Brenda Elsey

Brenda Elsey is an American historian commonly known for researching about topics of History of Latin America such as politics,[1] football[2][3] or gender roles.[4][1][5] Since 2008, she has been the co-director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at Hofstra University. Similarly, she directed there the Women’s Studies program from 2009 to 2013.

Brenda Elsey
Personal details
BornUnited States
Alma mater
OccupationResearcher and Scholar
ProfessionHistorian

She won the Stessin Prize for the best faculty publication at Hofstra. On the other hand, she has written on sport and social justice for popular publications like «The New Republic», «The Allrounder» or «Sport's Illustrated». Likewise, alongside scholars like Shireen Ahmed, she co-hosts the weekly podcast, Burn It All Down, the first feminist sports podcast to analyze sports culture from an intersectional feminist lens.[6]

Among her researchings, Elsey has stood out to study 20th-Chilean politics from the football civic associations. Her first book about it was Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile (2011), which temporality covers from 1893 to 1973 Pinochet's coup.

Works

Books
  • Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile. University of Texas; 2011.
  • Bad Ambassadors: A History of the Pan-American Games of the 1950s, International Journal of Sport History.
  • As the World is My Witness: Popular Culture and the Chilean Solidarity Movement, 1974−1987, University of Wisconsin Press in Topographies of Transnationalism; 2013.
  • Breaking the Machine: The Politics of South American Football, University of California Press in Global Latin America; 2016.
  • Football and the boundaries of History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 466 pages
  • Futbolera: Historia de la mujer y el deporte en América Latina. Co-produced with Joshua Nadel; 2019.

Articles
  • Sport, Gender, and Politics in Latin America, Oxford University’s Sport in History; 2014
  • Football at the “end” of the World: the 1962 World Cup in Chile, in Kay Schiller and Stefan Rinke’s Histories of the World Cup; Göttingen, Wallstein, 2014.

References
  1. "Experts Profile". Hofstra University. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. "Brenda Elsey y Joshua Nadel, autoras de "Futbolera. Una historia de la mujer y el deporte en América Latina"". Nodal.am. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. Barros, Juan Pablo (18 October 2009). "Brenda Elsey, historiadora gringa del fútbol chileno: La república amateur". The Clinic. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. "Historiadora del fútbol femenino: Es importante que Chile esté en una plataforma como el Mundial". Radio Cooperativa. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  5. "Imagen masculina de Alexis Sánchez es hecha añicos por historiadora norteamericana". El Mostrador. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. Bruton, Michelle (2017-07-03). "Burn It All Down: The Feminist Sports Podcast You Need to Download". OZY. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
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