Faculty
Hoberman, John
Professor
Chair, Department of Germanic Studies
Office: BUR 322
Phone:512-232-6368
hoberman@mail.utexas.edu
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Research interests:
A European cultural and intellectual historian with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race. His books are 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.
Current research:
John Hoberman has recently published "How Fiercely That Gentile Rides!": Jews, Horses and Equestrian Style" in Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship (University of Illinois Press, 2007), and he is continuing his research on racial folklore about Jews. His other current research projects deal with the history of German sportive nationalism and small-country nationalism and identity in Scandinavia and other European societies in an age of globalization.