The School of Kinesiology Graduate Studies Office proudly presents the following lectures during the spring 2023 semester. Please note that the first two lectures are in-person only, and the last lecture is via remote only.
Dr. Lisa Kaler
“Graduate Student Mental Health: Collective Action in the School of Kinesiology”
March 29, 2023 (Wednesday), 3:00pm – 4:00pm
This is an in-person only event.
Location: University Recreation and Wellness Center, Multipurpose 6
Host: Dr. Sarah Greising
Lisa S Kaler, PhD, is an expert in student mental health and wellbeing. Dr. Kaler integrates her background in student affairs, academic success, and critical research paradigms to advocate for systemic and sustainable support for positive graduate student mental health. She is an expert on undergraduate and graduate student mental health, courses related stress, and suicide in higher education. Dr. Kaler currently lectures in the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) and the Leadership Minor here at the University of Minnesota. Kaler earned her PhD in Higher Education from OLPD in 2021.
Dr. Rachel Allison
“Women’s World Cup Fandom: Identities, Expressions, and the Pursuit of Gender Equality”
April 17, 2023 (Monday), 1:00pm – 2:00pm
This is a remote-only event.
Zoom link: https://umn.zoom.us/j/92509778808?pwd=TldPYXlSTmlIWGFWZUVpWXpTbXFIdz09
Meeting ID: 925 0977 8808 | Passcode: vM9DA5
Host: Dr. Dunja Antunovic
Dr. Rachel Allison joined the faculty at Mississippi State University in 2014 after receiving her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a scholar of gender and sport, and has focused primarily on the selling and marketing of women’s professional sport in the United States. She is the author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer, published in 2018 with Rutgers University Press. More recently, she received a FIFA Research Scholarship to study the perspectives and experiences of fans attending the 2019 Women’s World Cup.
Dr. Michael Joyner
“Exercise & Experiments of Nature”
April 28, 2023 (Friday), 1:30pm – 2:30pm
This is an in-person only event.
Location: University Recreation and Wellness Center, Multipurpose 6
Host: Dr. Don Dengel
Dr. Michael Joyner has broad-based interests related to integrative physiology in humans, and he also practices clinical medicine as an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic. His specific areas of expertise include autonomic control of circulation, muscle, and skin blood flow, as well as exercise, oxygen transport, and metabolic regulation in humans. Joyner’s work has been continuously funded by the NIH since the early 1990s. During the COVID-19 pandemic he repurposed his lab and led the U.S. Expanded Access Program for Convalescent Plasma and has an emerging interest in passive immunity and antibody therapy for infectious diseases. In addition to his funded work, Dr. Joyner also has significant expertise in the physiology of human performance, including the original work that led to the sub-2-hour marathon.
