About Caroline
PhD University of Toronto Community Health 2003
MSc University of Manitoba Physical Education 1995
Cert. in Educ. University of Ulster Physical Education 1986
BA University of Ulster Sports Studies 1985
Space, place, land, physical cultural studies
Animals, ecological destruction and sports environments
Children's play
Young people, health and environments
Social justice, equity and inclusion
Gender/s, sexualities, the body
Poststructuralist and postcolonial theories
Ecological determinants and geographies of health
Qualitative/ethnographic/spatial methodologies
Peer Reviewed Publications
Sher. C., & Fusco, C. (Accepted). Sports and sustainable development: The troubling absence of meat sourcing policies in the sports sector. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.
De Lisio, E. E. A., Fusco, C., Woodworth, S., & Taha-Thomure, R. (2023). Shelter in Place: Pandemic Prudentialism and Park Space in Toronto/Tkaronto. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 22(6), 1418–1441. Retrieved from https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2288
Nachman, J., Joseph, Janelle., & Fusco, Caroline. (2021). ‘What if what the professor knows is not diverse enough for us?’: Whiteness in Canadian kinesiology programs. Sport Education and Society. Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13573322.2021.1919613
Gauthier, Viviane Soa, Joseph, Janelle., & Fusco, Caroline. (2021). Lessons from Critical Race Theory: Outdoor Experiential Education in Kinesiology. Journal of Experiential Education. Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259211006739
Woodworth, S., & Fusco, C. (2021). Decolonizing autoethnography in kinesiology: Towards decolonial water education. The Journal of School & Society, 7(1), 91–110.
De Lisio, A. & Fusco, C. (2019). Creative Destruction: Zika, Lex Sportiva and (Alleged) Bodies of Contagion. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 38(1), 1-30
De Lisio, A., Yerashotis, G. & Fusco, C. (2019). Playing in the Shadow of Event Urbanism: Newcomer Youth, Neighborhood Change, and TO2015. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 2 (1+2), 195-218
Rodricks, D., Gallagher, K., Haag, J., Wortley, S., Fusco, C., DeLisio, A., DiCarlo, D., & McCready, L. (2018). Crossing Places: A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s–2010s. Cities Centre Research Paper 242: Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.
Rail, G., Molino, L., Fusco, C., Norman, M., Petherick., Polzer, J., Moola, F., Bryson, M. (2018). "HPV Vaccination Discourses and the Construction of "At-Risk" Girls". Canadian Journal of Public Health
Nicholls, D.A., Jachyra, P., Gibson, B.E., Fusco, C., & Setchell. J. (2018). Keep fit: marginal ideas in contemporary therapeutic exercise. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
Fusco, C. & McKeever, P. (2016). Cujo’s Crease: Deconstructing the Haunting Trompe-l’œil of a Cancer Treatment Room in a Children’s Hospital. Cultural Studies<=>Critical Methodologies 15, 337-349
Faulkner, G., Mitra, R., Buliung, R., Fusco, C., & Stone, M. (2015) Children's outdoor playtime, physical activity, and parental perceptions of the neighbourhood environment. International Journal of Play, 4(1), 84-97
Alexander, S.A., Fusco, C., & Frohlich, K.L. (2015) “You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day… I saw it on TV.”: Children’s play narratives in the context of the public health discourse of playing for health. Sociology of Health & Illness, Special issue: Children, Health and Well-being: Policy Debates and Lived Experience), 37(2), 227-240.
Books
Alexander, S.A., Frohlich, K.L., & Fusco, C. (2018). Play, Physical Activity and Public Health
The Reframing of Children's Leisure Lives. London: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Fusco, C. (2019). Sexuality and sport. In George Ritzer and Chris Rojek, (Ed.), Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss109.pub2
Fusco, C. (2018). On being sick of humans in a post human world. For K. Gallagher (Ed.), The Methodological Dilemma Revisited: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research for a New Era (pp. 113-136). London: Routledge. See https://www.routledge.com/The-Methodological-Dilemma-Revisited-Creative-Critical-and-Collaborative/Gallagher/p/book/9781138555143
Fusco, C. (2017). Healthified spaces. For D. Andrews, M. Silk & H. Thorpe (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (pp. 355-368). New York: Taylor & Francis Books.
Buliung, R., Larsen, K., Faulkner, G., Fusco, C., & Rothman, L. (2015). Driven to school: social fears and traffic environments. In A. Walks, (ed.), The urban political economy and ecology of automobility: Driving cities, driving inequality, driving politics (pp. 81-99). London: Routledge.
Fusco, C. (2014). Transcending the (White) Straight Mind in Sport. In J. Hargreaves and E. Anderson (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender & Sexuality (pp. 435-442). London: Routledge.
Fusco, C. (2012). CRITICAL FEMINIST/QUEER Methodologies: Deconstructing (hetero)normative inscription/s. In Young, K. & Atkinson, M. (Eds). 2012. Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture (pp. 151-166). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
2019-2022, SSHRC Insight Development Grant (PI), “Sports should not cost the earth: Towards and interspecies equity-based sustainability, Funds Awarded $67,465.
