Research, Publications, & Presentations

Research

My research focuses on the intersections between sport and social politics in the twentieth century. My work broadly looks at the relationships between politics and sport and physical culture. I currently have three specific research projects. 1) I am working on a project about the various ways that track and field athlete Jesse Owens has appeared in popular culture; 2) in considering the relationships between politics and professional American football, I am working on a manuscript that details how athletes engaged social movements from the 1950s through the 1970s; and 3) I am editing an anthology on sport in Cleveland, OH, and am interested in the broad cultural relationships between sport and the urban United States. All three of these projects seek to demonstrate the cultural influence of sport and physical cultures on the broader society.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Andrew D. Linden and Lindsay Pieper. "An Olympian on Display: Museums and the Commemoration of Jesse Owens." Journal of Olympic Studies 3, no. 1 (2022): 28-48.
Andrew D. Linden and Alison M. Wrynn. "Looking at the Past, Thinking about the Future: The Journal of Sport History." Journal of Sport History 48, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 414-424.
Taylor, Katie, Andrew D. Linden, and Dunja Antunovic. “‘From Beach Nymph to Gridiron Amazon’: Media Coverage of Women in American Football, 1934-1979.” Communication & Sport 9, no. 3 (2021): 458-475.
Pieper, Lindsay and Andrew D. Linden. “Race but Not Racism: The Jesse Owens Story and Race.” International Journal of the History of Sport 37, no. 10 (2020): 853-871.
Antunovic, Dunja, and Andrew D. Linden. “Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 44, no. 6 (2020): 534-549.
Berg, Adam, Andrew D. Linden, and Jaime Schultz. “Manning Up: Modern Manhood, Rudimentary Pugilistic Capital, and Esquire Network’s White Collar Brawlers.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 44, no. 1 (February 2020): 70-92.
Linden, Andrew D. and Lindsay Parks Pieper. "Writing Sport Online: An Analysis of the Pitfalls and Potential of Academic Blogging." Journal of Sport History 44, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 257-274.
Linden, Andrew D. "Tempering the Dichotomous Flame: Social History, Cultural History, and Postmodernism(s) in the Journal of Sport History, 1974-2014." Journal of Sport History 43, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 66-82.
Linden, Andrew D. “Blue-Collar Identity and the ‘Culture of Losing’: Cleveland and the ‘Save Our Browns’ Campaign.” Journal of Sport History 42, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 340-360.
Linden, Andrew D. “Revolution on the American Gridiron: Gender, Contested Space, and Women’s Football in the 1970s.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 32, no. 18 (December 2015):2171-2190.
Antunovic, Dunja and Andrew D. Linden. “Disrupting Dominant Discourses: #HERESPROOF of Interest in Women’s Sports.” Feminist Media Studies 15, no. 1 (2015): 157-159.

Schultz, Jaime, W. Larry Kenney, and Andrew D. Linden. "Heat-Related Deaths in American Football: An Interdisciplinary Approach." Sport History Review 45, no. 2 (November 2014): 123-144.

Schultz, Jaime and Andrew D. Linden. "From Ladies Days to Women's Initiatives: National Pastimes and Distaff Consumption." The International Journal of the History of Sport 31, nos. 1-2 (January-February 2014): 156-180.

Schultz, Jaime, Dunja Antunovic, Adam Berg, Justine Kaempfer, Andrew D. Linden, Thomas Rorke, Colleen English, and Mark Dyreson. “A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes: Fads and Flashes-in-the-Pan, Nationwide and Regional Pastimes, the Pastimes of Other Nations, and Pan-National Pastimes.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 31, nos. 1-2 (January-February 2014): 250-272.

Linden, Andrew D. “Looking at Losing: Presentations of the Media’s Narrative of the Cleveland Browns’ Relocation.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 29, no. 18 (December 2012): 2575-2598.

