Rita Liberti, Ph.D., Chair KPE

History, Sociology, Philosophy

rita.liberti@csueastbay.edu

• KPE 2700 Gender & Sport
• KPE 3700 History of Sport and Physical Education
• KPE 3740 Philosophical Foundations of Sport
• KPE 3750 Sport in Society
• KPE 6430 Seminar History of Sport
• KPE 6460 Seminar Philosophy of Sport

• Sept 2004 - Associate Professor, Dept of KPE CSU-East Bay
• Jan - May 1998 - Lecturer, Dept Health & Human Performance, Iowa State University
• 1991-1998 - Teaching Assistant, Dept of Sport Studies, University of Iowa
• 1986-1990 - Instructor, Dept of Humanities, Firelands College, Bowling Green State University

• 1991-1998 - Ph.D. University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
• 1984-1986 - M.Ed. Slippery Rock University (Slippery Rock, PA)
• 1980-1984 - B.S. Edinboro University (Edinboro, PA)

• Liberti, R. (2008) Wilma Rudolph: Modernity and the Olympic Champion. In M. Whitaker (Ed.), African American Icons of Sport. Greenwood Press.
• Craig, M. & Liberti, R. (2007) ³Cause thatıs what girls doı: The making of a feminized gym.² Gender and Society, 21(5), 676-699.
• Liberti, R. (2007). Beyond entertainment value: Exploring the intersectionality of race, gender, physicality, and sport. In J. L. Figueroa, B. Baker, & B. Mosupyoe (Eds.), Introduction to Ethnic Studies (2nd ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 435-444.
• Liberti, R. (2004) Fostering Community Consciousness: The Role of Womenıs Basketball at Black Colleges And Universities, 1900-1950, in Charles K. Ross, ed., Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field (Oxford, MS: The University of Mississippi Press), 40-58.
• Liberti, R., Swantek, D., Kunz, M., & St. John, A. (2004). ŒForbidden Narrativesı: Exploring the Use of Critical Autobiography in a Graduate Sport Sociology Course. Quest, 56(2), 190-207.

• The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
• The North American Society for Sport Sociology (NASSS)
• Western Society for Physical Education of College Women (WSPECW)