CHARLES P. KORR
PRESENT POSITIONS:
Visiting Research Professor
International Centre for Sport History and Culture
DeMontfort University, Leicester
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Phone: (07981) 759 - 718
Visiting Professor in FIFA International MA in Management, Law, and Humanities of Sport – DeMontfort University (Leicester), SDA Bocconi
School of Management (Milan), and University of Neuchatel, 2003 -
Professor Emeritus , Department of History,
University of Missouri - St. Louis
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Phone: (314) 367 – 2688
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
Ph.D., (with distinction) University of California, Los Angeles, 1969
Supervisors: Professors Andrew Lossky and S. T. Bindoff
Research Student, Institute of Historical Research, University of London,1966-7
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1965
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1961
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Professor, University of the Western Cape, (South Africa), 1993, 2000
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, International Centre for Sport History and Culture, DeMontfort University, 2004-2005
Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 1986- 2003, Chairperson of Department, 1992 - 1995
Director, Center for the Humanities, 1995-97
Assistant to the Mayor, City of St. Louis, 1977-1981
Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri – St. Louis, 1970 - 1986
RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Co-producer and historical consultant for the feature film, “More Than Just a Game”, produced by Anant Singh and Helena Spring for Videovision, South Africa. The film is a docudrama telling the story of football in Robben Island prison and how the political prisoners used the sport to continue the struggle against apartheid. The script is based on the research I conducted in South Africa from 1995 to 2006. It had its premiere in November, 2007 as part of the ceremonies for the qualifying round draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be held in South Africa. The film was released in theatres in South Africa in 2008 and as a dvd in Europe in 2009. The world wide television rights were purchased by Sony International Television Films and it was shown on television in more than thirty five countries in 2010..
Co-author (with Marvin Close) of the book, More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid published by Harper Collins in October, 2008 in U. K., Ireland, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. Dutch edition published in May, 2009, U. S. Italian, and Koreaneditions published in 2010, Czechedition in 2011.The book deals in greater detail with thesubject of the film, “More Than Just a Game’.
The book has received wide attention in many countries. Since 2008, there have been articles about it in major newspapers and magazines in many countries including United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, United States, France, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, India, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Slovenia, Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Brazil, and Portugal. The book was given special recognition by the New York Times in 2010 as one of the best soccer related books.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid (U. S. Edition entitled Soccer v Apartheid) Harper Collins, 2008, (St. Martins Press, 2010) See RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960 - 1981 (University of Illinois Press (Urbana), 2002, paperback edition, 2005
West Ham United: the Making of a Football Club (Duckworth, London) and University of Illinois Press (Urbana), 1986, second edition, 2005
Cromwell and the New Model Foreign Policy University of California Press, 1975
Articles and Chapters ( partial)
“Two Paths to Player Power: American Baseball and European Football” in The Sports Historian, spring, 2002, pp. 60 - 78
“From Players Group to Players Union” in 1998 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (McFarland Press), 2002, pp. 24 - 43
“Curt Flood and the Players Union: Turning Defeat Into Free Agency” in Gateway Heritage (Spring, 2002), pp. 16 - 23
“From Judge Cannon to Marvin Miller; From Players’ Group to Players Union” in Diamond Mines: Baseball and Labor (Syracuse University Press, 2000), pp. 1 - 20
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“Le pays du sport face au sport le plus populaire du monde” in Societe et Repescitations, Paris, March, 1999 pp. 89 - 98
“Une rhetorique de la familie” in Actes de la recherches en sciences sociales, edited by Pierre Bordieau, (number 103, June, 1994)
“A Different Kind of Success: West Ham United and the Myths of Community” in Sport and the Working Class in Modern Britain (Manchester University Press, 1990), pp. 142 - 158
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1976
Awards for The End of Baseball As We Knew It
“Dave Moore Award” of Elysian Fields Quarterly as “Most important baseball book published in 2002
Runner-up for Seymour Medal of Society for American Baseball Research as best baseball book of the year, 2002
Runner-up for North American Society for Sport History award as best sport history book published in 2002
Wall Street Journal (May 8, 2010) named The End of Baseball As We Knew It as one of “Five Best baseball Books”.
Lectures and papers presented in more than fifteen countries on five continents Topics of the presentations were various aspects of sports history and/or the role of sports in 20th and 21st century society.
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