Bio

Tammy S. Gordon is Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program and a professor in the Integrative Humanities and Social Sciences Department at North Carolina State University, where she teaches interdisciplinary classes on leisure, communities, and transnational culture. Her teaching includes study abroad programs in Czech Republic and Japan. Her research focuses on the leisure communities in recent history and kinesthetic learning in the humanities, and she is the author of three books: Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life (Alta Mira Press, 2010), The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013), and The Mass Production of Memory: Leisure Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020). Her current research focuses on transnational historical memory and the growth of aikido dojos in the United States in the 20th century, and she recently published “‘Aikido Practitioners in Every Country Should Change and Unite with the Tradition’: Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Historical Memory, and the Internationalization of Aikido, 1948–1984” in the International Journal of the History of Sport. Dr. Gordon has. PhD and an MA in American Studies and is currently a graduate student in the MS program in Kinesiology and Recreation Administration at North Carolina Central University.

Graduate Advising

Dr. Gordon is not accepting new doctoral advisees at this time

Doctoral Advisees (Graduated):

JoCora Moore, PhD, ’25

Shima Hosseininasab, PhD, ’24

Matthew Champagne, PhD, ’24

Gevorg Vardanyan, PhD, ’22

Petros Apostopolopolous, PhD, ’21

Doctoral Advisees (Current):

Kawan Allen

Mandy Paige-Lovingood

Office Hours

• Fall 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:00