Lincoln Allison is Reader in Politics and International Studies and Director of the Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport in Society at the University of Warwick. He was educated at Oxford University. He edited The Politics of Sport (1986), The Changing Politics of Sport (1993) and Taking Sport Seriously (1998), and is the author of other books and articles. His singly authored book Amateurism in Sport has gone to press with the publisher Frank Cass.

David L. Andrews is an assistant professor of sport and leisure studies at the University of Memphis, and a senior visiting research fellow at De Montfort University. He received a PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He is an assistant editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, as well as being a member of the editorial board of the Sociology of Sport Journal, International Sports Studies and Football Studies.

Joseph L. Arbena is a Professor of History at Clemson University, where he has taught since 1965. He holds degrees in Latin American history and culture from the George Washington University (1961) and the University of Virginia (1970). He has compiled two annotated bibliographies of sports in Latin America (Greenwood Press, 1989 and 1999), edited a collection of essays on Latin American sports, and published some thirty articles on sports topics. He also served as editor of the Journal of Sport History (19936). Currently his research focuses on sport and national identity in Latin America.

John Bale is Professor of Sports Geography at Keele University, UK. He received his degrees from the University of London. During the past two decades he has pioneered the geographical study of sports and has lectured in universities in North America, Australia and Europe. His books include Sport, Space and the City (1993), Landscapes of Modern Sport (1994), and Kenyan Running: Movement Culture, Geography and Global Change (1996, co-authored with Joe Sang).

Susan Birrell is Chair of the Department of Health, Leisure, and Sport Studies at the University of Iowa and is affiliated with both the American Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program. She is also co-editor, with Cheryl Cole, of Women, Sport and Culture (1994). Her latest book, Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation, co-edited with Mary McDonald, is to be published by Northeastern University Press (2000). Her current research focuses on the cultural meanings of Mt Everest.

Kendall Blanchard is President and Professor of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College in Colorado. He received a PhD in anthropology from Southern Methodist University in 1971. He is a past president of the Association for the [Page x]Study of Play. He has co-authored (with Alyce Cheska) The Anthropology of Sport: An Introduction (1984). He wrote a single-author version of that book that was published in 1995. Other books that have sport and play themes include The Serious Side of Leisure: The Mississippi Choctaws at Play (1981), and The Many Faces of Play (1986).

Douglas Booth teaches courses in sports history and sports policy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa (1998) and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Sporting Traditions and the Journal of Sport History.

Jay Coakley is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 1972. He served as editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal (19849) and as President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (1992) and the Sport Sociology Academy of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (19834). He is author of Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies (2001, 7th edition) and co-editor (with P. Donnelly) of Inside Sports (1999).

Cheryl Cole is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds PhD degrees in Sport Studies from USC and in the Sociology of Culture/Women's Studies from the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on the relations among sport, the visualization of deviant bodies and national identity in post-war America. She co-edited Women, Sport and Culture with S. Birrell (1994), is co-editor of the State University of New York book series ‘Sport, Culture, and Social Relations’ and is editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues.

Chris Collins is a Senior Fellow at Massey University, New Zealand, and undertook his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Otago and Victoria Universities in New Zealand. At the time of writing he was Director of Sport and Recreation at Massey University and headed the university's academic programme in Sport Management and Coaching, delivered from the Department of Management Systems. His teaching responsibilites lie primarily in the area of sport in society and, to a lesser extent, sport management. His research interests are related to sport and religion, sport and politics and sport and social mobility. He is co-editor of Sport Management in New Zealand (1994), and Sport Business Management in New Zealand (1999) and is editor of Sport in New Zealand Society (2000). He has recently moved into a senior management role in the University.

Jacques DeFrance was born in Paris in 1948 and prepared his ‘Doctorat’ (PhD) on ‘The Genesis of Modern Physical Education in France (17701914)’ under the supervision of Pierre Bourdieu at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He has studied alcohol and drug use, environmental conflicts and comparative water policies in England, France and Germany. He is currently Professeur des Universités at the University of Paris X-Nanterre in the Department of Sports Sciences and director of the Laboratory on Sport and Culture. He has published [Page xi]on the social history of gymnastics and sports, the divisions among organizations in athletics in the 1980s, the role of the state in sports since the 1930s (with Jean Harvey and Rob Beamish), and on the use of the sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias in sports studies.

