Thomas M Hunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4220482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas M Hunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunt |
| SIGNATURE | HUNT T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1737-9999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Definition Diets and Deteriorating Masculinity? Bodybuilding Diets in Mid-Century America
In the late 1960s Steve Davis, a young strength athlete turned bodybuilder, prepared for an upcoming photoshoot by consuming nothing but meat and water. Far from unique, Davis represented a new line of bodybuilders who engaged in extreme dietary behaviors to achieve a lean and muscular look. Three decades prior to Davis’ photoshoot, Dave Willoughby, an influential weightlifter and fitness writer, promoted a diet defined by its wholesome foods eat…
Daniel O’Leary and the Sporting Experiences of Irish Immigrants in the United States
During the 1870s, Daniel O’Leary was the biggest sporting star in the United States. The champion race-walker (or pedestrian, to use the language of the times) was renowned for his speed and his endurance, and travelled the country from San Francisco to New York to put on athletic displays for massive crowds. The newspapers held O’Leary up as an American hero, despite the fact that he was a recent immigrant from Ireland. In this article, we exami…
Sporting Exchanges between China and the United States, 1980–1984
Sino-US sporting exchanges between 1980 and 1984 largely paralleled the patterns of the larger bilateral relations between the two nations. The over-politicization of sports by the two governments – and especially by the PRC – created the parallelism. Curiously, scholars of sport and international relations have paid little attention to Sino-US athletic interactions in this period, an oversight that needs to be remedied in light of the reciprocal…
Cold hard cash
This article explores the decline of amateurism in the sport of track-and-field between the years 1968 and 1982. In doing so, it pays particular attention to Cold War politics as well as the role played by shoe companies such as Nike, in facilitating that transformation
Cold War Games
Book Review| April 01 2018 Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy Rider, Toby C. Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. x+242. List of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, photographs. $95.00, hb; $24.95, pb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal o…
Wada and Doping in World Sport
Performance enhancement in sport has a long and controversial history. Although several organizations enacted prohibitions on the subject of doping prior to the Second World War, public scrutiny on the issue remained relatively light until the second half of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1960s, officials passed a number of regulatory measures with the twin goals of protecting the health of athletes and ensuring the fairness of competiti…
Learning the American Way
From 1962 to 1968, the United States Government along with private entities funded the training of athletes from developing nations through a non-profit organization named Sports International. Led by former Peace Corps member David Dichter, Sports International sought to enhance America’s image in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The initial aim of the programme was to train athletes to compete at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The theory behi…
Projection and Reception
As World War II gave way to the Cold War, culture came to be an important component of East-West political jockeying. Policy makers in Washington sought to use sport as part of a broader image building campaign that employed dancers, musicians, and artists. Previous scholarship on athletic diplomacy has centered largely on the bureaucratic processes that propped it up. How athletic forays were interpreted abroad, by contrast, has been relatively …
Drugs, the Law, and the Downfall of Dancer's Image at the 1968 Kentucky Derby
The disqualification of Dancer's Image at the 1968 Kentucky Derby for the presence of a prohibited substance reveals much about the human–animal relationship. The horse was, on the one hand, depicted in anthropomorphic terms as an honourable competitor unjustly stripped of a victory. At the same time, Dancer's Image was treated as simply a piece of physical property. In short, human conceptions of domesticated animals are dichotomous in nature.Ke…
The Health Risks of Doping during the Cold War
This article compares East Germany's Cold War-era approach to doping to that of the USA's in terms of their respective impacts on medical risk. Although deserving of criticism on many levels, the GDR doping programme featured a number of safeguards designed to minimise medical dangers. Unlike their East German counterparts, American governmental units were not directly involved in the administration of performance-enhancing substances. The US app…
The International Anti-Doping Movement and Unesco
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) played a major role in the development of contemporary anti-doping policy. Throughout its existence, and especially since the 1970s, UNESCO has viewed sport as an educational tool. Though it acknowledged the unique problems that drug use in sport presented, UNESCO was reticent to take a leading role in creating and enacting global policy regarding the issue. However, UN…
Tarnished Rings
Book Review| April 01 2013 Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal Wenn, Stephen, Robert Barney, and Scott Martyn. Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal. Sports and Entertainment series. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Pp. 320. Photographs, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt U…
The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
Joseph M. Turrini, The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010). Pp. 288. £18.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07707-4 For many decades, amateur prin
The Diplomatic Context of Doping in the Former German Democratic Republic
