Cesar R. Torres, PhD

Cesar R. Torres, PhD

Professor

(585) 395-5339
crtorres@brockport.edu
Office:  Tuttle North 309

Education

• PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
• Senior Diploma in Social Sciences, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO). Buenos Aires, Argentina
• B.S., National Institute of Physical Education "Dr. Enrique Romero Brest." Buenos Aires, Argentina

Area(s) of Specialty

• Philosophy of Sport
• History of Sport

Research Interest(s)

• Philosophy of Sport: Play, Games, and Skills. Mind-Body dualism. Sport Ethics.
• History of Sport: Latin American early sport and Olympic involvement.
• Development of the sporting dialogue among the Americas.

Awards/Honors

• 2016-2017 Warren P. Fraleigh Distinguished Scholar Award. International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. September 2017.
• 2014 Distinguished Service Award. International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. September 2014.
• Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology. Elected in 2013.
• 2012-2013 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. State University of New York. May 2013.
• 2007 Reinhard Sprenger Award for Young Scholars. International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. August 2007.
• 2006-2007. Ronald E. McNair Program Mentor of the Year Award. SUNY Brockport, State University of New York. April 2007.
• 2001 W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award. University Office of International Programs. Penn State University, University Park, PA. January 2001.
• University Orientation Outstanding Teaching Team Award. Undergraduate Studies. Kent State University, Kent, OH. November 2000.

• Publications 

  Books:

  • Bernard Suits, La cigarra: los juegos, la vida y la utopía, trans. Francisco Javier López Frías and Cesar R. Torres (Buenos Aires: Espíritu Guerrero Editor, 2022).
  • Rodrigo Daskal, Daniel Sazbón and Cesar R. Torres, Historia de la Confederación Argentina de Deportes (1921-2021) (Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Sur, 2021).
  • Antonio Sotomayor and Cesar R. Torres, eds., Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean (Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2020). Finalist for the 2021 North American Society for Sport History Book Prize for the best sport history anthology published in 2020.
  • Cesar R. Torres and Daniel G. Campos, eds., ¿La pelota no dobla? Ensayos filosóficos en torno al fútbol, 2nd. ed. (Buenos Aires: ISTFG and ISTQ, 2020).
  • Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky and Cesar R. Torres, eds., El rostro cambiante del deporte. Perspectivas historiográficas angloparlantes (1970-2010) (Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2019).
  • Bruce Kidd and Cesar R. Torres, eds., Historicizing the Pan-American Games (London: Routledge, 2017).
  • Cesar R. Torres and Claudio M. Tamburrini, Columna deportiva. Artículos sobre deporte, ética y sociedad (Brockport, NY: SUNY Brockport eBooks, 2016).
  • Robert L. Simon, Cesar R. Torres and Peter F. Hager, Fair Play. The Ethics of Sport, 4th. ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2015).
  • Cesar R. Torres, ed., The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport (London: Bloomsbury, 2014).
  • Cesar R. Torres, Jogos Olímpicos Latino-Americanos Rio de Janeiro 1922 (Manaus: Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo, 2012).
  • Cesar R. Torres, Gol de media cancha. Conversaciones para disfrutar el deporte plenamente (Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila Editores, 2011).
  • Cesar R. Torres, ed., Niñez, deporte y actividad física: reflexiones filosóficas sobre una relación compleja (Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila Editores, 2008).
  • Cesar R. Torres and Daniel G. Campos, eds., ¿La pelota no dobla? Ensayos filosóficos en torno al fútbol (Buenos Aires: Libros del Zorzal, 2006).

  Recent Refereed Journal Articles:

  • Cesar R. Torres, Francisco Javier López Frías and María José Martínez Patiño, “Beyond Physiology: Embodied Experience, Embodied Advantage, and the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport,” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 16, 1 (2022): 33-49.
  • R. Scott Kretchmar and Cesar R. Torres, “Challenges, Achievements, and Uncertainties: The Philosophy of Sport since the 1980s,” Kinesiology Review 10, 3 (2021): 283-291.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “Sporting Violence in Argentina during the Interwar Years: The Cases of Boxing and Fencing,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina/Interdisciplinary Studies of Latin America 31, 2 (2020): 17-41.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “What Is the Value of Pursuing Optimal Athletic Performance,” Kinesiology Review 9, 1 (2020): 13-20.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “Completing the Account: The Complex Preparations for the 1926 Central American Games,” Journal of Olympic Studies 1, 1 (2020): 37-59.
  • Cesar R. Torres and Francisco Javier López Frías, “The Ethics of the Special Ranking for Pregnancy in Tennis,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 47, 1 (2020): 121-141.
  • Francisco Javier López Frías and Cesar R. Torres, “The Ethics of Cloning Horses in Polo,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy 33, 1 (2019): 125-139.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “Olympic or Sacred? The Controversy over the Flame at the Inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games and Its Aftermath,” The International Journal of the History of Sport 36, 4-5 (2019): 340-358.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “What Counts As Part of a Game? Reconsidering Skills,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 45, 1 (2018): 1-21.

  Recent Essays in Books:

  • Cesar R. Torres and R. Scott Kretchmar, “Philosophy of Physical Activity,” in Introduction to Kinesiology, 6th. ed., ed. Duane Knudson and Tim Brusseau (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2022), 49-75.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “Embajadas viriles: masculinidad y nación en el Movimiento Olímpico argentino (1894-1936),” in Hombres en movimiento. Deporte, cultura física y masculinidades, ed. Pablo Scharagrodsky (Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2021), 15-44.
  • Cesar R. Torres Francisco and Francisco Javier López Frías, “Coronavirus, Videogames, and Olympism,” in Reinventando o esporte e os jogos olímpicos após COVID-19: retorno a Pierre de Coubertin/Reinventing Sport and the Olympic Games after COVID-19: Return to Pierre de Coubertin, eds. Nelson Todt, Ana Maria de Freitas Miragaya, and Lamartine P. Da Costa (Rio de Janeiro: eMuseu do Esporte, 2020), 151-156.
  • Francisco Javier López Frías and Cesar R. Torres, “¿Ha demostrado el coronavirus que ‘se podía vivir sin deporte’?,” in El deporte tras el coronavirus, ed. José Luis Pérez Triviño (Barcelona: n.p., 2020), 347-352.
  • Cesar R. Torres, “Solving the ‘Problem of Argentine Sport’: The Post-Peronist Olympic Movement in Argentina,” in Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin American and the Caribbean, eds. Antonio Sotomayor and Cesar R. Torres (Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2020), 111-130.
  • Cesar R. Torres and Douglas W. McLaughlin, “Rectifying a Name? A Reflection on Disciplinary Terminology,” in Changes in Childhood and Adolescence: Current Challenges for Physical Education. Keynotes, Invited Symposia and Selected Contributions of the 12th FIEP European Congress, eds. Claude Scheuer, Andreas Bund, and Martin Holzweg (Berlin: Logos, 2018), 198-204.
  • R. Scott Kretchmar and Cesar R. Torres, “Philosophy of Physical Activity,” in Introduction to Kinesiology, 5th. ed., ed. Shirl J. Hoffman and Duane Knudson (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2018), 91-116.