School of History, Philosophy, and Religion

My research focuses on sport and development in Africa, specifically in Ghana. I am interested in the intersections of sport and society, culture, politics, and economics, from contemporary and historical perspectives. I have published several articles on the subject, and I am currently working on turning my dissertation into a book. My other fields of interest and research include the history of family planning in the Middle East and online activism among the Eritrean diaspora.

Select Publications

Dubinsky, Itamar. 2014. "Wife, Husband and Two Children: Family Planning Policies in Tunisia and Iran", Jama’a: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Middle East, 21, 59-87 (in Hebrew). Link.

Dubinsky, Itamar. 2016. "Global and Local Methodological and Ethical Questions in Researching Football Academies in Ghana", Children’s Geographies, 15:4, 385-398. Link.

Dubinsky, Itamar and Lynn Schler. 2017. "Mandela Soccer Academy: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Ghana, Lebanon, and the West", The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33:15, 1730-1747. Link.

Dubinsky, Itamar and Lynn Schler. 2019. "Goal dreams: conflicting development imaginaries in Ghanaian football academies", The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57:2, 247-272. Link.

Dubinsky, Itamar. 2020. "Digital Diaspora: Eritrean Asylum Seekers’ Cyberactivism in Israel", African Diaspora, 12:1-2, 89-116. Link.

Schler, Lynn and Itamar Dubinsky. 2020. "Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press", African Studies Review, 63:4, 883-905. Link.

Dubinsky, Itamar. 2021. "Sport for Development", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 1-21. Link.

Dubinsky, Itamar. 2021. "China's Stadium Diplomacy in Africa", Journal of Global Sport Management, 1-18. Link.