Dr Gary Osmond
BA (Hons) (Mt Allison); BEd (Toronto); PhD (Qld)
- Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity
Contact details
Rm 522
Phone: (+61) 7 334 67591
Fax: (+61) 7 3365 6877
Email: gosmond@hms.uq.edu.au
Background
Gary gained his PhD in the field of sport history in 2006 from the University of Queensland, following joint enrolment in the School of Human Movement Studies and the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics. His dissertation title was Nimble Savages: Myth, Race, Social Memory and Australian Aquatic Sport. Dr Osmond teaches in the socio-cultural dimensions of sport and physical activities.
Research Interests
Gary has a range of research interests in the historical and contemporary dimensions of sport. These include Australian and Pacific aquatic sport, racial stereotyping, sport myth, social memory and sporting histories beyond the written word.
Selected Publications
For a list of Gary's publications, please refer to the UQreSEARCHers website.
Gary Osmond, "Reflecting Materiality: Reading Sport History through the Lens". Rethinking History. In press: accepted 13 February 2007.
Murray G. Phillips, Mark E. O'Neill & Gary Osmond, "Broadening Horizons in Sport History: Films, Photographs and Monuments", Journal of Sport History. In press: expected Vol 34, No. 1, Spring 2007; accepted 19 January 2007.
Gary Osmond, "Review of 'In the Game: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity', Eric Anderson." Journal of Sport History, Vol. 33, No. 1, (Spring 2006): 94-95.
Gary Osmond, "Review of 'The Bondi Lifesaver: A History of an Australian Icon', Sean Brawley." Journal of Sport History. In press: accepted March 2007.
Gary Osmond, ‘Duke Kahanamoku', in Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, ed. John J. Hattendorf (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), Vol 2, 291-92.
Gary Osmond & Murray G. Phillips "'Look at That Kid Crawling!': Race, Myth and the 'Crawl' Stroke." Australian Historical Studies 37, no. 127 (April 2006): 43-62.
Gary Osmond, Murray G. Phillips & Mark O'Neill. "'Putting up Your Dukes': Statues, Social Memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku." International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 23, no. 1 (February 2006): 82-103.
Gary Osmond & Murray G. Phillips, “‘The Bloke with a Stroke': Alick Wickham, the ‘Crawl' and Social Memory”, The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2004, 309-324.
Gary Osmond, “Shimmering Waters: Swimming, Autobiography and Social Memory”, Sporting Traditions: Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 2003, 63-71.
Murray G. Phillips and Gary Osmond, “Sam Herford”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 17. In press (expected publication 2007).
Gary Osmond, 'Alick Wickham', 'Francis Wickham', 'Harry Wickham', 'Edward Wickham' - four biographical entries commissioned for publication in the Solomon Islands National Historical Dictionary. In press: scheduled for publication 2008; accepted October 2006.
Gary Osmond, nine biographical entries commissioned for publication in the Encyclopedia of Australian Rugby, ed. Maxwell Howell. In press: scheduled for publication 2008; accepted February 2007.