Dr. Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program in The College of New Rochelle’s School of Arts and Sciences, is supervisor of the Research Room for NBC’S broadcast of the Winter Games in Torino, Italy.  This will be Dr. Bass’s fifth Olympics working for NBC:  she was on site for Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002, and Athens 2004. This winter, Dr. Bass will be sending CNR her impressions of the Games for publication on a special "CNR at the Winter Olympic Games" section of the CNR Website at www.cnr.edu.

Her first book, Not the Triumph but the Struggle: the 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), focuses on the Mexico City Olympics, when track-and-field medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos defied the system by raising black-gloved fists at the flag as the “Star-Spangled Banner” was being played. Dr. Bass examines that protest, spotlighting the history of black athletes and media
coverage of athletic events. She recently published In The Game:  Race, Identity, and Sports in the 20th Century (Palgrave, 2005), a collection of essays on the global influence of sports on racial ideology. 

Dr. Bass received a Ph.D. with distinction from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999, with a specialization in U.S. History and a comparative field in Cultural Studies; an M.A. with distinction from Stony Brook in U.S. History in 1994; and a B.A. in History from Bates College in 1992.  She is an alumna of the Williams College/Mystic Seaport American Maritime Studies Program.