Peter Donnelly is a Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in Sport Studies from the University of Massachusetts in 1980. He has served in various offices for professional organizations in the sociology of sport, and is currently Director of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto. He edited the Sociology of Sport Journal from 1990 to 1994, is co-editor (with N. Theberge) of Sport and the Sociological Imagination, editor of Taking Sport Seriously, and co-editor (with J. Coakley) of Inside Sports.

Eric Dunning is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. He studied sociology under Norbert Elias as an undergraduate and as a postgraduate student, later coming to write two books and several articles with him. His main research interest is in sport and violence, and his latest book, Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization, was published by Routledge (1999).

Mary Duquin is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a PhD in Education from Stanford University in 1975. She has served as Chair of the Sport Sociology Academy and as President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Her research interests include the psychosocial and philosophical aspects of sport, health and the body in culture. She has written numerous articles on the importance of implementing an ethic of care in sport.

D. Stanley Eitzen is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Colorado State University. He has an AB from Bethel College, an MS in social science from Emporia State University, and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Kansas. He is the author or editor of 16 books, including three on sport: Sociology of North American Sport (6th edition) with G. H. Sage, Sport in Contemporary Society (5th edition), and Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. He is a former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, former editor of the Social Science Journal, and was recipient of the John N. Stern Distinguished Professorship at Colorado State University.

Kari Fasting is a professor at the Department of Social Science of the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education in Oslo, Norway. She lectures in sociology of sport, feminist theory of science and research methods. Her area of research is sociological and social psychological aspects of gender and sport. She has held many administrative positions, nationally and internationally. She was the first rector (president/vice-chancellor) of her university from 1989 to 1992, the first president of the Norwegian Society for Sport Research (19839), president of the International Sociology of Sport Association (19925), and is currently the vice-president of the executive board of WomenSport International.

[Page xii]Gyöngyi S. Földesi is Professor of Sociology at the Hungarian University of Physical Education in Budapest. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Physical Education in Warsaw in 1982 and in Physical Education from the University of Physical Education in Budapest in 1983. She served as Vice President of the International Committee for Sociology of Sport (now ISSA) from 1984 to 1992 and as Associate Editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport from 1988 to 1996. She has held various offices in Sport Science bodies, and she is the author of five books (1983, 1983, 1984, 1994, 1999) and the editor of three others (1985, 1994, 1996).

Diane L. Gill is a professor and head of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois in 1976 and was on the faculty at the Universities of Waterloo and Iowa before moving to UNCG in 1987. She is a past-president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and has served as president of Division 47 (Exercise and Sport Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. She is a past-editor of the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, author of several research articles and chapters, and is preparing a revised book, Psychological Dynamics of Sport and Exercise.

Allen Guttmann teaches at Amherst College and is President-Elect of the North American Society for Sport History. Of the dozen books he has written or translated on the history of sports, the best known are From Ritual to Record (1978) and Women's Sports (1991). The most recent titles are Games and Empires (1994) and The Erotic in Sports (1996). He is working on a history of Japanese sports and on a forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Women's Sports.

Jennifer Hargreaves is Professor of Sport Sociology at Brunel University. She edited Sport, Culture and Ideology (1982), and is the author of Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sports (1994) and Heroines of Sport: The Politics of Differance and Identity (2000). She has worked as a guest professor in Germany and Hong Kong and is on the editorial boards of four international journals.

Klaus Heinemann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg, having previously taught at the University of Trier. Besides having published, among other things, studies of youth unemployment, he has researched and written extensively on sports organizations and he is one of the pioneers of the study of the economics of sport. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport from 1988 to 1997 and is a leading figure in the comparative study of sport in Western Europe.

Denver J. Hendricks was born in Cape Town, South Africa and completed most of his schooling in the Port Elizabeth area of the Eastern Cape Province. He obtained a BA(Honours) degree in Physical Education from Rhodes University, majoring in the Sociology of Sport. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and proceeded to the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained a Masters Degree from Berkeley, focusing on the sociology of sport and issues of race and [Page xiii]sport in particular. Upon returning to South Africa, he took up a teaching position at the University of the Western Cape, eventually becoming Professor and Head of the Department of Human Movement Studies there. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape and later as Dean of Students at the University of Port Elizabeth.

Ian Henry is Professor of Recreation Management and Director of the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy at Loughborough University. His research interests focus on the analysis of leisure policy at the urban, national and transnational levels. His publications include The Politics of Leisure Policy (Macmillan) and a series of co-edited books on European Leisure Studies and Policy (Routledge and CAB International) including Leisure Policies in Europe and Leisure Research in Europe: Methods and Traditions.

Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy at Loughborough University. He received his PhD from the University of Salford in 1984. He has written widely on aspects of sport policy and politics and is the author of Sport and International Politics (1994), Sport, Policy and Politics: a Comparative Analysis (1997) and Dying to Win: Doping in Sport and the Development of Anti-Doping Policy (1999). His recent research interests concern sports development activity and the development of policy to counteract doping in sport.

Grant Jarvie is Professor of Sports Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Leicester in 1988. He is past convenor of the British Sociological Association's Sport Study Group and has served as President of the British Society of Sports History. He is author of Highland Games: the Making of the Myth (1991); co-author (with J. Maguire) of Sport and Leisure in Social Thought (1994); and editor of Scottish Sport in the Making of a Nation (1994), Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures (1999) and Sport, Scotland and the Scots (2000).

Koichi Kiku is Associate Professor of Sport Sociology and Sport Pedagogy at the Nara Women's University, Japan. He received his PhD in Pedagogy from the Tsukuba University in 1988. He was Director of the Japanese Society of Sport Sociology from 1995 to 1998. He is the author of The Historical Sociology of Professional Sport in Modern Japan (1993), and the co-author of The Sociology of LifeLong Sport (1997) and Changing Contemporary Society and Sport (1998).

Marc Lavoie is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa. He received his PhD from the University of Paris-1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in 1979. A specialist of growth theory and monetary theory, he has published articles on discrimination and salary determination in sport and two books on ice hockey, Avantage numérique: l'argent et la Ligue Nationale de Hockey (1997) and Désavantage numérique: les francophones dans la LNH (1998).

Burn-Jang Lim is Professor of Sport Sociology at the Department of Physical Education, College of Education, Seoul National University, Korea. He received a PhD in Educational Sociology from Hanyang University in 1986. He has served as an Executive Board member of the International Sociology of Sport Association [Page xiv](19925), President of the Korean Society for Sociology of Sport (198596), President of the Korean Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (19978), Executive Board member of the Korean Olympic Committee (19904), and a Board member of the Korean Sport Council (19979). He has edited the Bulletin of ISSA (19929), is the author of Sociology of Sport (1994), Swimming (1979), Advanced Swimming (1982), Gymnastics (1982), and is co-author of Hockey (1982) and Skiing (1998).

John Loy is Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and past vice president of the International Sociology of Sport Association. He is the co-author of 10 books, and has published more than 100 papers, including articles in the American Sociological Review, the British Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Work and Occupations, Urban Life, Quest, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and Sport Science Review.

Günther Lüschen, PhD, HonD, is Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also Professor Emeritus of the Universities of Düsseldorf and Illinois. In 1981 he edited (with George Sage) the Handbook of Social Science of Sport. His most recent publications include Das Moralische in der Soziologie (1998), Sport and Public Health in America and Europe (1998), Sportpolitik (1996 with A. Rütten) and Health Systems in the European Union (1995).

Joseph Maguire is Professor of the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, England. He received a BEd (Hons) from the University of London (1979) and a PhD in Sociology from Leicester University in 1985. He has served on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and is co-editor and author of several books including Sport and Leisure in Social Thought (1994, with G. Jarvie) and Global Sport: Identities, Societies and Civilizations (1999). He is currently President of the International Sociology of Sport Association.

Salomé Marivoet is a Lecturer at the Technical University of Lisbon where she teaches the Sociology of Sport. She graduated in 1985, earned a Masters Degree in Sociology in 1994 at the Technical University of Lisbon and she is currently working on her PhD on ‘Sports Ethics: A Sociological Analysis of Value-Orientations Towards Action in Portugal (19742000)’ under the supervision of Eric Dunning. Her research has been on violence, performance and sports habits. In addition to journal articles and reviews, she has published Aspectos Sociológicos do Desporto (1998; Sociological Aspects of Sport).

