Tucker Center Talks

In this episode, Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi talks with Anna Goorevich as they dive into the Tucker Center's 2023-2024 Women in College Coaching Report Card, created in collaboration with WeCOACH. Together, they explore the latest data, discussing the successes, challenges, and future of the Division I women’s coaching landscape. Listeners will hear about which sports and institution

In this episode, TC Director Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi talks with Anna Goorevich, Tucker Center Research Assistant and sport sociology doctoral student. They discuss her work on menstrual health, gender essentialism in coaching, and the role of female mentors in shaping her career. Anna also offers insights into her ongoing projects, including creating period-friendly environments in spo

In this episode, Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi (she/her) talks with Dr. Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow (they/she) is Associate Professor of Public Policy and History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They specialize in the gendered politics of public policy, political history of Title IX and how policy has shaped intersectional meanings of identities. We talk about research, forthcoming

Download the report: "DisruptHERS: Driving A New Model for Women's Sport." For decades, scholars and advocates of women’s sport have called for a change in how women’s sport is marketed, sponsored, endorsed, promoted, covered, invested in, capitalized upon, and broadcast. Men’s sport grew and became popular and lucrative precisely because of media attention and investment, in

Listen to our cohort of six amazing Tucker Center Summer Gender Equity Summer Interns from around the US [Arla Davis, Gina Caravaglia, Johanna Glaaser, Nicole Johnson, Mahi Jariwala & Saira Nagda], talk about what they learned this summer, key take-aways, what was surprising and what they want future summer interns to know! 

Nicole talks to a colleague at the University of Minnesota Dr. Dunja Antunovic (who first appeared in S2E11) about her latest research of women in American Football, the Women’s World Cup, and some exciting upcoming projects.Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoiRecorded: December 16, 2021For more information, links and resources and hundreds more conversations from the world of women’s sport

On this week’s episode, Nicole talks to some #disruptHERS colleagues — Drs. Katie Lebel, Nancy Lough, and Ann Pegoraro — about recent disruptions in women’s sport, which continue to make headlines. They begin with the recent situation surrounding Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, 35, a three-time Olympian, who has been missing since November 2, when she used social media to

In this week's episode, Nicole talks with her predecessor Dr. Mary Jo Kane, Professor Emerita and Founder of the Tucker Center about perspectives on current cultural narratives and trends related to girls and women in sport, the NCAA Gender Equity Review, the Olympics and beyond.

In this episode, Nicole discusses disruptions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with returning guests, colleagues, Tucker Center Affiliated Scholars and #disruptHERS Drs. Nancy Lough, Katie Lebel, Dunja Antunovic. Their aim is to bring attention to the people, organizations, and events that disrupt the status quo and the normative masculine behavior model of sport. A new report on pa

Joining Nicole this week is the Tucker Center team of ten summer Gender Equity Interns to talk about the projects they have worked on, the theory behind their research, what they have already learned about research, and what they want everyone to know about the Tucker Center and the work it does for women and girls in sport.Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoiA co-production of The Tucker Center