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Catherine Ariail

20th-Century U.S. Cultural History

Alumnus (Graduate Program)
B.A., The University of the South, 2009

cariail@uga.edu

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I study the intersection between women's sports culture and society in the late twentieth-century United States, with special interest in the experiences of female distance runners in the 1970s.

Research and Teaching Interests

[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Gender & Sexuality]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[Women's History]

MA Thesis

"The Women's Distance Running Industry and the Paradox of Women's Sports: Class, Consumption, Identity, and the Subordination of Women in American Sports Culture," supervised by Dr. Bethany Moreton (2013)