Rebeccah "Bess" Dawson
Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., German, Davidson College
Program Director, Kentucky Institute for Interational Studies (KIIS) Summer Program in Munich, Germany
Director, Global Studies Certificate
Co-Editor, Colloquia Germanica
Chair, UK-Heidelberg Exchange Scholarship Committee
Chair, Moran Scholarship Committee
Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Politics, Society and History, eds. Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe and Alan McDougall (forthcoming, fall 2022)
“Soccer, Film, and the Third Reich: Hunters, Cowards, and Glory,” in Sport, Film and National Culture, ed. Seán Crosson. London: Routledge Publishing, 2021: 112-125.
“Das große Spiel,” Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014: 62-63.
“Sport Film,” with Michelle Langford and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn. Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014: 40-52.
“Quest for the Aryan Athlete: Riefenstahl and the Olympia-n Influence,” XIII Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport and XII Congress of the Brazilian Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Gama Filho, 2014.
“‘Death is more heroic on the soccer field…’: The Cult of Athletics in Melchior Vischer’s Soccer Players and Indians,” in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XXVII:1, Fall 2009/Winter 2010: 1-21.