees in History from Augustana University College (BA), The University of Western Ontario (MA), and the University of Alberta (PhD). I have been a recipient of the North American Society for Sport History Graduate Essay Prize, the Coach of the Year award for the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (North Division) in Men’s Basketball, and the University of Alberta’s Remote Teaching Award.