Brenda Elsey

Brenda Elsey is an American historian commonly known for researching about topics of History of Latin America such as politics, soccer or gender roles. Since 2008, she has been the co-director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at Hofstra University. Similarly, she directed there the Women’s Studies program from 2009 to 2013.

She won the Stessin Prize for the best faculty publication at Hofstra. On the other hand, she has written on sport and social justice for popular publications like «The New Republic», «The Allrounder» or «Sport's Illustrated». Likewise, alongside scholars like Shireen Ahmed, she co-hosts the weekly podcast, ''Burn It All Down'', the first feminist sports podcast to analyze sports culture from an intersectional feminist lens.

Among her researchings, Elsey has stood out to study 20th-Chilean politics from the soccer civic associations. Her first book about it was ''Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile'' (2011), which temporality covers from 1893 to 1973 Pinochet's coup. Provided by Wikipedia