Ian McDonald is based in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton, where he lectures and researches in sport and policy. He is co-author of Anyone for Cricket? Equal Opportunities and Changing Cricket Cultures in Essex and East London (1998), co-editor of The Production and Consumption of Sport Cultures (1999) and Sport, Race and British Society (2000). He also studies the politics of sporting nationalism in South Asia with particular reference to Hindu nationalism in India.

[Page xv]Andrew Miracle is professor and chair of the Department of Health Sciences at Cleveland State University. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida in 1976. He has served as president of the Association for the Study of Play and of the Southern Anthropological Society. He has published eight books, including Lessons of the Locker Room: the Myth of School Sport (1994, with C. Roger Rees).

William Morgan is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Tennessee. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1976. He has been editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport since 1994, and is a long-standing member of its editorial board. He is the author of Leftist Theories of Sport: a Critique and Reconstruction (1994), and co-editor, with Klaus Meier, of Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (1988). He has authored numerous articles in the philosophy and social theory of sport.

Patrick Murphy graduated from the University of Leicester in 1972. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Leicester and a Director of the University's Centre for Research into Sport and Society. His main research interests are football hooliganism, the management and administration of association football, and sports policy in general. He is co-author of The Roots of Football Hooliganism, Hooligans Abroad and Football on Trial. He is also the editor of the Singer and Friedlander Review.

Howard L. Nixon II is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Towson University. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971. He is the author of a number of articles and three books related to sport: Sport and Social Organization (1976), Sport and the American Dream (1984), and (with James Frey) A Sociology of Sport (1996). He has also taught courses and published in other areas of sociology, including organizations, organizational deviance, small groups, the family, disability and society, and structural analysis.

Claudia Pinheiro is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, University of Coimbra where she teaches the Sociology of Sport. She graduated in 1990 from the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, University of Porto, earned an MA in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Leicester in 1993, and she is currently working on her PhD. Her main academic interests are in women's sports and gender relations.

Núria Puig is Professor of the Sociology of Sport at the Institut Nacional d'Educació Fisica de Catalunya (INEF-Catalunya), of the Universitat de Barcelona, in Spain. She earned her degree in Modern History at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1973, her PhD in Sociology at the Université de Paris VII in 1980 and her PhD in the Philosophy and Science of Education at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1993. Her main research areas related to sports are socialization, sports policy, sport organizations and urban problems. Her last two books are Joves i Esport (Youth and Sport; Barcelona, 1996) and Sociología del Deporte (Sociology of Sport, Madrid, 1998; co-edited with M.G. Ferrando and F. Lagardera).

[Page xvi]C. Roger Rees is a professor in the Department of Health Studies, Physical Education and Human Performance Science at Adelphi University on Long Island, NY. He received his PhD in the sociology of sport and physical education from the University of Maryland in 1978. He has published several books including (with A. Miracle) Sport and Social Theory (1986), and Lessons of the Locker Room: the Myth of School Sports (1994), and numerous articles in sociology, sport and physical education journals.

Bero Rigauer studied Sociology at the Main Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and Sociology and Physical Education at the University of Frankfurt. He is a Professor in the Department of Sportwissenschaft (Sports Sciences) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, where he teaches courses in the Sociology of Sport, the Social and Cultural History of Sport, the General Theory of Sport, and the Methodology of the Sciences. He is an ‘elder sportsman’ who enjoys skiing, basketball, volleyball and Chinese pa tuan chin.

Robert Rinehart is with California State University, San Bernardino. He earned his PhD in sport sociology from the University of Illinois. His major research interests are in qualitative methods of enquiry, alternative sport forms and sport as performance. He is the author of the book Players All: Performances in Contemporary Sport (1998), and he has published articles in sport-related journals in history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. His most recent project is as co-editor (with Synthia Sydnor) of To the Extreme: Alternative Sport, Inside and Out (State University of New York Press).

