Profile for Eileen Narcotta-Welp

Research and publishing

Henderson, C., & Narcotta-Welp, E. (accepted). “Tricorns and Rainbows: Contestation over Practices, Identities, and Feminism in U.S. Women’s National Team Fan Spaces.” In Adam Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite, Andrew Grainger, and Jule Brice (Eds.) The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Events, Issues, and Controversies.

Narcotta-Welp, E., & Erickson, E. (January 2025). “Act As If”: Allison Feaster, the Politics of Inclusion, and Achieving the American Dream in the National Basketball Association. In Robert Cvornyek (Ed.) African American Athletes in Boston Sport.

Narcotta-Welp, E. (2024). “(Re)centering Boston Sport History: An Autobiographical Glimpse of Seven African-American Athletes Who Are Shaping Boston Sport. In Robert Cvornyek (Ed.) Playing to be Heard: Boston’s Black Athletes, Essays on Identity, Performance, and Activism.

Narcotta-Welp, E., & Cavalier, B. (2023). "A Community of Athletic Pariahs?: Guilt, Shame, and Social Control in the Covid-19 Pandemic. In David Andrews and Holly Thorpe (Eds.) The Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture in a Global Pandemic: Critical Diffractions.

TePoel, D., & Narcotta-Welp, E. (2023). "Stealing Signs: Technology, Governmentality, and Surveillance In and Outside the Game." In Jonathon Silverman (Ed.) Trashed Canned: The Weird, Unprecedented, Outrageous Houston Astros Cheating Scandal.

Narcotta-Welp, E. (2021). “She’s the Man”: Michelle Akers’ “Unruly” Body and the “Potentiality" for Queer Failure in the Early Development of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.  Soccer & Society, 23 (2), 187-200.

Narcotta-Welp, E., & TePoel, D. (2021). “Tuesdays with Susan”: Reflections on the Lessons and Legacy of “Birrellian” Approaches to Sport and Film. Journal of Sport History, 48 (2), 151-165.

Narcotta-Welp, E. (2021). Closing the Soccer Frontier: The Beautiful Game’s American Past and Potential for the Future.  In C. Bolsmann and G. Kioussis (Eds.) Soccer Frontiers, 1863-1913: Immigrants, Industries, and Individuals.  Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 291-302..

Narcotta-Welp, E., & Baeth, A. (2021). “You Come at the Queen, You Best Not Miss”: Reading Post-Colonial Representations of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team During the 2019 World Cup. In Molly Yannity and Danielle Sarver-Coombs (Eds.) 2019 Women's World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer's Biggest Stage. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 73-92.

TePoel, D., & Narcotta-Welp, E. (2020). Responses from the “White Moderate” in Sport to Black Lives Matter: Echoes from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Sport & Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Politics, 24 (5), 697-714.

Narcotta-Welp, E. (2017). Going Solo: The Spectre of the 1999ers and Hope Solo as the ‘Conscious Pariah.’ Sport in Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Politics, 20, 1-17.

Narcotta-Welp, E. (2015). A Black Fly in White Milk: 1999 Women’s World Cup, Briana Scurry and the Politics of Inclusion. Journal of Sport History, 42 (3), 382-393.

Narcotta-Welp, E. (2015). “Media Portrayals of Women.” In M. Dodds and J. T. Reese (Eds.), Sports Leadership: A Concise Reference Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: Mission Bell Media.

Narcotta, E. M., Petersen, J. C., & Johnson, S. R. (2009). Mentoring Functions in NCAA Women’s Soccer Coaching Dyads. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 15 (3/4), 100-116.
*Received Journal’s Highly Commended Award. (2010).

Narcotta, E. M., Petersen, J. C., & Johnson, S. R. (2007). Abstract: Mentoring Effects on Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intent of Women’s Soccer Coaches. Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport, 78 (1), A115.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Black Baseball and Birmingham: ‘MLB at Rickwood Field, A Tribute to the Negro Leagues’ as Cultural Heritage. (2024) Presented at the North American Society for Sport History, Denver, Colorado, May 24-27, in collaboration with Dain TePoel.

