From Performance to Participation: The Origins of the Fit Nation

Transatlantica (France) March 2021

Navigating Social Media as an Academic

The Academic's Handbook, 4th Edition Duke University Press, 2021
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Review: The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II by Roger L. Geiger

Pacific Historical Review November 2016
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Shouldn’t You Be in California?

BOOM California January 9, 2018
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Working on the Work of Working Out

Public Seminar January 3, 2018
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Review: CAMPBELL F. SCRIBNER, The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy.

American Historical Review October 2017
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Thanks, Gender!: An Intellectual History of the Gym

in eds., Raymond Haberski and Andrew Hartman, American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, Cornell University Press, 2018.
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When Wellness is a Dirty Word

Chronicle Review May 1, 2016
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Mission High and the Education Culture War

Los Angeles Review of Books April 10, 2016
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REVIEW ESSAY: Do We Need Wonder Woman?

Public Books, May 15, 2015
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REVIEW ESSAY: “Petrzela on Perlstein, THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE: THE FALL OF NIXON AND THE RISE OF REAGAN”

H-Net (1960s), April 10, 2015
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HealthClass2.0: Breaking Barriers Through Campus-Based Civic Engagement

Anthropology Now, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2015.
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“Sex Education,” in Hunt, Thomas Carper, James C., et al, The Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, SAGE Publications, 2010.

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“Multiculturalism,” in Ness, Immanuel, ed., The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell, Vol. IV, 2013

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REVIEW ESSAY: “Robin Jensen, Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Sex Education, 1870-1924”

Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 22, No. 2, May 2013

“The Siren Song of Yoga”: Sex, Spirituality and the Limits of American Countercultures

Pacific Historical Review, August 2020
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