Paying particular attention to political dynamics within the Eastern-bloc, this article seeks to outline the diplomatic context of what remains the most notorious episode of state-level doping in modern sport history: the cold war-era doping program run by the German Democratic Republic's Stasi national security police and intelligence organisation. To do so, it aims to integrate archival research on the subject with high-level geopolitical analy…
Advancing the Ball
Book Review| October 01 2012 Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL Duru, N. Jeremi. Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 224. Foreword by Tony Dungy, notes, and index. $24.95 pb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Sports Justice
Book Review| July 01 2012 Sports Justice: The Law and the Business of Sports Abrams, Roger A. Sports Justice: The Law and the Business of Sports. Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 2010. Pp. 228. Illustrations. $35.00 cb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt University Of Texas At Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (2): 333–334. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.2.333 Ci…
Dissertations Survey
Research Article| October 01 2012 Dissertations Survey Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (3): 581–586. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.3.581 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas M. Hunt; Dissertations Survey. Journal of Sport History 1 January 2012;…
The doping of athletes in the former East Germany
A number of prominent writers on the social history and policy of sports doping in the former East Germany have compared that system with the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation. This article draws from a range of primary and secondary sources to discuss and challenge the Nazi comparison argument. We argue that while there were many cases of secretive abuse and experimentation that led to severe side-effects, there are also examples of ath…
Drug Games
On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's thoroughly researched, chronological history of the mode…
The Individual and the State
The literature on East Germany, sport and performance-enhancing drugs emphasizes the power of the state in totalitarian society and the abuse of athletes. Doping is referred to as a system or machine, which was state-sponsored, mandatory, secretive, abusive and corrupt. This fits easily with both political understandings of East German society and understandings of the cultural values of sport. In this article, we map the flawed and simplistic mo…
Saint or Sinner
This article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC's fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him inthe mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended t…
The President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematisation of Children's Play in America
This article examines the influence of physical education philosophies on the shift in policies aimed at augmenting the physical fitness of children in the United States during the Cold War. While the existing historiography on federal sport initiatives during this period astutely recognises the broader shift in focus from mass fitness programmes during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to elite sport development under Nixon and Ford, th…
Robert Edelman’s Serious Fun and the History and Historiography of Soviet Sport
Book Review| October 01 2011 Robert Edelman’s Serious Fun and the History and Historiography of Soviet Sport Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (3): 465–473. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.3.465 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fa…
Dissertations Survey
Research Article| July 01 2010 Dissertations Survey Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (2): 283–285. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.2.283 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas M. Hunt; Dissertations Survey. Journal of Sport History 1 January 2010; 37…
Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympic medals race
The Olympics were a site of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. The successes of the Soviet Union eventually captured the attention of American policy-makers, who responded with the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. This article argues that the poor performance of the American team at the 1972 Olympic Games provided a ‘focusing event’ out of which the act emerged. It will further argue that the act's focus on elite athletic…
Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympic medals race
The Olympics were a site of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. The successes of the Soviet Union eventually captured the attention of American policy-makers, who responded with the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. This article argues that the poor performance of the American team at the 1972 Olympic Games provided a ‘focusing event’ out of which the act emerged. It will further argue that the act's focus on elite athletic…
The Individual and the State
The literature on East Germany, sport and performance-enhancing drugs emphasizes the power of the state in totalitarian society and the abuse of athletes. Doping is referred to as a system or machine, which was state-sponsored, mandatory, secretive, abusive and corrupt. This fits easily with both political understandings of East German society and understandings of the cultural values of sport. In this article, we map the flawed and simplistic mo…
The Health Risks of Doping during the Cold War
This article compares East Germany's Cold War-era approach to doping to that of the USA's in terms of their respective impacts on medical risk. Although deserving of criticism on many levels, the GDR doping programme featured a number of safeguards designed to minimise medical dangers. Unlike their East German counterparts, American governmental units were not directly involved in the administration of performance-enhancing substances. The US app…
The International Anti-Doping Movement and Unesco
