Dr. Eikleberry's research and teaching intersect at sport studies and sport history and focus on the structures and ideologies that influence access and experiences in sport and physical activity settings.
Professor | Assistant Chair
Sarah Eikleberry, PhD
Contact Us
Hayes Hall 224
563-333-6238
EikleberrySarahJ@sau.edu
Education and Training
- PhD, MS, University of Iowa, Health and Sport Studies
- University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Sport Studies Institute, International Summer School
- BA, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois; Health and Physical Education
- AA, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois; Liberal Arts
Recent Publications
- Eikleberry, SJ. (2019). "Imagining Football Fandom in the United States: The Home of the Free or Another Example of Manufactured Belonging?" in Gerald R. Gems and Gertrude Pfister Eds. Touchdown: An American Obsession (Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2019): 131-146.
- Eikleberry, SJ. (2018). "Rearing Race Relations at the Des Moines Young Women's Christian Association, 1918-1948." Annals of Iowa 77(2018): 290-329.
- Eikleberry, S.J. (2017). John M. Shippen Jr.: Testing the Front Nine of American Golf. In Gems, G. R. (Ed.), Before Jackie Robinson: The transcendant role of Black sporting pioneers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska.
- Eikleberry, S.J. (2014). "More than Milk and Cookies: Revisiting the College Play Day," Journal of Sport History. 42 (2014):467-486.
- Eikleberry, S. J. (2012). [Review of the book Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth Century America]. Journal of Sport History. Volume 41, Number 1, Spring 2014. pp. 186-187.
- Eikleberry, S.J. (2011). A "chief" year for the "Iowa braves": Native American (mis)appropriation at the University of Iowa and the brief gridiron career of W. Mayes McLain. The Annals of Iowa, 70(2), 111-113.
- Eikleberry, S. J. (2008). [Review of the book Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America]. Journal of Sport History. 34 (2008): 186-187.