Jeffrey Hill

Department of Historical & Social Studies

Contact Details
Room: Clephan 3.06D
Telephone: 0116 207 8316
Fax: 0116 250 6130
E-mail: JHill@dmu.ac.uk

Jeff Hill has worked at DMU since 2001 as Director of the International Centre for Sport History and Culture. He relinquished this post in November 2007, but remains in the Centre as a Professor. He previously worked at Nottingham Trent University where he was Head of the Department of International Studies, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of British Columbia (1994) and Visiting Professor in European Studies at Columbus State University, Georgian, USA (2006).

His academic interests are in the areas of sport and recreation, popular culture, and historiography and theory, principally in a British and European twentieth-century context. His most recent publications are Sport and the Literary Imagination (Peter Lang, 2006), and Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-century Britain (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002). He has also contributed several articles and book chapters on themes in sport, and is currently working on studies of ‘Abide With Me’ in the context of post-First World War remembrance, and the fictional sporting hero Alf Tupper, the ‘Tough of the Track’. His Sport: an Introduction is due from Palgrave/Macmillan in 2008.

Hill gave the John R Betts Honor Address to the North American Society for Sport History in 2004, and was joint editor of the journal Sport in History from 2001 to 2005.

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