RESEARCH & FACULTY
Barbara Ravel
Barbara Ravel
Assistant ProfessorHuman Kinetics
Professional Schools
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Sudbury Campus
Barbara Ravel, Ph.D., has been an assistant professor in the School of Human Kinetics at Laurentian University since 2008. She received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Human Kinetics from Université de Montréal, after a Master's and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from France. Her areas of expertise are Sport Psychology and the Sociology of Sport. Her current research projects focus on gender and sexuality issues in sport and on the psychological factors involved in athletic performance.
Education
- Ph.D. - Human Kinetics
- M.Sc. - Human Kinetics
- Master's Degree - Psychology
- Bachelor's Degree - Psychology
Research Focus
Sport psychology
Sociology of sport
Women in sport
Gender and sexuality
Non-conventional genders and sexualities
Sport and media
Athletic performance
Qualitative research
Feminist, poststructuralist and queer theories
Awards
- Barbara A. Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Publications
- Ravel, B. (2012). Making space for gay sport participants. In R. Schinke & S.J. Hanrahan (Eds.), Sport for Development, Peace, and Social Justice (pp. 105-119). Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.
- Ravel, B. & Rail, G. (2010). Strong women, fragile closets: The queering of women's sport. In S. Spickard Prettyman & B. Lampman (Eds.), Learning culture through sports: Perspectives on society and organized sports (pp. 251-259). New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Ravel, B. & Rail, G. (2008). From straight to gaie? Quebec sportswomen's discursive constructions of sexuality and destabilization of the linear coming out process. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 32, 4-23.
- Ravel, B. & Rail, G. (2007). On the limits of gaie spaces: Discursive constructions of women's sport in Quebec. Sociology of Sport Journal, 24, 402-420.
- Ravel, B. & Rail, G. (2006). The lightness of being gaie: Discursive constructions of gender and sexuality in Quebec women's sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41, 395-412.
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