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Zachary Bigalke, PhD
Zachary Bigalke, PhD
Visiting Teaching Professor, History and Philosophy of Sport
Summary Statement
Zachary Bigalke’s research focuses on the intersection of sport and identity formation, with a focus on the use of international tournaments to integrate immigrant athletes into national communities and the use of sport to reinforce local and regional identities.
Department
Education
Email
Office Address
268U Recreation Building
University Park, PA 16802
University Park, PA 16802
Publications
- Zachary R. Bigalke, “The Sun Rises on Coney Island: Japanese Competitive Eaters, Sportification, and the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest as Global Spectacle,” Journal of Sport History 50, no. 3 (2024): 377-394.
- Zachary R. Bigalke, “Soccer in the Heart of Cascadia: Portland, Astoria, and the Growth of the Sport from 1890 to the Advent of World War,” in Soccer Frontiers: The Global Game in the United States 1863-1913, ed. Chris Bolsmann and George N. Kioussis (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021).
- Zachary R. Bigalke, “Wintertime Mercenaries: Contextualizing Foreign-Born Athletes at the Winter Olympics, 1924–2018,” Journal of Olympic Studies 2, no. 2 (2021): 63-83.
- Patrick H. Salkeld and Zachary R. Bigalke, “Sport as an Intersectional Locus for Protest,” Yearbook of Women’s History 38 (2019): 171-178.
- Zachary R. Bigalke, “The Birth of the Springboks: The Impact of the 1903 and 1906-07 Rugby Tours on the Development of Unified White Cultural Identity in South Africa,” in Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation, ed. Michael J. Gennaro and Saheed Aderinto (London: Routledge, 2019).
- Zachary R. Bigalke, “Anything but Ringers: Early American Soccer Hotbeds and the 1930 U.S. World Cup Team,” Soccer & Society 19, no. 7 (2018): 986-1006.
Additional Information
AWARDS:
- North American Society for Sport, History Graduate Student Essay Award, 2020
- Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research, Robert K. Barney Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2020