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John Hoberman
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Professor
Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Contact
E-mail: hoberman@mail.utexas.eduhttp://www.utexas.edu/depts/german/faculty/hoberman.html
Phone: 232-6368
Office: BUR 322
Campus Mail Code: C3300
Interests
European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race.Biography
John Hoberman's books include Sport and Political Ideology (1984), The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986), Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (1992), and Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997). He has published almost a hundred sports commentaries in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel.
