About Keith Rathbone

Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history.

NBN Episodes hosted by Keith:

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

January 20, 2024

Fit Nation

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Associate Professor of History at The New School, and author of Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of Am…

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

December 19, 2023

Basketball Empire

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff, who is an historian, specializing in global sport, communications and diplomacy. She is also the Director…

David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)

December 12, 2023

It Was Always a Choice

David Steele
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronic…

Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)

November 27, 2023

After the Count

Stephanie Convery
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Stephanie Convery, inequality editor at Guardian Australia, and author of After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne (Penguin A…

Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)

October 21, 2023

Velocipedomania

Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Corry Cropper, a Professor of French at Brigham Young University, and one of two authors, alongside Seth Whidden, of Velocipedo…

Karen Eva Carr, "Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

September 17, 2023

Shifting Currents

Karen Eva Carr
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Dr. Karen Carr, Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of History at Portland State University and the author of Shiftin…

Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

February 4, 2023

Sport and the Home Front

Matthew Taylor
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play…

Ben Chappell, "Mexican American Fastpitch: Vernacular Sport and Cultural Citizenship in Mid-America" (Stanford UP, 2021)

October 19, 2022

Mexican American Fastpitch

Ben Chappell
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Ben Chappell, Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas, and author of Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at …

Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)

September 21, 2022

Never Say Die

Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by two guests: Dr. Fiona Crawford, a writer, editor, and researcher whose work engages with social, environmental, and sports. Dr.…

Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2022)

August 24, 2022

Futsal

Jamie Fahey
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Jamie Fahey, a Guardian journalist and production editor with more than twenty years’ experience on several national newspapers…

Andrew M. Guest, "Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

August 18, 2022

Soccer in Mind

Andrew M. Guest
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Andrew Guest, Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Portland, where he also serves as Director of the Core…

Douglas Booth, "Bondi Beach: Representations of an Iconic Australian" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

June 21, 2022

Bondi Beach

Douglas Booth
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Douglas Booth, Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada and Profe…

Shannon L. Walsh, "Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

May 19, 2022

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Shannon L. Walsh
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Dr. Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor of Theatre History, and author of Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progr…

Samir Chopra, "The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey" (Temple UP, 2021)

March 9, 2022

The Evolution of a Cricket Fan

Samir Chopra
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Dr. Samir Chopra, Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and au…

Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

February 25, 2022

Hail Mary

Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Frankie de la Cretaz, a sports journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of sport and gender, and one of the authors al…

Michella M. Marino, "Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport" (U Texas Press, 2021)

February 17, 2022

Roller Derby

Michella M. Marino
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Dr. Michella Marino, the Deputy Director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, a division of the Indiana State Library, and the aut…

Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)

February 11, 2022

Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games

Heather L. Dichter
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Heather Dichter, Associate Professor of Sports History and Sports Management at the International Centre for Sports History and…

Alistair Shearer, "The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West" (Hurst, 2020)

January 12, 2022

The Story of Yoga

Alistair Shearer
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Alistair Shearer, a freelance scholar of South Asian religion and culture, and teacher of yoga and the psychology of yoga. He i…

William J. Morgan, "Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory" (Temple UP, 2020)

December 10, 2021

Sport and Moral Conflict

William J. Morgan
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by William J. Morgan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, and the author of Sport and Moral Conflict: A C…

Rebecca Joyce Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports" (Temple UP, 2020)

November 5, 2021

Whose Game?

Rebecca Joyce Kissane and Sarah Winslow
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Rebecca Joyce Kissane, Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College, and Sarah Winslow, Professor of Sociology at Clemson Univer…

Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson, "Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back" (U Texas Press, 2020)

October 11, 2021

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Jessica Luther, a freelance investigative journalist, and Kavitha Davidson, a sport and culture writer with the Athletic, who t…

Petr Roubal, "Spartakiads: The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia" (Karolinum Press, 2020)

September 23, 2021

Spartakiads

Petr Roubal
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Petr Roubal, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in the Czech Academy of Sciences, and author of Spartak…

Philippe Vonnard, "Creating a United Europe of Football: The Formation of UEFA (1949–1961)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

August 31, 2021

Creating a United Europe of Football

Philippe Vonnard
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Philippe Vonnard, Senior SNSF Researcher at the University de Lausanne, and the author of Creating a United Europe of Football:…

Richard Mills, "The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)

August 6, 2021

The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia

Richard Mills
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Richard Mills, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia, and the author of The Politics of Football in Yugos…