Seray Cagla Keles Elbasan has won the student award (MA category) for the outstanding Barbara Brown Paper at the North American Sociology of Sport conference.
Her paper entitled Climbing as a Woman: A Feminist Phenomenological Exploration of Turkish Women Climbers’ Embodied Experiences was recognized at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), held in both Vancouver and Seattle, Nov. 6-8th, 2025. NASSS is a leading international scholarly community that exists to promote, stimulate, and encourage the sociological study of play, games, sport and contemporary physical culture.
Seray Cagla Keles Elbasan
Master of Arts (MA) | Health, Outdoor and Physical Education
Dissertation Title | Gendered experiences in climbing: how being a woman changes the whole experience of the sport
Supervisor: Dr. LeAnne Petherick
Committee Member: Dr. Shawn Forde
Committee Member: Dr. jay johnson (Professor at University of Manitoba)