Jamie Ivey

Jamie Ivey's work focuses on the overlap of the Cold War struggle with the global Anti-apartheid campaign, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. HIs dissertation tracked the Soviet Union's efforts to win African support for their Olympic project from 1976-1980 after the African boycott of the Montreal Olympic Games. He received his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, San Diego, in 2024 and taught there for several years, covering Russian and Soviet history as well as the Global History of Sport. His current work is on refining his dissertation into a book project on the same topic as well as understanding South African efforts to break out of isolation in different sports during the 1970s and 1980s.

Jamie has published in several journals, including the African Studies Review and the Journal of Olympic Studies, with a focus on African decolonization and sport. His work on how the political transition between Rhodesia/Zimbabwe influenced the National Olympic Committee won the Robert Barney Graduate Essay Competition in 2023, while his work on Muhammad Ali's unofficial diplomatic career in the late 1970s won the NASSH Essay competition.

Jamie teaches the History of Sport, Sociology of Sport, and other sports and society related classes for Physical Culture and Sports Studies section of the Kinesiology and Health Education Department.