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) played a major role in the development of contemporary anti-doping policy. Throughout its existence, and especially since the 1970s, UNESCO has viewed sport as an educational tool. Though it acknowledged the unique problems that drug use in sport presented, UNESCO was reticent to take a leading role in creating and enacting global policy regarding the issue. However, UN…
The President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematisation of Children's Play in America
This article examines the influence of physical education philosophies on the shift in policies aimed at augmenting the physical fitness of children in the United States during the Cold War. While the existing historiography on federal sport initiatives during this period astutely recognises the broader shift in focus from mass fitness programmes during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to elite sport development under Nixon and Ford, th…
Learning the American Way
From 1962 to 1968, the United States Government along with private entities funded the training of athletes from developing nations through a non-profit organization named Sports International. Led by former Peace Corps member David Dichter, Sports International sought to enhance America’s image in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The initial aim of the programme was to train athletes to compete at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The theory behi…
The doping of athletes in the former East Germany
A number of prominent writers on the social history and policy of sports doping in the former East Germany have compared that system with the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation. This article draws from a range of primary and secondary sources to discuss and challenge the Nazi comparison argument. We argue that while there were many cases of secretive abuse and experimentation that led to severe side-effects, there are also examples of ath…
Saint or Sinner
This article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC's fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him inthe mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended t…
Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympic medals race
The Olympics were a site of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. The successes of the Soviet Union eventually captured the attention of American policy-makers, who responded with the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. This article argues that the poor performance of the American team at the 1972 Olympic Games provided a ‘focusing event’ out of which the act emerged. It will further argue that the act's focus on elite athletic…
Dissertations Survey
Research Article| July 01 2010 Dissertations Survey Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (2): 283–285. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.2.283 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas M. Hunt; Dissertations Survey. Journal of Sport History 1 January 2010; 37…
Drug Games
On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's thoroughly researched, chronological history of the mode…
The Individual and the State
The literature on East Germany, sport and performance-enhancing drugs emphasizes the power of the state in totalitarian society and the abuse of athletes. Doping is referred to as a system or machine, which was state-sponsored, mandatory, secretive, abusive and corrupt. This fits easily with both political understandings of East German society and understandings of the cultural values of sport. In this article, we map the flawed and simplistic mo…
Saint or Sinner
This article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC's fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him inthe mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended t…
The President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematisation of Children's Play in America
This article examines the influence of physical education philosophies on the shift in policies aimed at augmenting the physical fitness of children in the United States during the Cold War. While the existing historiography on federal sport initiatives during this period astutely recognises the broader shift in focus from mass fitness programmes during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to elite sport development under Nixon and Ford, th…
Robert Edelman’s Serious Fun and the History and Historiography of Soviet Sport
Book Review| October 01 2011 Robert Edelman’s Serious Fun and the History and Historiography of Soviet Sport Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (3): 465–473. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.3.465 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fa…
The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
Joseph M. Turrini, The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010). Pp. 288. £18.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07707-4 For many decades, amateur prin
The Diplomatic Context of Doping in the Former German Democratic Republic
Paying particular attention to political dynamics within the Eastern-bloc, this article seeks to outline the diplomatic context of what remains the most notorious episode of state-level doping in modern sport history: the cold war-era doping program run by the German Democratic Republic's Stasi national security police and intelligence organisation. To do so, it aims to integrate archival research on the subject with high-level geopolitical analy…
Advancing the Ball
Book Review| October 01 2012 Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL Duru, N. Jeremi. Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 224. Foreword by Tony Dungy, notes, and index. $24.95 pb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Sports Justice
Book Review| July 01 2012 Sports Justice: The Law and the Business of Sports Abrams, Roger A. Sports Justice: The Law and the Business of Sports. Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 2010. Pp. 228. Illustrations. $35.00 cb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt University Of Texas At Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (2): 333–334. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.2.333 Ci…
Dissertations Survey
