Interpreting Sports at Museums and Historic Sites

Kathryn Leann Harris holds a BA in History from the University of Mississippi and an MA in Public History from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her professional experience includes positions at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, International Tennis Hall of Fame, and Adidas History Management Department in Nuremberg, Germany. Kathryn examines America’s commemoration practices, specifically in relation to sports, war, and politics. She has facilitated several “sports and public history” panel discussions at the AASLH and NCPH annual conferences and is the co-editor of Rowan and Littlefield’s upcoming publication, Interpreting Sports History at Museum and Historic Sites. Douglas Stark is the Museum Director at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. He oversees the museum’s collections, programming, exhibitions, and visitor experience. He has also worked at two other sports museums — the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass, the United States Golf Association Museum in Far Hills, N.J.,