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Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of California, San Diego |
Known for | Expertise in the history of Soviet sports |
Robert Edelman (born 1945) is an American historian. Since 1972, he has been a Professor of Russian History and Sports History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Sports History [1].
Robert Edelman was born in 1945 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a short walk from Ebbets Field. Watching the fabled Boys of Summer was his first sporting experience. The Dodgers’ 1957 exit from Brooklyn was his first confrontation with the true nature of modern sport not to mention capitalism. He too left Brooklyn for college, graduating from Princeton University in 1966 and later receiving a PhD in Russian history from Columbia University in 1974, [2] after which he began teaching in the history department of the University of California, San Diego where he is presently a professor of Russian history and the history of sport. [3] He has also taught at UCLA.
After publishing two books on pre-revolutionary Russian history, Edelman turned his attention to the study of Soviet sport, producing a volume, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR, (Oxford UP, 1993). That book won the annual awards of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles and the North American Society of Sports Historians. He has just published Spartak Moscow: A History of the People’s Team in the Workers’ State ( Cornell UP) which won the Zelnik Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the best work of history in the field as well as the annual prize of the North American Society of Sports Historians for the second time. He has also published articles in the Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, Russian Review, the Journal of Sports History, Hoop, History Today and the American Historical Review. He has received Guggenheim, NEH, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, and IREX fellowships. He is presently editing The Oxford Handbook of Sports History and is directing a multi-year project on sport in the Cold War for the Wilson Center for International Scholars.
Edelman has worked as a stringer for the Associated Press covering the National Basketball Association. His reporting and commentary have appeared in the New York Times and on Public Radio International’s daily business show, Marketplace. He has worked with, and in some cases appeared on documentaries by ESPN, HBO, ABC, PBS, and the BBC about Russian and Soviet sport. He also served as a researcher for CBS at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games. In the late eighties, Edelman served as an adviser to several NBA clubs seeking talent from the former Soviet Union. He has been a frequent visitor to Russia and its arenas since 1965. At the moment, he was West Coast NBA correspondent for the Russian national sports daily, Sport-Express.
Robert Edelman's significant contributions to historical scholarship include a range of books, edited volumes, and articles. Below is a selection of his work:
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Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of California, San Diego |
Known for | Expertise in the history of Soviet sports |
Robert Edelman (born 1945) is an American historian. Since 1972, he has been a Professor of Russian History and Sports History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Sports History [1].
Robert Edelman was born in 1945 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a short walk from Ebbets Field. Watching the fabled Boys of Summer was his first sporting experience. The Dodgers’ 1957 exit from Brooklyn was his first confrontation with the true nature of modern sport not to mention capitalism. He too left Brooklyn for college, graduating from Princeton University in 1966 and later receiving a PhD in Russian history from Columbia University in 1974, [2] after which he began teaching in the history department of the University of California, San Diego where he is presently a professor of Russian history and the history of sport. [3] He has also taught at UCLA.
After publishing two books on pre-revolutionary Russian history, Edelman turned his attention to the study of Soviet sport, producing a volume, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR, (Oxford UP, 1993). That book won the annual awards of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles and the North American Society of Sports Historians. He has just published Spartak Moscow: A History of the People’s Team in the Workers’ State ( Cornell UP) which won the Zelnik Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the best work of history in the field as well as the annual prize of the North American Society of Sports Historians for the second time. He has also published articles in the Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, Russian Review, the Journal of Sports History, Hoop, History Today and the American Historical Review. He has received Guggenheim, NEH, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, and IREX fellowships. He is presently editing The Oxford Handbook of Sports History and is directing a multi-year project on sport in the Cold War for the Wilson Center for International Scholars.
Edelman has worked as a stringer for the Associated Press covering the National Basketball Association. His reporting and commentary have appeared in the New York Times and on Public Radio International’s daily business show, Marketplace. He has worked with, and in some cases appeared on documentaries by ESPN, HBO, ABC, PBS, and the BBC about Russian and Soviet sport. He also served as a researcher for CBS at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games. In the late eighties, Edelman served as an adviser to several NBA clubs seeking talent from the former Soviet Union. He has been a frequent visitor to Russia and its arenas since 1965. At the moment, he was West Coast NBA correspondent for the Russian national sports daily, Sport-Express.
Robert Edelman's significant contributions to historical scholarship include a range of books, edited volumes, and articles. Below is a selection of his work: