MSU Fellow

The first MSU fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Javier Pescador, Assistant Professor of History, for his proposal "Playing in America: Organized Sports and Mexican/Latino Communities in the Great Lakes Region, 1940-2001." The project analyzes the impact of organized sports on Mexican and Latino communities in Metro-Detroit and Chicago from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Professor Pescador argues that "organized sports among Mexican communities are forming strong roots with a U.S. working class and leisure culture that emphasizes hard work, discipline, manhood, individuality and competitiveness and reflects both shortcomings and aspirations of the Mexican/Latino experiences in the U.S." His CGLC fellowship will permit him to analyze interviews, oral histories, participant observations, archival and newspaper records to follow the history of five different soccer associations in Chicago and Detroit from 1940-2000.