Stonehill's CSRESJ Welcomes Dr. Tracie Canada
An ethnographer and anthropologist, the scholar is currently based at Duke University.
About the Speaker
Dr. Tracie Canada is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research uses sport to theorize race, kinship and care, gender, and the performing body. ​Currently, she is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is also the founder and director of the Health, Ethnography, and Race through Sports (HEARTS) Lab and affiliated with the Duke Sports & Race Project.
Her research has been supported by various agencies, including the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Canada is also a National Science Foundation CAREER Award grantee.
Her book, Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (University of California Press, 2025), is an ethnography about the lived experiences of Black college football players. Through an analysis of college athletes, Blackness, and two types of care, she argues that Black college football players successfully move through their everyday lives by reimagining certain kinship relationships and relying on various geographies of care.
In addition to her academic writing, Canada's work has been featured in public outlets like Essence, TIME, The Guardian, and Scientific American.
This event is sponsored by Stonehill College's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice.