Brenda Elsey

Brenda Elsey studies Latin American political and pop culture history in the twentieth century, in addition to gender, social theory, and Pan-Americanism. She is a senior editor for Oxford University Press’ Research Essays in Latin American History: Southern Cone with Jessica Stites Mor, and is editing an issue of Radical History Review titled “Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport” with Peter Alegi and Amy Chazkel. She is currently working on a monograph about the Pan-American games.

Elsey’s publications include: Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth Century Chile (University of Texas, 2011), “As the World is My Witness:’ Popular Culture and the Chilean Solidarity Movement, 1974-1987,” in Topographies of Transnationalism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) and “The Independent Republic of Football: The Politics of Neighborhood Clubs in Santiago, Chile, 1948-1960,” The Journal of Social History 42 (Spring 2009): 605-630. She has several articles forthcoming, including “Sport, Gender, and Politics in Latin America,” in Oxford University’s Sport in History(2014), and “Football at the “end” of the World: the 1962 World Cup in Chile,” in Kay Schiller and Stefan Rinke’s Histories of the World Cup (Göttingen, Wallstein, 2014).

In 2012 Elsey won the Stessin Prize for best faculty publication at Hofstra University. She has been the co-director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at Hofstra since 2008 and directed the Women’s Studies program from 2009 to 2013. She is currently on the Advisory Board for Hofstra’s Center for Civic Engagement and for Michigan State University’s Football Scholars Forum.