2012-2023, SSHRC Partnership Grant, Co-Investigator, Neighbourhood Inequality, Diversity, and Change: Trends, Processes, Consequences, and Policy Options for Canada's Large Metropolitan Areas. (PI Dr. David Hulchanski, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto), SSHRC Partnership Grant, Funds Awarded: $2.5 million. [Subgrant: In the shadow of event-led urbanism: Neighbourhood, newcomer youth and TO2015, PI Caroline Fusco, Funds Awarded $14, 500]
2019, Developing a place-based theory and method to examine sport geographies and ecological degradation. PI Supervisor for Mark Corsetti for University of Toronto Excellence Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities (UTEA-SSH), Awaarded $6,000.
2018, PI Caroline Fusco; Multispecies contact zones: Considering the ecological impact of the hyper-consumption of animals and plastics in urban sports spaces. FKPE Internal Grant, $5,689.
2016, PI Caroline Fusco; Co-Applicant Amanda De Lisio. Economies of Deviance: Sex Work and The Sport Mega-Event: The Case of Zika and Moral Panic. SSHRC SIG Award, $4,216.
2015, Co-Supervisor with Dr. Michael Atkinson for Stephanie Woodworth recipient of 2015 University of Toronto Excellence Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities (UTEA-SSH), $6,000.
2014, PI, Caroline Fusco; Co-Applicants, Michelle Brownrigg, Day Milman. PanAm Pride: The Opportunity of the Games’ Positive Space in Physical Activity and Sport at University of Toronto, FKPE Internal Grant, $4,949.10.
Contracts
2011, Ontario Ministry of Education, Review and revision of the Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Grades 9-12 from anti-discrimination, bias/inclusion perspective and accuracy of content/concepts related to anti-discrimination education. Role was to complete the (equity) bias check for the front matter, the HALE courses and the destination courses: Funds Awarded: $1500.00.
Ongoing Research Projects
The Change Room Project- Media Output
http://harthouse.ca/the-changeroom-project/
http://thevarsity.ca/2015/06/09/athletes-in-conversation/
http://news.utoronto.ca/toronto-2015-pan-amparapan-am-games-change-room-project
http://physical.utoronto.ca/News/2015/06/23/these-walls-cantalk-the-change-room-project
2016 Award of Excellence in Integration (For leadership in research and knowledge translation in the execution of The Change Room Project at the University of Toronto), Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
2016 U of T’s Excellence Through Innovation Award (ETIA) for The Change Room Project (Human Resources and Equity, University of Toronto)
PhD
Erin Sullivan (current): Speciesism and sport
Chloe Sher (current): Life-course intersectionality: Gender, race, immigrant status, and inequality in physical activity
Katie Faust (current): Putting Grief in the Playbook: Spatializing Bereavement in Sport.
Teresa Hill (2023): Moving toward understanding: Negotiating physical activity and wellbeing while living in poverty.
Alexandra Maris (2022): Martial Art Destination Training Camps as Racial, Classed and Gendered Sporting Projects: A Case Study of a Camp in Thailand.
Danielle Di Carlo (2018) Cultivating democratic space? The case of specialist sports schools.
Amanda De Lisio (2016) Economies of flesh: Event-led urbanism the impact on sex work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Stephanie Alexander (2014) Play in public health (co-supervised, K. Frohlich, Université de Montréal)
MSc
Caitlin Felteau-McInnis (current): A Socio-Cultural Interrogation of the Rocky Mountain Suicide Belt: Gender, Leisure, and Support in Ski Country
Ali Greey (2019): Gender Transgressors: Exploring the Intersectional Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Individuals in Locker Rooms.
Stephanie Woodworth (2018): Water, social justice and Physical Culture Studies.
Rachel Scarcello (2016): Ideologies of greatness and the production of space and subjects: A case study of the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport.
Undergraduate independent research project
Emma Karamanlian (2023-2024): Where’s the Queer in Kinesiology and U of T? A textual analysis of 2SLGBTQI histories, policies and practices
Emma Karamanlian (2022-2023): Bending Over Backwards: A Media Analysis of Abuse in Gymnastics Canada
Kyara Simoes (2022-2023): Environmental Sustainability Within Sport: The Development of Green Athletics in University
Mathieu Barnes (2019-2020): (Co-supervising with Dr. Margaret MacNeill):Exercise, Gender & Exclusion: Barriers and Facilitators of Transgender Exercise Participation
Viviane Gauthier (2019): (Co-supervising with Dr. Janelle Joseph): Outdoor Projects and legacies of racism and settler-colonialism.
Jessica Nachman (2019): (Co-supervising with Dr. Janelle Joseph): Whiteness in Ontario Kinesiology programs.
Mark Corsetti (2018): A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Sex, Gender, and School Health and Physical Education Curricula (Sex-ed).
Sara Santos (2018): (Co-supervision with Dr. Kelly Arbour Nicotopolis): Student Narratives Surrounding Accessibility Within Physical Activity and Sport Spaces at the University of Toronto.
Ardavan Jafari (2016): Examining the Prohibition on Iranian Women’s Sports Spectatorship in Iran.
American Association of Geographers
Canadian Association of Geographers
International Sociology of Sport Association