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Rebekka von Mallinckrodt is Professor for Early Modern History at the University of Bremen and a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. She has worked in the fields of religious studies, the history of the body, postcolonial and slavery studies. From 2015 to 2021, she is leading the ERC Consolidator Grant Project "The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and its Slaves." With regard to sports and physical exercise she has published Bewegtes Leben - Körpertechniken in der Fru¨hen Neuzeit/Life on the Move - Body Techniques in the Early Modern Period (Harrassowitz, 2008), Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture (with Angela Schattner, Routledge, 2016), and numerous articles on the cultural and social history of running, swimming, and diving. John McClelland is a Professor Emeritus of French literature and former associated professor of the history of sport, University of Toronto, Canada. He has published numerous works, including Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (2006). Mark Dyreson is a Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State, USA. He has authored and edited 10 books, including, most recently, Sports History: Issues, Debates and Challenges (2016) Sport in the Americas (2018). Wray Vamplew is Emeritus Professor of Sports History at the University of Stirling, where he was appointed as Scotland's first Chair in Sports History, and Global Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored and edited more than twenty books, including most recently, Numbers and Narratives: Sport, History and Economics (2018). |
