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History Faculty

Dr. Wanda Wakefield

Office: 124 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5696/2291
E-Mail: wwakefie@brockport.edu

Specialization 

• Modern America, Sports History

Education 

• PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo
• MA, SUNY College at Brockport
• JD, University of Illinois
• BA, Grinnell College

Courses Taught  

• Culture and Sport (An examination of the role sport plays in societies around the world.)
• The History Seminar
• Modern America
• American Cultural History
• World of the First Olympians
• in Delta College: the first social science courses on Society and Culture (Dr. Wakefield also teaches in Delta College)

Publications 

• Playing to Win: Sports and the American Military, 1898-1945. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Last Updated 8/15/12

News

Dr. Takashi Nishiyama interviewed by Yomuiri, Japan's major national newspaper.

Dr. Ken O'Brien has been named a SUNY Provost Fellow for the 2013-2014 year.

Dr. Bruce Leslie has been made a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor.

Dr. Morag Martin receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.

History students win campus-wide awards for 2012-13 year!

Events

The Synnesvedt lecture will be on Oct. 10 at 7:30pm in the New York Room in Cooper Hall.