2022 Routledge AWARD

We are pleased to announce the 2022 Routledge Award, recognising contributions to sport history, has been awarded to Dr Helge Christian Pedersen, of Norge Arktiske Universitet, recognising pioneering work in Sámi sport histories and analyses of coloniality and Indigeneity in the field.

Heather Dichter Wins 2019 ISHPES Award

At the Congress in Madrid, Spain, ISHPES honored Heather Dichter as the 2019 ISHPES Award winner. The American scholar Heather Dichter, PhD, is Associate Professor at the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where she teaches in the Leicester Castle Business School and is a member of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture.

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Awards

The International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport sponsors two annual awards and a travel fund for graduate students to attend the ISHPES Congress and ISHPES Conference.


The ISHPES AWARD is presented to a sport historian who has a particular interest in and has published pioneering work on the general theme of the ISHPES Congress. The award may also be presented as a tribute to a scholar with a life-long record of research in sport history. The prize is accompanied by a certificate and an invitation to accept the award and present the ISHPES Award Lecture at the Congress.

One candidate will be selected by the Awards Committee and recommended to the ISHPES executive.

Past ISHPES Award Winners


In 2012 Routledge began a partnership with ISHPES to support a keynote speaker at the ISHPES Congress or Seminar. The ROUTLEDGE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AWARD WINNER is recognized at the annual ISHPES Congress or Seminar.

Past Routledge Keynote Speaker Award Winners


The GIGLIOLA GORI AWARD is awarded for an unpublished essay of outstanding quality in the field of sport history. Eligible scholars must be a member of ISHPES and a registered student (undergraduate or graduate) at the time of the Seminar or within one year of receiving a having graduated from a program of higher education. The essay must be submitted in ENGLISH and the text itself (including notes and bibliography) must not exceed 8,000 words. The main criteria for selection will be based on originality, the scientific quality of the research and the value of the study from the perspective of international sport history.

The award winner will receive the 1000 € prize, free registration at the Congress or Seminar and a year’s membership to ISHPES. His/her paper will be published in The International Journal of the History of Sport and the winner, together with any other entrant whose work is recognized by the committee for its quality, will receive a diploma that will be presented during the Congress.

Essays must be submitted to the chair of the Awards Committee. See details here.

Past Gigliola Gori Award Winners