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Darcy C. Plymire, Ph.D.
Western Illinois University
221-D Brophy Hall
Department of Kinesiology
1 University Cr.
Macomb, Il 61455
309-318-1521 (cell)
dc-plymire@wiu.edu
CURRENT POSITION
Western Illinois University--Faculty, Department of Kinesiology
Fall 2011-present
Courses
• Public and Media Relations in Sport
• Sport Marketing
• Social and Ethical Issues in Sport
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
State University of New York, College at Cortland—Adjunct Faculty, Department of
Kinesiology and Department of Sport Management
Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Courses
· History and Governance of International Sport
· History and Philosophy of Physical Education and Sport
· Social Problems and Issues in Sport and Exercise
· Society, Culture, and Sport
· Sport Marketing (online graduate class)
· Sport Media Management (online graduate class)
Ithaca College—Assistant Professor, Department of Sport Management and Media
Fall 2005 to Spring 2008
Courses
· Blogging in Sport and Media (online undergraduate class)
· Evolution of Sport Media
· History of Sport
· New Media (online undergraduate class)
· Social Aspects of Sport
· Sport Media Relations
· Sport Publications
Towson University—Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Fall 2000-Spring 2005
Courses
· History of American Sport
· Sport Culture and Counterculture
· Sport and Media
· Sport and Society
· The American Woman and Sport
· World History of Sport to 1900
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Appalachian State University— Adjunct Instructor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Fall 1997-Spring2000
Courses
· Body in Culture
· Democracy, Identity, and the Internet
· Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies
· Sport in American Culture
· Women and the Body
· X-Games and New Games
EDUCATION
The University of Iowa—Ph.D., Department of Sport, Health, Leisure and Physical Studies,
Cultural Studies of Sport and Exercise, 1997
· Dissertation: A Moral Exercise: Long-Distance Running in the 1970s
· Advisor: Dr. Susan Birrell
University of California, Davis— M.A., Physical Education, 1992
· Thesis: Development and Validation of the Running Addiction Questionnaire
· Advisor: Sue Jennings
Ohio University, Athens—B.S.C., Interpersonal Communications, 1982
SCHOLARSHIP
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Plymire, D. C. (2012). Teaching the sociological imagination: Learning from “The Biggest
Loser.” Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 83 (8), 23-26.
_____. (2010). How Indy got its groove back: Celebrity culture and the Indy Racing League.
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 8, 145-159.
_____. (2009). Remediating football for the posthuman future: Embodiment and subjectivity in
sport video games. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26, 17-30.
_____. (2008). The Wiki defense: Contesting the status of knowledge in the Floyd Landis doping
case. International Journal of Sport Communication, 1, 307-319.
_____. (2004). “Positive addiction”: Running and human potential in the 1970s. Journal of Sport
History,31 ,297-315.1
_____. (2006). The legend of the Tarahumara: Tourism, overcivilization, and the white man’s
Indian. International Journal of Sport History, 23, 154-167.
Plymire, D. C. & Forman, P. J. (2005). Amélie Mauresmo’s muscles: The lesbian heroic in
women’s professional tennis. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 33, 120-133.
Plymire, D. C. (2002). Running, heart disease, and the ironic death of Jim Fixx. Research
Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 73, 38-46.
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years.
appeared in 2006. The Journal of Sport History was without an editor for the better part of two
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Plymire, D. C. & Forman, P. J. (2001). Speaking of Cheryl Miller: Interrogating the lesbian taboo
on a women’s basketball newsgroup. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 13,
1-21.
_____. (2000). Breaking the silence: Lesbian fans, the Internet, and the sexual politics of
women’s sport. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, 5, 141-153.
Plymire, D. C. (1999). Too much, too fast, too soon: Chinese women runners, accusations of
steroid use, and the politics of American track and field. Sociology of Sport Journal, 16,
155-163.
Encyclopedia Entries
Plymire, D. C. (2011). Automobile racing. In S. Reiss, M. Adelman, and P. Vertinsky (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of North American Sport. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
_____. (2011). Dale Earnhardt. In S. Reiss, M. Adelman, and P. Vertinsky (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
North American Sport. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
_____. (2011). Jogging. In S. Reiss, M. Adelman, and P. Vertinsky (Eds.) Encyclopedia of North
American Sport. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
_____. (2011). The Indianapolis 500. In S. Reiss, M. Adelman, and P. Vertinsky (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of North American Sport. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Book Chapters
_____. (2007). The legend of the Tarahumara: Tourism, overcivilization, and the white man’s
Indian. In King, C. R. (Ed.), Native Americans and sport in North America: Other
people’s games. New York: Routledge.
_____. (2005). Qualitative methods in sport/media analysis. In Andrews, D., Mason, D. S., &
Silk, M. (Eds.), Qualitative methods in sport studies, pp. 139-164. New York: Berg.
