Biography

Ryan Swanson is professor of history in honors at the University of New Mexico. He also directs the Lobo Scholars Program, an initiative that serves high achieving student athletes. Swanson is the author of The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete (2019) and When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime (2014), which won the 2015 Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) research award.
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