91³Ô¹Ï

John Soares

Department of History

Office
403 Decio Faculty Hall
91³Ô¹Ï, IN 46556
Email
jsoares@nd.edu

Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

  • Sports history
  • Olympic history
  • History of U.S. foreign policy

Soares in the News

John Soares teaches history at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Bipartisan bridge-builders like the late GOP Sen. Edward Brooke — who brokered former Cleveland ace Luis Tiant’s unexpected 1975 reunion with his Cuban parents while Tiant was pitching in the World Series for the Red Sox — are rare today, partly because the parties themselves have grown more ideologically coherent, 91³Ô¹Ï history professor John Soares writes in a guest column.

John Soares teaches history, including history of sport, at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï.

“Dictatorships tend to try to use the Olympics as the equivalent of an international seal of approval,” says John Soares, a professor at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï who studies Olympic history. 

“What Biden is doing, rather than opening himself to criticism of punishing his own athletes more than the Chinese government, is sending a diplomatic signal of disapproval,” John Soares, a professor at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï who has written about politics and the Olympics, recently told me.

“Regimes have a history of treating their hosts of the Olympics with an international seal of approval for whatever they’re doing,” said John Soares, a history professor at 91³Ô¹Ï who has written about the Olympics. 

“When you look at Berlin in 1936, there is no question Jesse Owens made a mockery of Nazi racial ideology,” John Soares, a professor of history at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, said.