Apr 04, 2022
Bob Barney, PhD Professor Emeritus, UWO
Bob Barney, PhD Professor Emeritus, School of Kinesiology, UWO
Robert K. Barney born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, in 1932, he has lived and worked in Canada at Western University for 50 years. Educated at the University of New Mexico, his PhD was achieved in 1968. He is recipient of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Order (1998), the North American Society for Sport History’s Recognition Award for “Exceptional Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Sport History” (2003), and the Pierre de Coubertin Award given by the International Society of Olympic Historians for “Lifetime Contributions to Historical Scholarship on the Modern Olympic Movement (2010). In 2014 Western University conferred upon him the Doctor of Laws, Honorus Causa. He is active at Western in PhD graduate student supervision, teaching graduate courses, and personal research and publication.
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Robert K. Barney born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, in 1932, he has lived and worked in Canada at Western University for 50 years. Educated at the University of New Mexico, his PhD was achieved in 1968. He is recipient of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Order (1998), the North American Society for Sport History’s Recognition Award for “Exceptional Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Sport History” (2003), and the Pierre de Coubertin Award given by the International Society of Olympic Historians for “Lifetime Contributions to Historical Scholarship on the Modern Olympic Movement (2010). In 2014 Western University conferred upon him the Doctor of Laws, Honorus Causa. He is active at Western in PhD graduate student supervision, teaching graduate courses, and personal research and publication.
Talk title:
“An Olympic Calling: Donnie Pei, the People’s Grass Roots Movement, and Western’s Part in the Origin and Evolution of Olympic Education in China”