Welcome to the research guide for Sports Studies. Here you will find print and online resources that will help you in your research. This guide will also offer suggestions for how to search for print and electronic holdings at Hesburgh Libraries. This guide is not comprehensive, but it should help you begin and plan research strategies.
Sports Studies examines contemporary and historical athletic endeavors within the context of broader cultures, societies, and systems. Sports Studies commonly utilizes research methods and investigative techniques derived from the humanities and the social sciences, including history, sociology, economics, psychology, communications, gender studies, and other disciplines.
Many sports studies projects investigate the intersection of sports and athletics with topics like education, journalism, race, ethnicity, class, gender, labor, technology, sexuality, and other subjects. The Joyce Sports Research Collection in the Hesburgh Libraries Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is one of the country's largest archives of material related to the history of sports, including printed material, ephemera, visual culture, and manuscripts.
Related library guides that may be useful for sports studies projects include: Africana Studies; American Studies; Archives and Archival Resources; Film, Television, and Theatre; Gender Studies; Global Affairs; History, Western Europe; Journalism; Latinx, Latino/a Studies; Sociology; and United States and Canada History.