George Sage is a professor emeritus of Sociology and Kinesiology at the University of Northern Colorado. He received BA and MA degrees from the University of Northern Colorado, and an EdD from UCLA. He has served as President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and Vice President of the Executive Board of the International Sociology of Sport Association. He edited three editions of Sport and American Society, authored two editions of Power and Ideology in American Sport: a Critical Perspective, and co-authored (with D.S. Eitzen) six editions of Sociology of North American Sport.

Ken Sheard obtained his BA and MPhil degrees from the University of Leicester and his PhD from the Council for National Academic Awards. Having taught at the University of Evansville (English campus) and Anglia Polytechnic University, he is now Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester and a Director of the University's Centre for Research into Sport and Society. His main research areas have been the development of rugby, the development of boxing and the emergence of bird-watching as a sport-like activity.

Mari-Kristin Sisjord holds a PhD in Sport Sociology from the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education. The title of her thesis was ‘Sport and Youth Culture’. She is currently an Associate Professor in Sport Sociology at the same university and a Member of the Executive Board of the International Sociology of Sport Association. Her main research fields are youth sports and gender.

[Page xvii]Nancy Struna is a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely on the social history of sport and leisure in early America, including People of Prowess: Sport, Leisure and Labor in Early Anglo-America (1996). Dr Struna is currently doing research on the social history of taverns and tavern life and on the transformation of ordinary life in the United States during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also a past-president of the North American Society for Sport History.

John Sugden is Professor of the Sociology of Sport, Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, England. He studied politics and sociology for his BA and took MA and PhD degrees in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Connecticut. He has written on sport politics and comparative aspects of sport cultures. His most recent books, both co-authored with A. Tomlinson, are FIFA and the Contest for World Football Who Rules the Peoples' Game (1998) and Great Balls of Fire How Big Money is Hijacking World Football (1999). He also wrote Boxing and Society (1996) and, with Alan Bairner, Sport, Sectarianism and Society in a Divided Ireland (1993).

Nancy Theberge is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Kinesiology and Sociology. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1977. She has served on the editorial board of the Sociology of Sport Journal and has published articles in a variety of journals, including the Sociology of Sport Journal, Gender and Society and Social Problems. She is co-editor (with Peter Donnelly) of Sport and the Sociological Imagination and author of Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender.

Eleni Theodoraki is Lecturer in Sport Management and a member of the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy at Loughborough University, England. Her publications include chapters on organizational analysis of sport-governing bodies in edited books by K. Heinemann and A. Rütten, and the Greek Association of Sport Managers. Her current research interests focus on managerial rationality and the decision-making process.

Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies, Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, England. He studied Humanities and Sociology for his BA at the University of Kent, and took Masters and Doctoral degrees in Sociological Studies at the University of Sussex. He has written on the social history and sociology of sport, leisure and consumption. His most recent books include (both co-authored with J. Sugden) FIFA and the Contest for World Football Who Rules the Peoples' Game (1998) and Great Balls of Fire How Big Money is Hijacking World Football (1999). He wrote The Game's Up Essays in the Cultural Analysis of Sport, Leisure and Popular Culture (1999) and Sport and Leisure Cultures Local and Global Dimensions is due to appear in 2001. He is Editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport.

Ivan Waddington is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester and a Director of the University's Centre for Research into Sport and Society. His [Page xviii]major research interests concern the relationships between sport and health, and he authored Sport, Health and Drugs (2000). He has also studied the roles of club doctor and club physiotherapist in English professional football (soccer) for the Professional Footballers Association.

Garry Whannel is Professor of Television Cultures at the University of Luton and was a Co-Director of the Centre for Sport Development Research. He has a BA in Media Studies and a PhD in Cultural Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Leisure Studies and The Journal of Sport and Social Issues. He is the author of Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation (1992), Blowing the Whistle: the Politics of Sport (1983) and co-author (with J. Horne and A. Tomlinson) of Understanding Sport (1999).

Kevin Young is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physical Education, Sport Science and Recreation Management at Loughborough University, UK. Kevin has published on a variety of sports-related issues and is the co-editor (with Philip White) of Sport and Gender in Canada (1999). He has served terms on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal and Avante, and on the Executive Board of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. He is currently Vice President of the International Sociology of Sport Association.