Did you know that there is a vast collection of programs from the Calgary Stampede housed in the MRU Archives’ Blaine Canadian Sports History Collection? In this presentation, scholars Dr. Marty Clark and Dr. Andrea Phillipson will discuss their experiences bringing sports history students to the Archives, where they examine mid-century Stampede programs and connect these artifacts to the colonial history of sports. This presentation will convey how archives assignments have been integrated into coursework, and how sports and sporting events such as the Calgary Stampede have been used as tools of assimilation as well as Indigenous self-determination. 

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Dr. Marty Clark

Dr. Clark teaches in the Department of Health & Physical Education and has a passion for inclusivity, equity, and social justice in university education. His courses ask students to examine health, physical activity, and sport from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. 

Dr. Andrea Phillipson

Dr. Phillipson has an eclectic academic background, with degrees in fields as diverse as literary studies and sociocultural studies of sport, health, and the body. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in educational development, Andrea joined the faculty team in the Academic Development Centre at MRU in 2018. She also teaches in the Department of Health & Physical Education.