Book Chapters

Antunovic, Dunja, Taylor, Katie, Watt, Macauley, and Andrew D. Linden. "‘Getting Noticed, Respected, and Supported’: Mediated (In)Visibilities of Women's American Football in the United States," Bowes, A. and Culvin, A. (Ed.) The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2021, 123-139.
Linden, Andrew D. and Alison Wrynn. “The Journal of Sport History.” In Routledge Companion to Sports History. Eds. M.G. Phillips, D. Booth, and C. Adams. (in press)
Linden, Andrew D. “History of Sport and Physical Activity.” In Foundations of Kinesiology, second edition. Eds. C. Oglesby, K. Henige, D. McLaughlin, and B. Stillwell. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2022: 193-218.
Linden, Andrew D. “Remembering and Reliving ‘The Drive’ in Cleveland and Denver.” In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles: The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports. Ed. Steven Gietschier. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017, 180-188.
Schultz, Jaime and Andrew D. Linden. “From Ladies Days to Women’s Initiatives: National Pastimes and Distaff Consumption.” In American National Pastimes—A History. Eds. Mark Dyreson and Jaime Schultz. London: Routledge, 2015, 156-180.
Schultz, Jaime, Dunja Antunovic, Adam Berg, Justine Kaempfer, Andrew D. Linden, Thomas Rorke, Colleen English, and Mark Dyreson. “A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes: Fads and Flashes-in-the-Pan, Nationwide and Regional Pastimes, the Pastimes of Other Nations, and Pan-National Pastimes.” In American National Pastimes—A History. Eds. Mark Dyreson and Jaime Schultz. London: Routledge, 2015, 250-272.

Film Reviews

Linden, Andrew D. Review of LT: The Life & Times by Showtime Sports (2013). Journal of Sport History 42, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 230-231.

Book Reviews

Linden, Andrew D. Review of Sport History in the Digital Era. Edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips. Sport History Review 47, no 1 (2016): 220.
Linden, Andrew D. and Adam Berg. Review of Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America by Shelley McKenzie. Journal of Sport History 42, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 138-139.
Linden, Andrew D. Review of Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment by David M. Carter, Journal of Sport History 40, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 334-335.
Linden, Andrew D. Review of Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States by Andrei S. Markovits and Emily K. Albertson, Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media Politics 16, no. 9 (2013): 1213-1216.

Other Publications

Linden, Andrew D. "Looking for Politics at the Super Bowl? Watch Justin Timberlake’s Performance." Washington Post, Made by History. (February 4, 2018).
Linden, Andrew D. “Live in the NFL Has Always Been Harder for Outspoken Liberals.” Washington Post, Made by History. (September 7, 2017).
Linden, Andrew D. “Ernie Davis.” In American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Ed. by Murry Nelson (2013).
Linden, Andrew D. “Pro Football Hall of Fame.” In American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Ed. by Murry Nelson (2013).
Linden, Andrew D. “Goalposts: Tackling the Last Bastion of Male Monopoly.” On the Issues Magazine, Spring, 2012.

Invited/Workshop Presentations

Linden, Andrew D. “Beyond Desegregation: From Breaking Barriers to Struggles for Social Justice in the Pro Gridiron Game, 1946-2018” at the Sport Studies Seminar, October 25, 2018. Department of Kinesiology, California State University, Northridge.
Linden, Andrew D. and Lindsay Parks Pieper. “Transdisciplinarity and the Study of Sport in the Digital Age” at the Doing Sport History in the Digital Present Workshop, May 25-26, 2016. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “Sport in Nineteenth Century America: The Rise of Football’s Popularity” at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Educational Seminar. December 27, 2012. Canton, Ohio, United States.
Schultz, Jaime and Andrew D. Linden, “From Ladies Days to Women’s Initiatives: National Pastimes and Distaff Consumption” at The Lives (And Deaths) Of American National Pastimes. October, 2012. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.

