Dr. Carly Adams
Dr. Carly Adams (she/her) is a professor, Board of Governors Research Chair, and Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. As a social historian and an advocate for oral history, Dr. Adams explores community, resiliency, and gender in her research, with a focus on sport and leisure experiences. She currently leads the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, with Dr. Darren Aoki, a community-based oral history project that explores the histories of Japanese Canadians in southern Alberta. She is the author of Queens of the Ice (Lorimer), editor of Sport and Recreation in Canadian History (Human Kinetics), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport History (Routledge). Dr. Adams is the Editor of Sport History Review (2016-2024), and she was the recipient of the North American Society for Sport History 2023 Ron and Sue Smith Service Award.