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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:
January 20, 2024
Fit Nation
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…
December 19, 2023
Basketball Empire
Today we are joined by Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff, who is an historian, specializing in global sport, communications and diplomacy. She is also the Director…
December 12, 2023
It Was Always a Choice
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…
November 27, 2023
After the Count
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…
October 21, 2023
Velocipedomania
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…
September 17, 2023
Shifting Currents
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…
February 4, 2023
Sport and the Home Front
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…
October 19, 2022
Mexican American Fastpitch
Today we are joined by Ben Chappell, Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas, and author of Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at …
September 21, 2022
Never Say Die
Today we are joined by two guests: Dr. Fiona Crawford, a writer, editor, and researcher whose work engages with social, environmental, and sports. Dr.…
August 24, 2022
Futsal
Today we are joined by Jamie Fahey, a Guardian journalist and production editor with more than twenty years’ experience on several national newspapers…
August 18, 2022
Soccer in Mind
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…
June 21, 2022
Bondi Beach
Today we are joined by Douglas Booth, Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada and Profe…
May 19, 2022
Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era
Today we are joined by Dr. Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor of Theatre History, and author of Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progr…
March 9, 2022
The Evolution of a Cricket Fan
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…
February 25, 2022
Hail Mary
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…
February 17, 2022
Roller Derby
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…
February 11, 2022
Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games
Today we are joined by Heather Dichter, Associate Professor of Sports History and Sports Management at the International Centre for Sports History and…
January 12, 2022
The Story of Yoga
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…
December 10, 2021
Sport and Moral Conflict
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…
November 5, 2021
Whose Game?
Today we are joined by Rebecca Joyce Kissane, Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College, and Sarah Winslow, Professor of Sociology at Clemson Univer…
October 11, 2021
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Today we are joined by Jessica Luther, a freelance investigative journalist, and Kavitha Davidson, a sport and culture writer with the Athletic, who t…
September 23, 2021
Spartakiads
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…
August 31, 2021
Creating a United Europe of Football
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:…
August 6, 2021
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia
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…