Professor
301.405.1357
nlstruna@umd.edu
Nancy L. Struna is a full professor in the department
and holds affiliate appointments in Women’s Studies and in History.
Dr. Struna is the recipient of the first annual (2004-05) Lord Baltimore
Research Fellowship from the Maryland Historical Society, to be held
in residence at the MHS as she undertakes research on "The Transformation
of the Ordinary: The Tavern Industry and Culture." Her research and
teaching focus on social and cultural production in the
Atlantic
world
and directly
engage
the
department’s
central intellectual directions, the cultures of ordinary life and cultural
constructions of identity and difference. From her early work in the
social history of labor-leisure relationships and sport, she has moved,
first,
to exploring the making and transformation of the most ordinary of early
American institutions, the tavern. This work draws on county court,
probate,
and land records, in addition to literary sources. It examines changes
in the demography, economy, and geography of taverns, tavernkeepers,
and
patrons; shifting power relations within taverns; the making of popular
culture in the context of the transition to capitalism; and the changing
constructions and significance of taverns in the multiple discourses
of the late colonial and early national U.S. A second and related line
of
inquiry focuses on the body and sexuality in the context of street and
tavern culture(s), beginning with the construction of prostitution in
the colonial and early national periods. Dr. Struna teaches undergraduate
and graduate courses in popular culture; critics of American culture;
American Studies’ history, theory, and method; and the body, sexuality
and society (historic and contemporary).
Degrees:
Ph.D. Sport
History (University of Maryland, 1979)
B.S. American History & Physical Education (University of Wisconsin,
1972)
Publications:
- People of Prowess:
Sport, Leisure and Labor in Early Anglo-America Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1996.
- “The Prostitute, Liberty/Columbia, and the Sportsman: Counter-Identities
and the Body in the Early National U. S.” (forthcoming).
- “Reframing the Direction of Change in Sport History,”
International Journal of Sport History 18 (December 2001):1-15.
- “The Economic and Ideological Grounds for the Gendering of Sport
in Early America,” Stadion 21 (August 2001):1-11.
- “Social History and Sport.” In Jay Coakley and Eric Dunning,
eds., Handbook of Sports Studies. London: Sage Publications,
2000, pp. 187-203.
- “Gender and Sporting Practice in Early America, 1750-1810.”
In Steven W. Pope, ed., The New American Sport History. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1996, pp. 147-72.
- “Sport and the Awareness of Leisure.” In Cary Carson,
Ronald Hoffman, and Peter Albert, eds., Of Consuming Interests:
The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 406-43.
- “The Recreational Experiences of Early American Women.”
In Margaret Costa and Sharon Guthrie, eds., Women in Sport. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1994, pp. 45-62.
- “Dominant and Subordinate Physical Cultures in Early America.”
In Leena Laine, ed., On the Fringes of Sport. Sankt Augustin,
Ger.: Academia Verlag, 1993, pp. 113-32.
- “The Labor-Leisure Relationship in Stuart England and Its American
Colonies,” Magazine of History 7 (Summer 1992):15-18.
- “Sport and Society in Early America,” International
Journal of Sport History 5 (December 1988): 292-311.
- “The Formalizing of Sport and the Formation of an Elite: The
Chesapeake Gentry, 1650-1720s,” Journal of Sport History
13 (Winter 1986): 212-34.
Courses Taught:
Introductory
Seminar: Perspectives on the Past & Theorectical Directions (graduate)
Body,
Sexuality and Society (graduate)
Research Seminar in American Life and Culture (graduate)
Research Seminar in Museum Scholarship (graduate)
Seminar in Popular
Culture (graduate)
Critics of American Culture (undergraduate)
Popular
Culture in America (undergraduate)
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