Elsey is a professor of history and she studies the history of gender, popular culture, and politics in 20th-century Latin America. She is recognized as an authority on Latin American football, or soccer. She is the author of Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth Century Chile, Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America, and Losing to Win: Labor and Politics in Latin American Sport. Elsey has published many articles in academic journals and anthologies. She also served as a senior editor for Oxford University Press’ Research Essays in Latin American History: Southern Cone. In 2018, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award in Argentina.
Co-sponsored by the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the Soccer, Community, Innovation, Politics (SCIP) VIP, The Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society, The Global Development Program, and The Neal Family Endowment.
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