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History Faculty

Dr. Wanda Wakefield

Office: 145 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 7/21/10

News

Dr. Wakefield interviewed by Ed Hinton for ESPN on NASCAR, Jimmie Johnson, and Chad Knaus

Dr. Moyer on Le Roy Health Crisis & Salem Witch trials

Dr. Macpherson wins prestigious Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians

Events

Meet and Greet the Professors, March 21st, 2:30-3:20.  Location TBD.

Robert Marcus Memorial Lecture, April 5, 2012, 7:30 pm, New York Room, Cooper Hall.