Caroline Fusco Faculty of Physical Education and Health 55 Harbord Street, RM 328 Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2W6 416-946-7717 c.fusco@utoronto.ca |
Degrees
PhD University of Toronto Community Health 2003
MSc University of Manitoba Physical Education 1995
Cert. in Educ. University of Ulster Physical Education 1986
BA University of Ulster Sports Studies 1985
Expertise
Sociology of physical activity and health;
Cultural geographies of children and youth's physical activity and health environments;
Poststructuralist and feminist theories of the body, gender and sexuality;
Ethics and social justice issues in sport and physical education;
Qualitative research methods; equity and diversity studies in education.
Current Research Grants
2009-2010, Co-Investigator, Putting Inner City Students First (PICSF): PI, Kathleen Gallagher; Co-Investigators Drs C. Fusco, J. Cummins, E. Jang, J. Flessa, S. Niyozov & D. Riviere: Inquiry into Practice Grants, Council of Directors of Education, $35,100.
2007-2010 Principal Investigator, Geographies of Young People Active Living: Perceptions of and Response to PLAY (Place, Activity, Youth): SSHRC Standard Grant, $90,000.
2007-2010, Co-Investigator, Built Environment Active transport (BEAT): Built Environment, Obesity and Health Strategic Initiative: Co-PI's Dr. G.Faulkner & Dr. R.Buliung; Co-Investigators Dr. C.Fusco & Dr. E.Adalf; Co-Applicants; A. Salmon, D. Howard, J.Kennedy: Heart and Stroke Foundation, $401,453.
Recent Journal Publications
Fusco, C. (2009). Subjection, surveillance, and the place(s) of performance: the discursive productions of space in Canada’s national sport centre policy. Sport History Review 40(1), 1-29.
Faulkner, G, Buling, R, Flora, P. & Fusco, C. (2008) Active school transport, physical activity levels and body weight of children and youth: A systematic review. Preventive Medicine, 48, 3–8.
Fusco, C. (2007) 'Healthification' and the promises of urban space: A textual analysis of representations of Place, Activity, Youth (PLAY-ing) in the city. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 423(1), 43-63.
Gallagher, K., & Fusco C. (2006). I.D.ology and the technologies of public (school) space: An ethnographic inquiry into the neo-liberal tactics of social (re)production. Journal of Ethnography and Education, 1(3), 301-318.
Fusco, C. (2006). Inscribing healthification: Governance, risk, surveillance and the subjects and spaces of fitness and health. Journal of Health & Place, 12 (1), 65-78.
Fusco, C. (2006). Spatializing the (Im)Proper Subject: The Geographies of Abjection in Sport and Physical Activity Space. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 30(1), 5-28.
Fusco, C. (2005). Cultural Landscapes of purification: Sports spaces and discourses of whiteness. Sociology of Sport Journal, 22 (3), 283-310.
Book Chapters
Fusco, C. (full manuscript under review). Psychogeographies, abjection and productions of culture: Kristeva and the psychic realm of physical cultural studies. In Michael L. Silk & David L. Andrews (Eds.), Physical Cultural Studies Anthology: Temple University Press.
Fusco, C. (full manuscript under review). Moral geographies, healthification and neo-liberal urban imaginaries. In David L. Andrews & Michael L. Silk (Eds.), Sport and Neo-Liberalism: Temple University Press.
Fusco, C. (2008). ‘Naked Truths’: Ethnographic dilemmas of doing research on the body in social spaces. In Kathleen Gallagher (Ed.), The Methodological Dilemma: Critical, Creative, and Post-Positivist Approaches to Qualitative Research: Routledge, 159-184.
Technical Writing and Reports
Fusco, C. (2007). Sexuality and sport. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Volume IX: SE-ST). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 4290-4293.
Recent Supervised Theses
Fiona Moola, Master of Science, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto. Title: “What I wish you knew.” Towards a sociology of physical activity in congenital health disease (CHD): The social determinants of physical activity and health in children and youth with CHD and their health care professionals. Degree Granted November 2008.
Lindsay Shane (Master of Science, Co-Supervisor with Dr. Margaret MacNeill, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto). Title: The production of space and subjectivity in Robert Hurst’s The Art of Urban Cycling. Defended November 2008.
Committee Member for:
Cassandra Wells (Master of Science, Supervisor: Dr. Peter Donnelly, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto). Title: Canadian student athletes' experiences in the NCAA: The experiences of those who stay and those who leave. Defended March 2009; Mark Renneson (Master of Arts, Supervisor: Dr. Maureen Ford, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, OISE/UT. Working Title: Thinking aesthetically: A proposal for regarding sport. Submitted and completed January 2009; Elizabeth Crawford (Master’s of Arts, Supervisor: Dr. Paul Ritvo, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University). Title: Adventure Learning and the Psychology of Challenge.
Tamar Meyer (Master’s of Arts MRP, Supervisor: Dr. Jacqeline Gibbons, Department of Sociology, York University). Title: Transexualism in Sport: Theoretical and Policy Contestations.
Undergraduate Supervision
2007-2008 Stephanie Cook (PHE 390Y Advanced Research in Physical Activity and Health, 3rd year undergraduate student). Title of Research Study: "Creating Positive Spaces for LGBT Athletes? An Investigation of International Olympic Committees' Gender and Sexuality Policies."
2006-2007 Deanna Merkley (PHE 490Y Advanced Research in Physical Activity and Health 4th year undergraduate student). Title of Research Study: "(Re)Presentations of Queer/Athletic bodies in the space of the OutGames 2006, Montreal, Canada."
Other Research Advisory and Consulting Boards
Centre for Urban Schooling Associate Member (OISE/University of Toronto)
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (University of Toronto)
Friends of Community Schools: Triangle Program Community Council Member
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
American Association of Geographers.
American Education Research Association.
Canadian Association of Geographers.
Canadian Society for Studies in Education.
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.