Jan Todd

Jan Todd, Ph.D., holder of the Roy J. McLean Fellowship in Sport History and Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology is a sport historian, sport ethicist and well-known expert on strength and conditioning. Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin, Todd teaches courses in sport and exercise history, sport philosophy, and sport ethics. She is also the co-founder (with her husband Terry Todd) of the internationally famous H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, the world’s largest archive of materials related to the study of exercise, health, fitness and sport performance located on the campus of the University of Texas   (www.starkcenter.org).

Todd’s research focuses on strength and conditioning from both applied and historical perspectives.   She has written more than one hundred articles in popular and scholarly journals and two books Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women (Mercer University Press, 1998) and, with, Terry Todd, Lift Your Way to Youthful Fitness (Little-Brown, 1985), the first popular book to argue that weight training could be used to offset the aging process. Todd’s other major research interest has been the history and ethical implications of doping.