Arnold, E. L., & Plymire, D. C. (2003). The Cherokee Indians and the internet. In Dines, G., &
Humez, J. M. (Eds.), Gender, race, and class in media: A text-reader, pp. 715-722.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Arnold, E. L., & Plymire, D. C. (2005). Continuity within change: The Cherokee Indians and the
internet. In O’Brien, J. A. (Ed.), The production of reality: Essays and readings on social
interaction, pp. 476-483. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Arnold, E. L., & Plymire, D. C. (2004). Continuity within change: The Cherokee Indians and the
internet. In Gauntlett, D., & Horsley, R. (Eds.), Web.Studies, pp. 254-264. London:
Oxford University Press.
Arnold, E. L., & Plymire, D. C. (2000). The Cherokee Indians and the internet. In David
Gauntlett (Ed.), Web.studies: Rewiring media studies for the digital age. London: Arnold.
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Book Reviews
Plymire, D. C. (2004) [Review of Zatopek! Zatopek! Zatopek!]. International Journal of the
History of Sport, 21, 326-327.
_____. (2004). [Review of To show what an Indian can do]. International Journal of the History
of Sport, 21, 324-436
_____. (2004). [Review of Running through the ages]. Journal of Sport History
_____. (2000). Teaching gender in lesbian and gay studies. [Review essay of Butch/femme:
Inside lesbian gender; Married women who love women; Pomosexuals: Challenging
assumptions about gender and sexuality; Render me, gender me: Lesbians talk sex, class,
color, nation, studmuffins; Sex and sensibility: Stories of a lesbian generation]. National
Women’s Studies Association Journal,12, 174-180.
_____. (1998). [Review of Cross purposes: Lesbians, feminists, and the limits of alliance;
Feminism meets queer theory; and The new lesbian studies]. National Women’s Studies
Association Journal, 10(2), 143-147.
_____. (1997). [Review of Training the body for China: Sports in the moral order of the People’s
Republic]. Sociology of Sport Journal, 14, 97-99.
Published Conference Proceedings
Plymire, D. C. The ideology of running and the whiteness of wellness (Abstract). In Lomax, M.
E. (ed.), 2004 North American Society for Sport History, Proceedings, Athens, GA, pp.
95-96.
_____. Making a habit of running: The social construction of running addiction. In Lomax, M. E.
(ed.), 2001 North American Society for Sport History, Proceedings and newsletter, Iowa
City, Iowa, p. 108.
Invited Presentations
Plymire, D. C. (2007). Remediating American football in an age of convergence.
Videoconference presentation to the FIFA Master in Humanities, Management and Law
of Sport, in collaboration with the International Center for Sport and Culture, DeMontfort
University, UK.
_____. (2002). Critical sport media analysis. Sport Studies Symposium, 2002: Qualitative
Methods in Sport Studies. The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
_____. (1999). Making community: Lesbians at Appalachian. Presentation at “Common
Ground,” Women and Leadership Conference, Appalachian State University, Boone,
North Carolina.
_____. (1998). Don’t ask, don’t tell: Discussing the sexual politics of women’s sports. Seminar
presentation for the Department of Women’s Studies at Appalachian State University,
Boone, North Carolina.
_____. (1996). Promoting peaceful evolution: US political strategy and media coverage of
Chinese Olympic Sport. Paper presented at the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, The
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Refereed Conference Presentations
Plymire, D. C. (2012). The language of Warcraft: The prevalence of profanity and inflammatory
speech in an online role playing game. Paper presented at the North American Society for
the Sociology of Sport, New Orleans, LA.
_____. (2011). Playing with myselves: Digital games and posthuman subjectivities. Paper
presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Minneapolis, MN.
Plymire, D. C., & Lapp, J. (2007). The self-inflating story of obesity. Paper presented at the North
American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Pittsburgh, PA.
Plymire, D. C. (2007). Wii are the world? Paper presented at the North American Society for the
Sociology of Sport, Pittsburgh, PA.
_____. (2006). Remediating the NFL. Paper presented at the North American Society for the
Sociology of Sport, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
_____. (2005). NASCAR dads, populism, and the specter of George Wallace. Paper presented at
the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
_____. (2004). Toward a genealogy of wellness: Destabilizing a unified definition. Paper
presented at the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, Tucson, Arizona.
_____. (2004). The whiteness of wellness. Paper presented at the North American Society for
Sport History, Asilomar, California.
_____. (2003). Specters of Appalachia: The hillbilly in NASCAR’s origination myth. Paper
presented at the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
Forman, P. J., & Plymire, D. C. (2003). Lesbian panic? Commodification and transgression in
women’s professional tennis. Paper presented at the American Sociological Associate
meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Plymire, D. C. (2003). “White lightning”: The (in)visible whiteness of NASCAR mythology.
Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
_____. (2002). Qualitative research methods in sport/media analysis. Paper presented at the North
American Society for Sociology of Sport conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
_____. (2001). Natural athletes: Images of Kenyan and Tarahumaran runners in a post-colonial
world. Paper presented at the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, San
Antonio, Texas.
_____. (2001). Polysemy and hypertext: Constructions of white masculinity on Internet sports
sites. Paper presented at the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, San
Antonio, Texas.
_____. (2001). “LSD”, running addiction, and the cultural politics of the 1970s. Paper presented
at the North American Society for Sport History, London, Ontario, Canada.
