Peter Donnelly Associate Professor Faculty of Physical Education and Health 55 Harbord St. Toronto, ON M5S 2W6 (416-946-5071 peter.donnelly@utoronto.ca

Degrees
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1980
M.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1976
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York, 1973
Certificate in Education, Physical Education and Geography, City of Birmingham College of Education, England, 1967

Expertise
Sport subcultures
Children in high performance sport
Sport and space
Sociology of risk taking
Application of ‘Cultural studies’ theory and tesearch to the study of sport and leisure practices
Sport and Social Inequality
Sport Policy and Politics

Books
Coakley, J. & P. Donnelly (eds.) (1999). Inside Sports: Using sociology to understand athletes and sport experiences. London: Routledge, 248 pp.

Donnelly, P. (ed.) (2000). Taking Sport Seriously: Social Issues in Canadian Sport (2nd edition, substantially revised). Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 248pp.

Coakley, J. & P. Donnelly (2004). Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies (1st Canadian edition). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 546 pp.

Chapters
Donnelly, P. (2003). “Sport and social theory.” Sport and Society edited by B. Houlihan. London: Sage, pp. 11-27.

Donnelly, P. (2003). “The Great Divide: Sport Climbing vs. Adventure Climbing.” To the Extreme: Alternative Sports Inside and Out edited by R. Rinehart & S. Sydnor. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 291-304.

Birrell, S. & Donnelly, P. (2004). “Reclaiming Goffman: Erving Goffman’s Influence on the Sociology of Sport.” In, R. Giulianotti (ed.), Sport and Modern Social Theorists. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-64.

Donnelly, P., (2004). “Playing with Gravity: Mountains and Mountaineering.” In, P. Vertinsky & J. Bale (eds.), Sites of Sport: Space, Place, Experience. London: Routledge, pp. 131-144.

Johnson, J. & P. Donnelly, (2004). In their own words: Athletic administrators, coaches, and athletes at two universities discuss hazing policy initiatives. In, J. Johnson & M. Homan (eds.), Making the Team: Inside the World of Sport Initiations and Hazing. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, pp. 132-154.

Donnelly, P. (2004). “Mo Anthoine.” Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press [print and on-line versions].

Donnelly, P. (2004). “Dougal Haston.” Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press [print and on-line versions].

Donnelly, P. (2004). “Tom Patey.” Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press [print and on-line versions].

Donnelly, P. (2004). “Don Whillans.” Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press [print and on-line versions].

Donnelly, P., (2004). “Sport and risk culture.” In, K. Young (ed.), Sporting Bodies, Damaged Selves: Sociological Studies of Sports-Related Injury. London: Elsevier, pp. 29-57.

Donnelly, P. (2004). “Mountain climbing.” In, G. Cross (ed.). Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America (vol. 2). New York: Charles Scribner’s & Sons, pp. 31-34.

Donnelly, P. (2004). “Rock climbing.” In, G. Cross (ed.). Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America (vol. 2). New York: Charles Scribner’s & Sons, pp. 218-221.

Donnelly, P. (with J. Coakley) (2004). Recreation and youth development: What we know. In, B. Kidd & J. Phillips (eds.), From Enforcement and Prevention to Civic Engagement: Research on Community Safety. Toronto: Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, pp. 156-167.

Greenberg, J., G. Knight, P. Donnelly & M. MacNeill (2005). “Negotiating news: Structural constraints and strategic inaction in television coverage of the Olympics.” In, D. Pawluch, W. Shaffir & C. Miall & (eds.), Doing Ethnography: Researching Everyday Life. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, pp. 288-299.

Donnelly, P. (2005). Interpretive sociology. In, D. Levinson & K. Christensen (eds.), Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport. Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Publishing, pp. 832-836.

Donnelly, P. & L. Petherick (2006). Workers’ playtime?: Child labour at the extremes of the sporting spectrum. In, D. McArdle & R. Giulianotti (eds.), Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights. London: Routledge, pp. 9-29.

Donnelly, P. (2006). Who’s fair game?: Sport, sexual harassment and abuse. In, P. White & K. Young (eds.), Sport and Gender in Canada (2nd ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 279-301.

Donnelly, P. & Harvey, J. (2006). Social class and gender: Intersections in sport and physical activity. In, P. White & K. Young (eds.), Sport and Gender in Canada (2nd ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 95-119.

Donnelly, P. (2006). The sociology of sport. In, C. Bryant & D. Peck (eds.), 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook (vol. 2). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 205-213, 495-497.

Donnelly, P. (2007). Sport as work. In, G. Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 4708-4710. Also at Blackwell Reference Online: http://www.blackwellreference.com/ or www.sociologyencyclopedia.com

Donnelly, P. (2007). Sport culture and subcultures. In, G. Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 4677-4680. Also at: http://www.blackwellreference.com/ or www.sociologyencyclopedia.com

Donnelly, P. (2007). Subcultures. In, D. Malcolm (ed.), Dictionary of Sports Studies. London: Sage.

Recent Journal Articles
Donnelly, P. & L. Petherick (2004). Workers’ playtime?: Child labour at the extremes of the sporting spectrum. Sport in Society, 7(3), 301-321.

Knight, G., MacNeill, M. & Donnelly, P. (2005). The disappointment game: Narratives of Olympic failure in Canada and New Zealand. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40(1), 25-51.

Donnelly, P. & Kidd, B. (2006). Moral authority and the IOC: Steps for the future. Japan Journal of Sport Sociology, 12, pp. 15-24.

Donnelly, P. & B.Kidd (2006). Achieving human rights in and through sport. ICSSPE Bulletin, 48, September www.icsspe.org-Bulletin

Donnelly, P. (2006). Sport and children’s rights. ICSSPE Bulletin, 48, September www.icsspe.org-Bulletin

Harvey, J., M. Lévesque & P. Donnelly (2007). Sport volunteerism and social capital. Sociology of Sport Journal, 24(2): 206-223.

Knight, G., Neverson, N., MacNeill, M. and Donnelly, P. (2007). The weight of expectation: Cathy Freeman, legacy, reconciliation and the Sydney Olympics – A Canadian perspective. International Journal of the History of Sport, 23(3), pp.

Other
Editor, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2003-06 (Vols. 39-41)

Editor, Sociology of Sport Journal, 1990-94 (Vols. 7-11)

Sociology Section Editor, Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, 1988-93

Member, Advisory Committee, Centre for Olympic Studies, Loughborough

University, UK (2004- President, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (2000); President-Elect, 1999; Past-President, 2001 General Secretary, International Sociology of Sport Association (1984-1990)

Member, National Association for Youth Sport Administrators Advisory Board

(2002- International Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, (2006- )

Recent Supervised Theses
Yuka Nakamura (MSc) “Finding a Way, Finding the Self: The Journeys of Nine Physical Education Students Pursuing ‘Non Traditional’ Paths.” 2003-04.

Parissa Safai (PhD Senate) “A Critical Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Institutionalization of Sport Medicine in Canada.” 2004-05