Travis Vogan, Ph.D.

Professor
Biography

Drop-in Hours

Fall 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

What is Travis’s story?

My research and teaching center on sport, media, and U.S. culture. I am especially interested in film and television, media industries, documentary, and how understandings of "high" and "low" culture figure into these topics.

I focus most of my research energy on writing books like these:

 

Aside from books, I have published or will soon publish articles in American ArtFilm History, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, ConvergenceTelevision & New Media, Popular CommunicationCommunication & SportJournal of Sport HistoryThe Moving Image, and various other journals and anthologies.

Beyond my scholarship, I have served as a contributor to and source for media outlets that include the New York Times, NPR’s Marketplace, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNN, WiredHuffPostThe Athletic and Deadspin.

I am currently associate editor of the Journal of Sport History and co-editor of the University of Illinois Press book series Studies in Sports Media.

If you're interested in learning more about my research, teaching, or editorial work, send me an email and we can talk. 

Recent Publications:

Vogan, T. (2025). The Reeducation of Bill Walton: From Weak-Kneed Vegetarian Socialist to Born Again Capitalist. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2025.2491526 

Vogan, T. “Pukey Jocks: BBS Productions’ Drive, He Said (1971) and the Cultural Revolution in Sports.” Journal of American Studies, 2025, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875824000665. 

Travis Vogan
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Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2011
Contact Information
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E342 Adler Journalism Building (AJB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States