Cathy van Ingen, PhD

Professor, Kinesiology

Office: WC 282
905 688 5550 x4981
cathy.vaningen@brocku.ca

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My research  examines  the relationship between sport, inequality, and social change.  As a scholar-activist, my work  broadly  explores  gender-based violence,   trauma-informed physical activity, geographies of sport , boxing , sport for development  and peace, and documentary filmmaking . I am  a  co-founder  of  ‘Shape Your Life,’ a free, non-contact , trauma-informed  boxing program for  women- identified  survivors of  violence.  I n 2019,   I   also  founded  ‘ Shape Your Life Youth ’ , a free, trauma-informed boxing program for youth  who have experienced violence and/or trauma.  

Research Interests

  • Trauma-informed physical activity and research approaches
  • Boxing
  • Gender-based violence
  • Geographies of sport and resistance
  • Sport history
  • Documentary filmmaking  
  • Sport for Development and Peace  

Professional affiliations and accreditation/certification

  • North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Member
  • North American Society for Sport History, MemberInternational Boxing Research Organization, Member
  • Shape Your Life Boxing (co-founder) www.shapeyourlifeboxing.com

Publications

van Ingen, C. ( in press ). Stabbed, Shot, Left  To  Die: Christy Martin and Gender-Based Violence in Boxing.  International Review for the Sociology of Sport .  

  Fullagar , S., Rich, E.,  Pavlidis , A., and van Ingen, C. (Eds.) (2021).  Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges . New York: Routledge   

  van Ingen, C. (2020). “Trauma and Recovery: Violence Against Women in a Neurological Age” In  Forces of Impact :  Socio-Cultural Examinations of Sports Concussion . Eds., M. MacDonald & M.  Ventresca . New York: Routledge. Pp. 116-131.  

  van Ingen, C. (2019). “Women’s Boxing: Bout Time”. In  The  Cambridge Companion to Boxing . Ed. Gerald Early. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 137-149.   

  Sharpe, E.,  Lashua , B., and van Ingen, C. (2019) A Good Place for What? Placing ‘Value’ in   Youth Centres.  Leisure Sciences .  doi.org/1 .1080/01490400.2019.1604277  

  McSweeny , M.,  Kikulis , L., Hayhurst, L., Thibault, L., and van Ingen, C. (2019). Maintaining and disrupting global-North hegemony/global-South dependence in a local African sport for development organization: The role of  institutional work.  International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.    

  Chawansky , M., Hayhurst, L., McDonald, M., and van Ingen, C. (Eds.) (2018).  Innovations in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) Research.  New York:  Routledge   

  van Ingen, C. (2018).  Getting lost as a way of knowing: The art of boxing within Shape Your Life.  Reprinted  in  Sport in Under-Resourced, Underdeveloped, and Conflict Regions . Eds. W. Massey, M. Whitley, & S. Darnell.  New York: Routledge. Pp. 64-78.   

Mandigo , J.L., Corlett, J., Holt, N., van Ingen, C.,  Geilser , G., MacDonald, D, and Higgs, C. (2018). The Impact of  Hoodlinks  Program to Develop Life Skills and Prevent Youth Violence in Guatemala.  Journal for Sport for Developm ent. (Vol. 6, No. 11), pp. 21-37.  

  van Ingen, C., Sharpe, E., and  Lashua , B. (2018). Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing.  International Review for the Sociology of Sport.  (Vol. 53, No. 2), pp. 197-212.   

Teaching

  • Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation
  • Cultural Studies of Sport and Leisure
  • Gender and Sport
  • Social History of Physical Education and Sport