Jerry Gems is a professor and former chairperson of the Health and Physical Education Department. He is the past president of the North American Society for Sport 历史, and the current vice-president of the International Society for the 历史 of Physical Education and Sport. In 2011 - 2012 he was honored with a Fulbright Scholar Award, during which time he taught at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of Malmo, 瑞典. He has also been an invited visiting professor at the National Sports University in Beijing, China. In 2011 he was inducted as an honorary member of the Bangladesh Institute of Sport Sciences. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, East Asian Sport Thoughts: The International Journal for the Sociology of Sport, and is the book reviews editor for the Journal of Sport 历史. He has authored more than 200 publications, including nineteen books. In 2016 he received the international Routledge Award for scholarship. In addition to teaching classes at North Central, he serves as the Sport Studies coordinator for the graduate program and is the faculty mentor to the softball team.
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Sports in American 历史: From Colonization to Globalization (Champaign, IL; Human Kinetics, 2017).
Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016).
Blood and Guts to Glory: A 历史 of Sports (Oslo, Norway: Total Health Publications, 2014), e-book.
Boxing: A Concise 历史 of the Sweet Science (Lanham, MD; Scarecrow Press. 2014).
“Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport,” in Steven Riess, ed., A 美国旅伴 历史 (伊利诺伊州迪卡尔布:约翰·威利 & 儿子，2014)，405-433.
“Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1865-1920),” in Steven Riess, ed., A 美国旅伴 Sport 历史 (迪卡尔布. IL:约翰·威利 & 儿子),32-59.
“Jews, Sport, and the Construction of an American Identity,” in Raanan Rein 大卫·谢宁主编., Muscling In on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the 美洲的形成 (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill).
Sport and the Shaping of Italian American Identity (Syracuse, NY: University of Syracuse Press, 2013).
课程
亲属 150 历史 of Physical Education and Sport
亲属 262 Sport in Modern Society
亲属/SOA 360 Sport in Society
EDN 333 Methods of Teaching: Middle School and High School Physical Education
MALS 538 Sport in a Multicultural World