Aaron Haberman

Contact Information

Education

• B.A., History, Washington and Lee University
• M.A., History, University of South Carolina
• Ph.D., History, University of South Carolina

Professional/Academic Experience

• Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado (2020-present)
• Associate Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado (2014-2020)
• Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado (2011-2014)
• Lecturer of History, University of Northern Colorado (2007-2011)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina (2006-2007)

Research/Areas of Interest

Sports in 20^th Century America; Rise of American Conservatism; Role of Religion in Modern Politics. Currently working on a project on the long-distance running boom of the 1970s and the ways in which the discourse on running reflected and shaped the larger socio-cultural developments of that era.

Publications/Creative Works

“‘We’re All Professionals Now’: Frank Shorter, Deregulation, and the Battle to end ‘Shamateurism,’ in the 1970s.” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 36, 15-16 (2020): 1414-1432.

“Escape and Pursuit: Contrasting Visions of the 1970s Long Distance Running Boom in American Popular Culture.” Sports History Review, 48, 1 (Spring 2017):1-17.

“Thousands of Solitary Runners Coming Together: Individualism and Communitarianism in the 1970s Running Boom.” Journal of Sport History, 44, 1 (Spring 2017): 35-49.

“Tracing the Limits of the Reagan Revolution: The Christian Right and the Fate of School Prayer in the Age of Fracture, 1982-1984,” The Journal of the Historical Society 13:4 (December 2013): 491-528.

Review of David George Surdham, The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Sport in American History. October 2015.

Review of Carolyn Dupont, Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975, New York: New York University Press, 2013. The Journal of Southern History 80:4 (November 2014): 1016-1017.

Review of Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism, New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. Historically Speaking 12:3 (June 2011): 8-9.

Honors and Awards

• Provost Fund for Faculty Scholarship and Professional Development, University of Northern Colorado. (2014)
• HSS Faculty Reassignment Award for Research, Scholarship, and Collective Works, University of Northern Colorado. (2014)
• University of Northern Colorado Disability Resource Center Awardee for Outstanding Accommodation Assistance to Students with Disabilities. (2012)
• Provost Fund for Faculty Scholarship and Professional Development, University of Northern Colorado. (2009)
• Provost Fund for Faculty Scholarship and Professional Development, University of Northern Colorado. (2008)

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