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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.