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Vikki Krane, Ph.D.,
WS Director and Graduate Coordinator; and professor in the School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies. Dr. Krane has been a faculty member at BGSU since 1990 and has been a Women's Studies Affiliated faculty member since 2001. Her research, grounded in feminist and social identity perspectives, examines athletes' body image and heterosexism in sport. She is a former editor of the Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal and The Sport Psychologist. Dr. Krane also is a former president and Fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP).
Education:
B.A., Denison University; M.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Courses taught:
Sport and Gender, Psychology of Gender, Sport Psychology, and Qualitative Research Methods.
Recent Publications & Presentations:
Krane, V. (2007). Gendered Social Dynamics in Sport. In M. Beauchamp & M. Eys (Eds.) Group dynamics advances in sport and exercise psychology: Contemporary themes (pp. 159-176). London: Routledge.
Krane, V., & Kauer, K. (2006). Out on the ball fields: Lesbians in women’s sport. In E. Peele and V. Clark (Eds.), Out in Psychology: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender perspectives. West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons.
Kauer, K.J., & Krane, V. (2006). “Scary dykes” and “feminine queens”: Stereotypes and female collegiate athletes. Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal, 15(1), 43-55.
Krane, V., Surface, H., & Alexander, L. (2005). Health implications of heterosexism and homonegativism for girls and women in sport. In L. Ransdall & L. Petlichkoff (Eds.), Ensuring the health of active and athletic girls and women (pp. 327-346). Reston, VA: National Association for Girls and Women in Sport.
Waldron, J.J., & Krane, V. (2005). Whatever it takes: Health compromising behaviors in female athletes. Quest, 57, 315-329.
Krane, V., & Barber, H. (2005). Identity tensions in lesbian college coaches. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 76, 67-81.
Krane, V., & Baird, S.M. (2005). Using ethnography in applied sport psychology. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 17, 1-21.
Email address: vkrane@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Updated: 03/06/08