“I Don’t Feel Like the ‘Other’”: The Boston Celtics, Allison Feaster, and the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion. (2023) To be presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, New Orleans, Louisiana, in collaboration with Elisabeth Erickson.

“‘The World Needs More Purpose’”: The PGA’s Merger, Monahan, Morals, and Money.” (2023). Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, New Orleans, Louisiana, in collaboration with Dain TePoel.

“The Reproduction of Racism in White Allyship in U.S. Sport. (2023) Presented at European Association for Sport Management, Belfast, Ireland,  in collaboration with Dain TePoel and Peter Campbell.

“Act as If”: The Politics of Achieving the American Dream in the National Basketball Association. (2023). Presented at the North American Society for Sport History, Washington, D.C. in collaboration with Elisabeth Erickson.

"Confronting the 'Great Stumbling Block'": A Historical Exploration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "White Moderate" in U.S. Sport" (2022). Presented at the North American Society for Sport History, Chicago, Illinois, in collaboration with Dain TePoel. 

Good White Moderates in the NBA's Racial Reckoning: From Donald Sterling and Don't Bring 'Them' to My Games to Adam Silver and Social Justice in the COVID Bubble (2021). Presented at the International Association of Communication in Sport's Virtual Conference, Clemson, South Carolina, in collaboration with Dain TePoel.

“Tuesdays with Susan”: Reflections on the Lessons and Legacy of “Birrellian” Approaches to Sport and Film (2021). Presented at the Pre-North American Society for Sport History Symposium, entitled: “Reading the Past Critically”, Iowa City, IA, in collaboration with Dain TePoel.

“You Come at the Queen, You Best Not Miss!”: The 2019 Women’s World Cup and Post-Colonial Representations of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (2019). Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, in collaboration with Anna Baeth.

“This is My Game, This is My Future, Watch Me Play”: The 1999 Women’s World Cup and the Construction of a Postfeminist Movement (2018). Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

She’s the Man: Michelle-Akers-Stahl and the Tenuous State of U.S. Soccer in the early 1990s (2017). Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Windsor, Ontario.

“Move Over Bitch”: Reasserting Men and Masculinity in the United States Soccer Federation (2017). Presented at the North American Society for Sport History Conference, Fullerton, California, May 26 – 29, 2017.

Going Solo: 2007 Women’s World Cup, Hope Solo and the Specter of the 1991ers (2016). Presented paper rat the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Tampa Bay, Florida.

Breaking the Barbie Mold?: Soccer Barbie, Mia Hamm, and the Politics of Exclusion (2015). Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“This is not your Mother’s NACWAA!”: Neoliberal Feminism, Lean In, and the National Association of Collegiate Women’s Athletic Administrators (2014). Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference in Portland, Oregon, in collaboration with Elisabeth Erickson.

A Black Fly in White Milk: Briana Scurry, Neoliberal Racism, and the 1999 Women’s World Cup (2014). Paper presented at the North American Society for Sport History Conference in Glen Wood Springs, Colorado.

Going Solo: The Paradoxical and Shifting (Re)Presentations of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (2013). Paper presented at the Jakobsen Graduate Conference (University of Iowa) in Iowa City, Iowa.

Cleats, Curves, and Ponytails: Athletic Celebrity and the Creation of a Women’s Soccer Imaginary (2012). Paper presented at the Community College Humanities Association Central Division Conference in Iowa City, Iowa.

Imagine Me This?: Mia Hamm and the Creation of a Women’s Soccer Imaginary (2012). Paper presented at the North American Society for Sport History Conference in Berkeley, California.

Going Once, Twice, Sold: The Recruiting Battle over Equivalency Sport Athletes (2011). Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mentoring Effects on Job Satisfaction and Occupational Turnover Intent of Assistant Soccer Coaches (2007). Poster presented at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) National Convention and Exposition in Baltimore, Maryland.