Sport and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Sport for Development
Social History of Sport
Sport and Gender
Sport and Race
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Ross, M., & McDougall, M. (2022). Hosting and Human Rights: The Olympics in the Twenty-First Century. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 85. DOI: .
Ross, M., Arkin, Z., Hui, F., Lhamo, C., Biao, T., Heine, M., ... & Wolff, E. A. (2021). Critical Commentary: A Call to Boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games and Establish Minimum Human Rights Standards for Olympic Hosts. Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, 6.
Ross, M., & Forsyth, J. (2021). A Good Fight: How Indigenous Women Approach Boxing as a Mechanism for Social Change. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 45(4), 303-328.
Ross, M., & Wamsley, K. B. (2020). “The New Woman and the Manly Art”: Women and Boxing in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Sport History Review, 51(2), 149-163.
Ross, M., Fabian, T., & Van Waas, C. (2019). Cultural reproduction and resistance at the rinks: Roller-skating and the Americanization of California, 1867–90. Journal of Sport History, 46(1), 5-19.
Ross, M., & Nagel, E. K. (2018). More than a Miracle: The Korean War, Cold War Politics, and the 1960 Olympic Hockey Tournament. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35(9), 911-928.
Ross, M. (2017). Thrashing Seasons: Sporting. Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling. Sport History Review, 48(1), 114-115.
Ross, M. (2017). In pursuit of a national Olympic team: James G. Merrick and the 1920 Canadian Olympic track and field trials. In S. Wassong, R. Baka, and J. Forsyth (Eds.),Olympic Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Ross, M. (2017). The boxing boys in blue: gloved sparring and bare-knuckle prizefighting in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Journal of Sport History 44(3) (2017), 438-455.
Wamsley, K.B., & Ross, M (2016). Sport and masculinity. In L.J. Borish, D.K. Wiggins, & G.R. Gems (EDS.), The Routledge History of American Sport. London: Routledge.
Ross, M. (2016). In pursuit of a national Olympic team: James G. Merrick and the 1920 Canadian Olympic track and field trials. International Journal for the History of Sport 33(4): 385-400.
Ross M. (2015). Prizefighting and sparring on the Pacific Coast: the pugilistic culture of late antebellum and Civil War era California. Journal of the West 54(2): 49-57.
