Joshua Nadel

Joshua Nadel is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean whose work focuses on twentieth-century popular culture and gender in the region. He teaches classes on Latin American social and cultural history, sports history, and immigration and borderlands history, as well as courses on human rights and humanitarian aid. He is co-author, with Brenda Elsey, of Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019), which was translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones UC as Futbolera. Historia de la mujer y el deporte en América Latina" (2021). He is currently working on two projects. One focuses on sports, marketing, and Latin American immigration to the United States; the second explores the grassroots networks of women’s fútbol in Latin America.

Along with Futbolera, he has previously published Fútbol: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), as well as numerous chapters in peer-reviewed collections. These include "Unfulfilled Promises: Mexico’s Complicated Century of Soccer,” in Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations; "The Anti-National Game: Women’s Soccer in Latin America,” in Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America; and “Cup of Welcome?: Media, Marketing, Latinos, and the 1994 World Cup,” in The FIFA World Cup, 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacles, and Identities. He has also published on the intersection of soccer, politics, and society in Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Remezcla, and Vice Sports.

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