Marino, Michella M.

Michella M. Marino received her doctorate from the Department History of at UMass Amherst in May 2013. Her dissertation, Sweating femininity: women athletes, masculine culture, and American inequality from 1930 to the present, drew on extensive oral historical and archival research to examine how feminist women negotiated the cultural boundaries surrounding gender to carve out identities as women, athletes, and mothers. Focusing on women's participation in two sports, basketball and roller derby, Marino wrote that her goal was to "explain the tension between women's representation and agency, between cultural constructs and women's lives, between images of women and their individual identities."

Marino is currently an Assistant Professor of American History at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska.

From the guide to the Michella M. Marino Collection MS 812., 2011-2012, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)