CSSOR Robert K. Barney Graduate Student Essay Award

The CSSOR Graduate Student Essay Award honors the profound contribution of Robert K. Barney to the field of Olympic studies by annually awarding an international prize to one graduate student (Masters or Doctoral candidates) who submits the most outstanding piece of original research in the area of Olympic studies.

Past recipients:

2020               Zachary R. Bigalke, Penn State University, “Wintertime Mercenaries: Foreign-Born Athletes at the Winter Olympics, 1924-2018.”

2021               Shannon Scovel, University of Maryland, “Men’s stories, women’s emotions and the “Inequality” Games: A feminist analysis of media objectivity and the 2012 Olympic media coverage in The Times.”

2022                James Alexander Ivey, University of California, San Diego, “Rhodesian Readmission and the Decolonisation of the National Olympic Committee of Zimbabwe.”

2023                Cam Mallett, Penn State University, “Branding Olympic Idealism: The Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association’s Commercial Sojourn in Hattiesburg, Mississippi Before the 1996 Atlanta Games.”

2024                Zoe Pollock, University of Georgia, “Multiple Parks in One?: Social Sustainability of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London – Cohesion, Inclusion, and Economic Regeneration.”