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_____. (2001). The legend of the Tarahumara: The white man’s Indian and the diseases of
overcivilization. Paper presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
_____. (2000). Rewiring audience studies for the Internet. Paper presented at the North American
Society for Sociology of Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Forman, P. J. & Plymire, D. C. (2000). Amelie Mauresmo’s muscles: The discourse of gender and
sexuality in women’s tennis. Paper presented at the North American Society for
Sociology of Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Plymire, D. C. (2000). Running, heart disease, and the ironic death of Jim Fixx. Paper presented
at the North American Society for Sport History, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Plymire, D. C. & Arnold, E. L. (2000). The Cherokee Indians and the internet. Paper presented
at the Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Plymire, D. C. (1999). “Going primitive”: Rarámuri running and the diseases of overcivilization.
Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Cleveland,
Ohio.
_____. (1999). Good communists and bad communists: Sino-American relations and U.S. news
coverage of sport in the People’s Republic of China, 1984 and 1993. Paper presented at
the North American Society for Sport History, Penn State University.
Plymire, D. C. & Forman, P. J. (1999). Breaking the silence: Lesbian fans, the Internet, and the
sexual politics of women’s sport. Paper presented at the Southeast Women’s Studies
Association, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Plymire, D. C. (1998). The running addiction hypothesis and the moral politics of the 1970s.
Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Las Vegas,
Nevada.
_____. (1998). The big red machine and the bomb: Steroids as a metaphor for nuclear weapons.
Paper presented at the International Society for the Sociology of Sport, Montréal,
Québec, Canada.
_____. (1997). Self and subjectivity: Cultural discourse and the construction of the running
identity. Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Forman, P. J. & Plymire, D. C. (1997). “Is Cheryl Miller a lesbian?” Expressions of sexual
politics in women’s sports. Paper presented at the North American Society for the
Sociology of Sport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Plymire, D. C. (1996). Born to run or born again?: Running and self-discovery in the “Me
Decade.” Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport,
Birmingham, Alabama.
_____. (1994). Drugs or bugs?: Accusations against Chinese women runners in a new world
order. Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport,
Savannah, Georgia.
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Grants
Internal
Grant
Status
Faculty Development, Summer Research Award,
Applied Spring 2004,
$2,200
Funded Summer 2004
Towson College of Graduate Education and Research, $3,300 Applied Spring 2003,
Funded Summer 2003
Academy of Scholars, Young Scholars Program, $1,100, Spring Applied Spring 2003, not
2003
funded
Towson Faculty Research and Development Committee,
Monetary Research Award, $1,200, Fall 2003
Applied Fall 2003, not funded
College of Health Professions, Funds for Scholarly Activities,
$1,200
Applied Fall 2003, not funded
External
Grant
Status
Ken Doherty Memorial Fellowship, Amateur Athletic Foundation Applied October 7, 2004
of Los Angeles, $2,500
Not Funded
Run for Your Life: How Runner’s World Changed the World of
Running.
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Special
Initiative, Humanities and Health Care, $40,000
“Mere Health Does Not Demand This:” Running and Wellness,
1968-1984.
Applied May 1, 2004
Not Funded
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
· North American Society for Sociology of Sport (NASSS)
· North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Manuscript reviewer
· Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
· International Journal of Sport Communication
· International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
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Journal of Sport and Social Issues
National Women’s Studies Association Journal
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Sex Roles
Sociology of Sport Journal
Sport Management Journal
Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal
University of Tennessee Press
Wesleyan University Press
Institutional Service
Ithaca College
· Aesthetic Appreciation Working Group, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
· Curriculum Committee, Fall 2005
· Search Committee, Sport Management, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Towson University
· College Council, College of Health Professions, 2002-2005
o Chair, 2004-2005
· Honors College Board, 2000-2003
· NCAA Compliance Committee, 2000-2003
· President’s New Student Core Program Task Force, 2001
· Undergraduate Research Council, 2003
· Hiring Committee for Kinesiology Department Chair, 2004-2005
· Chair, Kinesiology Graduate Program Development Committee, 2003-2004
· Sport Studies Sub-committee, 2000-2003
· Hiring committee for Sport Studies, 2001-2002
· Sport Management Sub-committee, 2001-2003
Professional Organizations
· Member-at-Large, NASSS Board of Directors, 2001-2003
· Chair, NASSS Book Award Committee, 2003
· Chair, NASSS Barbara Brown Student Paper Award Committee, 2002
· Organizing Committee, Southeast Women’s Studies Association Conference, Boone, NC,
1999
· Student Representative, NASSS Board of Directors, 1995-1997
· Organizing Committee, NASSS Conference, Birmingham, AL, 1996
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Dr. Pamela J. Forman
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
FORMANPJ@uwec.edu
715-836-3039
Dr. Algerian Hart
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Western Illinois University
a-hart2@wiu.edu
702-245-7839
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Dr. Sterling Saddler
Dean, College of Education & Human Services
Western Illinois University
s-saddler@wiu.edu
309-298-1690
Dr. Erskine R. Smith
Associate Dean, College of Education & Human Services
Western Illinois University
er-smith@wiu.edu
309-298-1690