Name: Dr.

Jordan Koch

Education:
Postdoc, University of Alberta (Faculty of Nursing)
Postdoc, University of Saskatchewan (Department of Psychiatry)
PhD, University of Alberta (Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation)
MSc, University of Calgary (Faculty of Kinesiology)
BA, University of Western Ontario (School of Kinesiology, with a concentration in history)

Key words: The sociology of sport; cultural studies; sport-for-development programming;

ethnographic methods; critical pedagogy in physical and health education; sport history.

Summary or bullet points:

Dr. Jordan Koch has been an Assistant Professor at McGill University since 2017. At present,
Jordan’s research examines the delivery of sport-for-development programming in various
socio-cultural and economic-political contexts, including First Nations and also in low-income
communities in Montreal. Jordan worked for several years as an ethnographer at a harm
reduction facility in downtown Edmonton where he collaborated with a multidisciplinary team
of health researchers to examine how underserved (often homeless) youth accessed the
different sport and recreation programs they were provided. His research has been funded by
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research, and was also recognized by the Sport Information Research Centre for the
‘Impact of Sport on the Community’ category.

Courses taught at McGill:

Health Education: EDKP 204

Historical Perspectives: EDKP 394

Select Publications:
Koch, J., & Scherer, J. (2016). Redd alert! (Re)Articulating Aboriginal gang violence in western
Canada. aboriginal policy studies, 6(1), 34-62.

Scherer, J., Koch, J., & Holt, N. (2016). The uses of an inner-city sport-for-development
program: Dispatches from the (real) creative class. Sociology of Sport Journal, 33(3), 185-
198.

Holt, N., Scherer, J., & Koch, J. (2015). Using masculine capital to understand the role of sport
programs in the lives of men from a Western Canadian inner city. Psychology of Sport
and Exercise, 37, 523-533.

Koch, J., Scherer, J., & Holt, N. (2015). Urban outcasts, disposable bodies, and embodied
research in a Western Canadian ‘arriviste’ city. Cultural Studies  Critical
Methodologies, 15(1), 32-44.
Holt, N., Scherer, J., & Koch, J. (2013). An ethnographic study of issues surrounding the
provision of sport opportunities to young men from a western Canadian inner-city.
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14, 538-548.

Koch, J., & Brown, D. (2011). Ringleaders: Olympic athletes who donned, inked, and
embodied the Olympic logo in the Cold War. Olympika: The International Journal of
Olympic Studies, 20, 1-30.

Scherer, J., & Koch, J. (2010). Living with war: Sport, citizenship, and the cultural politics of
post-9/11 Canadian identity. Sociology of Sport Journal, 27(1), 1-29.