Dr. Vicky Paraschak

Dr. Vicky Paraschak

E-mail: parasch@uwindsor.ca
Phone : (519) 253 - 3000 ext: 2445
Office: H.K. 118

B.P.E. (McMaster University)
M.H.K. (University of Windsor)
Ph.D. (University of Alberta)

Bio:
Dr. Vicky Paraschak has been a faculty member in Kinesiology since 1984. During this time, she has taught undergraduate courses primarily in Sociology of Sport, Government and Sport, Outdoor Recreation, Urban Outdoor Recreation and Social Construction of Leisure. At the graduate level she teaches Social Issues in Sport Management. Her research focuses on Aboriginal peoples and sport, and she has facilitated several workshops using a strengths perspective to help improve conditions for Aboriginal sport in Canada. She also has worked with the NWT government’s Sport and Recreation Division as a policy officer, and as a consultant facilitating various Directions Conferences. She recently completed a project linked to the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse Yukon, and is currently working with “at risk” students of promise in Windsor high schools, using the outdoors to enhance their success in school and life.

Areas of Research Interest

Aboriginal peoples and their physical cultural practices
Marginalized peoples, power relations and sport
Canadian government policy in sport and recreation
At risk youth and outdoor education

Current Research Funding

1. Sport Canada ($24,528) – Co-Facilitation of the First Aboriginal Women’s Roundtable on Sport with Dr. Janice Forsyth, Principal Applicant, February 22-24, 2008 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Key Scholarly Activities:

Paraschak, Victoria & Tirone, Susan. “Race and Ethnicity in Canadian Sport” in Jane Crossman (ed.), Canadian Sport Sociology, Second Edition. Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2008: 79-98.

Paraschak, Victoria. “Doing Race, Doing Gender: First Nations, ‘Sport’, and Gender Relations” in Kevin Young & Philip White (eds.), Sport and Gender in Canada, Second Edition. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2007: 137-154.

Misener, Katie & Paraschak, Victoria. “Fundraising Capacity in Canadian National Sport Organizations: Relationship Building and Gender.” Third Sector Review 12(2), 2006: 41-61.

Paraschak, Victoria & Heine, Michael. “Moving Into ‘Place’: Explorations into the Anthropology of Travel.” Avante 11 (2), 2005: 16-33.