Marion Stell

Dr Marion Stell investigates the social and cultural history of sport. She is the author of seven books, including Half the Race: A History of Australian Women in Sport (1991), and has also published books on surfing, swimming and soccer throughout her thirty-year academic career. She was the foundation curator of the permanent exhibition, Sportex, at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in 1996. Dr Stell has been a keynote speaker at Australian and international conferences on the social and cultural history of sport, and is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland and in the Centre for Heritage and Culture at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba.