Jeffrey B Kurtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey B Kurtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurtz |
| SIGNATURE | KURTZ J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6807-516X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Allen Iverson and the Radical Politics of Black Belonging
Allen Iverson’s Hall of Fame basketball career and its aftermath continue to fascinate students of sport, race, and culture. This essay examines Iverson’s on-and-off court stylings to argue for the radical character at both the heart of his play and his professional example. Through animated styles of play and speech suggestive of a catalog of aesthetic and moral resistance, he stewarded an ethic of Black belonging, modeling a politically charged…
Sport, Social Justice, and the Limits of Dissent After George Floyd
Michael Butterworth’s lead article in the August-October special issue of Communication & Sport raised important insights about unity within sport. This reply argues that those insights were encumbered by a blind spot: Where Butterworth critiqued examples of unity that minimized the agonistic spirit of sport, he gave free pass to calls for unity on behalf of social justice. My reply works through examples of dissent from protests that marked the …
With Malice Towards All? Moral Authority, Violence, and the (Affective) Discipline of Basketball (Bodies)
This article examines National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern’s press conference on November 21, 2004, in response to the brawl between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers 2 days earlier, during which he announced the suspensions of nine players. Specifically, I illuminate the ways the tropes of authority and discipline converged to fashion a rhetorical site of absolute professionalism that profoundly altered understandings of…
War Had Transformed Them All
Book Review| December 01 2016 War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War The Abolitionist Imagination. By Andrew Delbanco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 205. $24.95 cloth.American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era. By David W. Blight. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011; pp. 1 + 314; $27.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. B…
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
Jeffrey B. KurtzDenison University© 2014, Jeffrey B. Kurtz
Perspectives on university teaching in the US
Higher education in the United States is in crisis. Though powerful, the financial maelstrom that has consumed many institutions may not be the vortex of most significance. We argue that colleges and universities have forsaken their fundamental mission and purposes, and particularly the role of religion in those purposes. We first examine three primary arguments about the relationship between religion and higher education: what may be loosely cha…
Empire of Sacrifice
Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (New York: New York University Press, 2010), v + 257 pp. $35.00 (cloth). There is something wonderfully disturbing about vi
Condemning Webster
Emerson's example as a reformer invites continued disagreement. Few studies, however, have offered sustained rhetorical investigations of his antislavery speeches and writings, and extant scholarship has generally slighted the significance of audience to these persuasive efforts. Edwin Black's “The Second Persona” provides the orientation that guides efforts to locate the audience in Emerson's 7 March 1854 “Fugitive Slave Law” in order to demonst…
Sport, Social Justice, and the Limits of Dissent After George Floyd
Michael Butterworth’s lead article in the August-October special issue of Communication & Sport raised important insights about unity within sport. This reply argues that those insights were encumbered by a blind spot: Where Butterworth critiqued examples of unity that minimized the agonistic spirit of sport, he gave free pass to calls for unity on behalf of social justice. My reply works through examples of dissent from protests that marked the …
War Had Transformed Them All
Book Review| December 01 2016 War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War The Abolitionist Imagination. By Andrew Delbanco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 205. $24.95 cloth.American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era. By David W. Blight. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011; pp. 1 + 314; $27.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. B…
Condemning Webster
Emerson's example as a reformer invites continued disagreement. Few studies, however, have offered sustained rhetorical investigations of his antislavery speeches and writings, and extant scholarship has generally slighted the significance of audience to these persuasive efforts. Edwin Black's “The Second Persona” provides the orientation that guides efforts to locate the audience in Emerson's 7 March 1854 “Fugitive Slave Law” in order to demonst…
Perspectives on university teaching in the US
Higher education in the United States is in crisis. Though powerful, the financial maelstrom that has consumed many institutions may not be the vortex of most significance. We argue that colleges and universities have forsaken their fundamental mission and purposes, and particularly the role of religion in those purposes. We first examine three primary arguments about the relationship between religion and higher education: what may be loosely cha…
Empire of Sacrifice
Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (New York: New York University Press, 2010), v + 257 pp. $35.00 (cloth). There is something wonderfully disturbing about vi
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
Jeffrey B. KurtzDenison University© 2014, Jeffrey B. Kurtz
War Had Transformed Them All
Book Review| December 01 2016 War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War The Abolitionist Imagination. By Andrew Delbanco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 205. $24.95 cloth.American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era. By David W. Blight. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011; pp. 1 + 314; $27.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. B…
With Malice Towards All? Moral Authority, Violence, and the (Affective) Discipline of Basketball (Bodies)
This article examines National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern’s press conference on November 21, 2004, in response to the brawl between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers 2 days earlier, during which he announced the suspensions of nine players. Specifically, I illuminate the ways the tropes of authority and discipline converged to fashion a rhetorical site of absolute professionalism that profoundly altered understandings of…
Sport, Social Justice, and the Limits of Dissent After George Floyd
Michael Butterworth’s lead article in the August-October special issue of Communication & Sport raised important insights about unity within sport. This reply argues that those insights were encumbered by a blind spot: Where Butterworth critiqued examples of unity that minimized the agonistic spirit of sport, he gave free pass to calls for unity on behalf of social justice. My reply works through examples of dissent from protests that marked the …
Allen Iverson and the Radical Politics of Black Belonging
Allen Iverson’s Hall of Fame basketball career and its aftermath continue to fascinate students of sport, race, and culture. This essay examines Iverson’s on-and-off court stylings to argue for the radical character at both the heart of his play and his professional example. Through animated styles of play and speech suggestive of a catalog of aesthetic and moral resistance, he stewarded an ethic of Black belonging, modeling a politically charged…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · History (3 works)