Conference Presentations

Linden, Andrew D. “Pro Football Stories: Critical Readings of Four NFL Stars’ Autobiographies,” at the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport Conference. July 2019. Madrid, Spain.
Linden, Andrew D. and Lindsay Parks Pieper. “Public Memories of the “Buckeye Bullet” in The Jesse Owens Story and Race,” at the Sport Literature Association Conference. June 2019. Limoges, France.
Linden, Andrew D. “The “Green Machine” of the Rust Belt: The Toledo Troopers and the 1970s National Women’s Football League,” at the International Football History Conference. June 2019. Manchester, United Kingdom.
Linden, Andrew D. “‘Not a Marxist Class Struggle’: Cultural Politics of Professional Football’s Players Unions, 1966-1970,” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May 2019. Boise, Idaho, USA.
Linden, Andrew D. “Dominant Narratives of Pro Football’s 1960s: A Critical Reading of Paul Hornung’s Football and the Single Man,” at the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research Conference. March 2019. Fullerton, California, USA.
Linden, Andrew D. “Super Bowl Halftime Shows and the Cultural Politics of National Identity, 1967-2018,” at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference. November 2018. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Linden, Andrew D. “Beyond Desegregation: The Civil Rights Movement and Professional Football, 1955-1967,” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May 2018. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Linden, Andrew D. “Revolution? Women, Social Movements, and American Professional Football, 1972-2017,” at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference. November 2017. Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Linden, Andrew D. “‘When The Revolution Comes’: Professional Football, The New Left, and the Counterculture, 1963-1970,” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May 2017. Fullerton, California, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “The Super Bowl and American Social Politics, 1967-2016” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May, 2016. Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. "Tempering the Dichotomous Flame: Social History, Cultural History, and Postmodernism(s) in the Journal of Sport History, 1974-2014," at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May 2015. Miami, Florida, United States.

Organizer of "Academic Identities, Historiography, and Methodologies: Responses to the 2014 Journal of American History's 'State of the Field: Sports in American History'"" Panel

Linden, Andrew D., Adam Berg, and Jaime Schultz. “Like A Punch To The Face: Manliness, Social Class, and Esquire Network’s White Collar Brawlers” at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference. November, 2014. Portland, Oregon, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. "Social Politics on the American Gridiron: Gender, Contested Space, and Women's Football in the 1970s" at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. June, 2014. Glenwood Springs, Colorado. United States.

Organizer of "American Football in the Twentieth Century" Panel

Linden, Andrew D. “Women, Contested Space, and American Football in the 1970s” at the Penn State Women’s Studies Graduate Organization’s Annual Conference. April, 2014. University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “Gridiron Masculinity in 1970s Film” at the Tri-University Conference for the Trans/Disciplinary Study of Sport. March, 2014. London, Ontario, Canada.
Linden, Andrew D. "Loyalty is a Two-Way Street: Allegiance and Franchise Relocation in North American Professional Sport" at the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport Conference. September, 2013. Fullerton, California, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “Rustbelt Renaissance and Civic Identity: Cleveland and the ‘Save Our Browns’ Campaign” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May, 2013. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Linden, Andrew D. "'It Is Not Fair To Say That We Are Unionizing': Jack Kemp and Labor Conservatism, 1966-1970" at the Tri-University Conference for the Trans/Disciplinary Study of Sport. March, 2013. University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “The Lingerie Football League: From the Subordination to the Perversion of Women” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference. October, 2012. Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Panel Chair, "The Mediation of the Female Athlete in Popular Culture"

Linden, Andrew D. “Images and Meanings of Sports Entrepreneurship: The Polarization of Art Modell’s Representation” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. June, 2012. Berkeley, California, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “‘We’re Throwing Every Pot and Pan at the Issue’: Cleveland’s Civic Activism and the ‘Save Our Browns’ Campaign” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference. October, 2011. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “Looking at Losing: Presentations of the Media’s Narrative of the Cleveland Browns’ Relocation” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May, 2011. Austin, Texas, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. and Melvin L. Adelman. “The Business of Professional Football: The Profitability of National Football League Clubs in 1951 and 1952” at the North American Society for Sport History Conference. May, 2010. Orlando, Florida, United States.
Linden, Andrew D. “Gay Olympiad: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Athletes at the Modern Olympics” at the 15th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. May, 2010. Columbus, Ohio, United States.