Ann Chisholm, Ph.D.
Research Scholar since 2007
achisholm@ucla.edu

Ann Chisholm received her PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1993. 

She has conducted and published research in Gender Studies, U.S. History, Sports Studies, Cultural Studies, and Film Studies. 

Her current work interrogates moments of historical conjuncture that have shaped sexed, raced, and classed materializations of subjectivity. 

Ladies of the House: Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women and Incorporations of Femininity examines intersections among exercise, health and education reform, female anatomy and physiology, quotidian gendered corporeal practices, and identity in the United States between 1830-1870.   Manuscript completed.

Missing Persons and Bodies of Evidence: Body Doubling in U.S. Cinema.  This study investigates the history and dynamics of body doubling in U.S. cinema and television.  Manuscript in progress.

Susie.  A documentary film that explores family, race, and intimacy in rural Virginia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Conducting preliminary research and interviews.

"Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women and Incorporations of Buoyancy:      Contouring Femininity, Shaping Sex, and Regulating Middle-Class Consumption."  Journal of Women's History.  Scheduled 20.3 (Sept. 2008). 

 "The Disciplinary Dimensions of Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women."  International Journal of the History of Sport 24.4 (April 2007): 430-469.

 "Gymnastics and the Reconstitution of Republican Motherhood Among True Women of (Quasi-)Civic Virtue."  International Journal of the History of Sport 23 (Dec, 2006): 1275-1313.

"Incarnations and Practices of Feminine Rectitude: Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women."  Journal of Social History 38 (Spring 2005): 737-763.

"Acrobats, Contortionists, and Cute Children: The Promise and Perversity of U.S. Women's Gymnastics."  Signs 27.2 (Winter 2002): 415-450.         

"Missing Persons and Bodies of Evidence."  Camera Obscura 15.1 (July 2000): 123-161.

 "Modern Visuality and Body Doubling in Contemporary Cinema." Aura 4.1 (May 1998): 46-75.