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Susan Brownell's Olympic Essays
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Susan Brownell |
Susan Brownell is professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. In 2007-2008 she is a Fulbright Senior Researcher carrying out research on “The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: ‘One World, One Dream’?” She is affiliated with the Olympic Studies Centre at the Beijing Sport University.
Brownell was a nationally-ranked athlete in the U.S. in the heptathlon, and represented the U.S. five times in international competitions. While studying Chinese at Beijing University she won a gold medal in the heptathlon in the 1986 Chinese National College Games. She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sport in the Moral Order of the People’s Republic (1995) and Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (2008).
By Susan Brownell
Part I: Coming-Out Parties: The 1904 St. Louis Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Part II: Olympic Volunteers in the U.S. and China