Dr Dave Nadel
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Dave Nadel lectures in the undergraduate subjects Sport and Society and World of Sport. Dr Nadel is a graduate of Monash University where he did his doctorate on The Professionalisation and Commercialisation of Australian Football: 1975-1996, which covered the transformation of the Victorian Football League to the Australian Football League. He has taught at Victoria University and the University of Melbourne.
Dr Nadel has contributed chapters to two major books on Australian Football, The Australian Game of Football : since 1858 edited by Geoff Slattery, and More Than a Game: an Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football edited by Rob Hess and Bob Stewart. Other recent publications include “A League of His Own: John Elliott and Ian Collins’ Vision of National Football” in Football Fever: Crossing Boundaries edited by Rob Hess, Matthew Nicholson and Bob Stewart and “A Perverse Fascination with Squalor and Filth: The Demise of Home Grounds in the AFL” in The Imaginary Grandstand : Identity and Narrative in Australian Sport edited by Bernard Whimpress
Dave Nadel is a former executive member of the Australian Society for Sports History and a regular contributor to its Journal, Sporting Traditions. His most recent conference presentations include “Country and Eastern: the influence of demographic change on football in Gippsland” presented at Sporting Traditions XVI the Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for Sports History, Canberra, 2007. “The Promise of Romance: an examination of the Australian Football League’s father-son rule. presented at Football Fever : Identities and Allegiances, Victoria University City Campus, 2006.“Zoning and the Draft Revisited” presented at Football Fever : Moving the Goalposts, Essendon Football Club, 2005. “National Leagues: The Tyranny of Distance” presented at Sporting Traditions XV, Melbourne, 2005
Research interests
Dave Nadel’s research interests include Popular Culture; Sports History with a special emphasis on Australian Football; Labour History; Social stratification and social change in the context of Australian politics (class, gender and race) and regionalism in the context of Australian history and sports history with particular emphasis on South West Victoria.
