About Bruce
Ph.D. (History), York University
M.A. (History) York University
A.M. (Adult Education) University of Chicago
B.A. (Political Economy) University of Toronto
History and political economy of Canadian sport and physical activity
Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games
Sport and Public Policy
Sport for development and peace
BOOKS
Hall, A., Kidd, B., & Vertinsky, P. (2024). Educating the Body: A History of Physical Education in Canada. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press.)
Kidd, B. (2021). A runner’s journey. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
Darnell, S., Field, R., and Kidd, B. (2019). The History and Politics of Sport for Development: Activists, Ideologues and Reformers. (London: Palgrave Macmillan).
Kidd, B. & Torres, C.R. (Eds.) (2017). Historicizing the Pan American Games. (London: Routledge).
Kidd. B. (2014). ‘Critical support’ for sport. (London: Routledge).
Dichter, H. & Kidd, B. (2012). (Eds.), Olympic Reform Ten Years After. (London: Routledge).
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Kidd, B. (2022). ‘Every athlete an anthropologist: John MacAloon’s vision for sport’, Journal of Olympic Studies, 3 (2), 28-43.
Nothen, G. & Kidd, B. (2022). ‘Estranged: Notes on the Historical Development of the Relationship between Players and Manufacturers of Ice Hockey Equipment in Canada’, International Journal of History of Sport, 39 (1), 72-91.
Kerr, G., Kidd, B., & Donnelly, P. (2020). ‘One step forward, two steps back: the struggle for child protection in Canadian sport’, Social Sciences, 9 (5), 68.
Norman, M., Donnelly, P. & Kidd, B. (2020)., ‘Gender inequality in Canadian interuniversity sport: participation opportunities and leadership positions from 2010-11 to 2016-17,’ International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 10, 1080.
Kidd, B. (2018). ‘Towards responsible policy-making in international sport: reforming the medical and scientific commissions’, Sport in Society, 21 (5), pp. 773-787.
Field, R. and Kidd, B. (2016). ‘Canada and the Pan American Games’. International Journal of History of Sport, 33 (1-2), 217-239.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Kidd., B. (2022). ‘Sport and International Relations’, Murray Phillips, Douglas Booth, and Carly Adams (Eds.), Routledge Handbook to Sport History (London: Routledge), pp. 144-159.
Kidd, B. (2021). ‘Ethical governance and the Olympic Movement’, in Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous (Eds,), Palgrave Handbook of Globalization and Sport (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 649-671.
Kidd. B. (2020). ‘The Olympic and Paralympic Games and Human Rights’, in Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Borja Garcia and Benoit Séguin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on the Olympic and Paralympic Games (London: Routledge), pp. 334-344.
Kidd, B. (2016). 'The army's presence will be obvious’: Montreal 1976. In V. Bajc (Ed.), Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Kidd, B. (2015). 'The Elizabeth Street Playground Revisited', in J. Lorinc, M. McClelland, E. Scheinberg & T. Taylor (Eds.) The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Community (Toronto: Coach House Press), pp. 183-187.
Donnelly, P. & Kidd, B. (2015). ‘Two solitudes: grass roots sport and high performance sport in Canada’, in R. Bailey and M. Talbot (Eds.), Elite Sport and Sport For All: Bridging the Two Cultures (London: Routledge), pp. 57-71.
Kidd, B. (2013). Homage to the Sisterhood’, in G. Demers, L. Greaves, S. Kirby & M. Lay (Eds.), Playing It Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada (Ottawa: Feminist History Society), pp. 15-26.
Kidd, B. (2013). ‘Sport and Peace’, in K. Olin (Ed.), Sport, Peace and Development: International Worker Sport 1913-2013 (Vienna: SportVerlag), pp. 40-63.
Kidd, B. (2013). ‘Canada and Sport for Development and Peace’, in L. Thibault & J. Harvey (Eds.), Sport Policy in Canada (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press), pp. 69-94.
RESEARCH REPORTS
Kidd, B. & Norman, M. (2015). ‘Gender Equality in the Commonwealth Games Part 2: Glasgow 2014’, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, University of Toronto.
Kidd, B. & Norman, M. (2014). Gender Equality in the Commonwealth Games Part 1: A Historical Perspective, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, University of Toronto.
Donnelly, P., Norman, P. & Kidd, B. (2013). Gender Equity in Canadian Interuniversity Sport: A Biannual Report (No. 2), Centre for Sport Policy Studies, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto.
Donnelly, P., Kidd, B., and Norman, M. (2011). Gender Equity in Canadian Interuniversity Sport: A Biannual Report, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto.
Athletics Canada Hall of Fame, 2014.
Bruce Kidd Track, Regent Park, 2016.
Builder, Toronto Sports Hall of Fame, 2018.
Distinguished Scholar Award, International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, 2020
Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award, University of Toronto, 2021.
Sport History and Social Justice Award, North American Society for Sport History, 2022.
Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society of Olympic Historians, 2022.
Bruce Kidd Field House, University of Toronto, 2022.