Research Article| October 01 2012 Dissertations Survey Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (3): 581–586. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.3.581 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas M. Hunt; Dissertations Survey. Journal of Sport History 1 January 2012;…
The doping of athletes in the former East Germany
A number of prominent writers on the social history and policy of sports doping in the former East Germany have compared that system with the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation. This article draws from a range of primary and secondary sources to discuss and challenge the Nazi comparison argument. We argue that while there were many cases of secretive abuse and experimentation that led to severe side-effects, there are also examples of ath…
The International Anti-Doping Movement and Unesco
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) played a major role in the development of contemporary anti-doping policy. Throughout its existence, and especially since the 1970s, UNESCO has viewed sport as an educational tool. Though it acknowledged the unique problems that drug use in sport presented, UNESCO was reticent to take a leading role in creating and enacting global policy regarding the issue. However, UN…
Tarnished Rings
Book Review| April 01 2013 Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal Wenn, Stephen, Robert Barney, and Scott Martyn. Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal. Sports and Entertainment series. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Pp. 320. Photographs, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt U…
Drugs, the Law, and the Downfall of Dancer's Image at the 1968 Kentucky Derby
The disqualification of Dancer's Image at the 1968 Kentucky Derby for the presence of a prohibited substance reveals much about the human–animal relationship. The horse was, on the one hand, depicted in anthropomorphic terms as an honourable competitor unjustly stripped of a victory. At the same time, Dancer's Image was treated as simply a piece of physical property. In short, human conceptions of domesticated animals are dichotomous in nature.Ke…
The Health Risks of Doping during the Cold War
This article compares East Germany's Cold War-era approach to doping to that of the USA's in terms of their respective impacts on medical risk. Although deserving of criticism on many levels, the GDR doping programme featured a number of safeguards designed to minimise medical dangers. Unlike their East German counterparts, American governmental units were not directly involved in the administration of performance-enhancing substances. The US app…
Projection and Reception
As World War II gave way to the Cold War, culture came to be an important component of East-West political jockeying. Policy makers in Washington sought to use sport as part of a broader image building campaign that employed dancers, musicians, and artists. Previous scholarship on athletic diplomacy has centered largely on the bureaucratic processes that propped it up. How athletic forays were interpreted abroad, by contrast, has been relatively …
Wada and Doping in World Sport
Performance enhancement in sport has a long and controversial history. Although several organizations enacted prohibitions on the subject of doping prior to the Second World War, public scrutiny on the issue remained relatively light until the second half of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1960s, officials passed a number of regulatory measures with the twin goals of protecting the health of athletes and ensuring the fairness of competiti…
Learning the American Way
From 1962 to 1968, the United States Government along with private entities funded the training of athletes from developing nations through a non-profit organization named Sports International. Led by former Peace Corps member David Dichter, Sports International sought to enhance America’s image in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The initial aim of the programme was to train athletes to compete at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The theory behi…
Cold hard cash
This article explores the decline of amateurism in the sport of track-and-field between the years 1968 and 1982. In doing so, it pays particular attention to Cold War politics as well as the role played by shoe companies such as Nike, in facilitating that transformation
Cold War Games
Book Review| April 01 2018 Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy Rider, Toby C. Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. x+242. List of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, photographs. $95.00, hb; $24.95, pb. Thomas M. Hunt Thomas M. Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal o…
Sporting Exchanges between China and the United States, 1980–1984
Sino-US sporting exchanges between 1980 and 1984 largely paralleled the patterns of the larger bilateral relations between the two nations. The over-politicization of sports by the two governments – and especially by the PRC – created the parallelism. Curiously, scholars of sport and international relations have paid little attention to Sino-US athletic interactions in this period, an oversight that needs to be remedied in light of the reciprocal…
Definition Diets and Deteriorating Masculinity? Bodybuilding Diets in Mid-Century America
In the late 1960s Steve Davis, a young strength athlete turned bodybuilder, prepared for an upcoming photoshoot by consuming nothing but meat and water. Far from unique, Davis represented a new line of bodybuilders who engaged in extreme dietary behaviors to achieve a lean and muscular look. Three decades prior to Davis’ photoshoot, Dave Willoughby, an influential weightlifter and fitness writer, promoted a diet defined by its wholesome foods eat…
Daniel O’Leary and the Sporting Experiences of Irish Immigrants in the United States
During the 1870s, Daniel O’Leary was the biggest sporting star in the United States. The champion race-walker (or pedestrian, to use the language of the times) was renowned for his speed and his endurance, and travelled the country from San Francisco to New York to put on athletic displays for massive crowds. The newspapers held O’Leary up as an American hero, despite the fact that he was a recent immigrant from Ireland. In this article, we exami…
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