Anna H. Lathrop, EdD

Special Advisor, Office of the Provost (primary), and Kinesiology.

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Anna H. Lathrop is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. Senior Administrative positions held have included: Associate Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences; Interim Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences; Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning; Vice-Provost, Teaching, Learning, and Student Success; and Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President, Students.

She currently serves as Special Advisor to the President and Provost, and Acting Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning.

Anna’s areas of research include: the history of physical education and sport; gender and sport; children and physical activity; educational biography; scholarship in teaching and learning; and experiential education.

Her distinctions include the Brock University Distinguished Teaching Award (2000); the OCUFA Award for Outstanding University Teaching (2000); the 3M Teaching Fellowship Award of Canada (2001); the Ontario Ministry Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award (2007); the Faculty of Applied Health Science Distinguished Alumni Award (2008); and the Chancellor’s Chair in Teaching Excellence Award (2012).

Research Interests

  • History of physical education and sport
  • Gender and sport
  • Children and physical activity
  • Educational biography
  • Scholarship in teaching and learning
  • Experiential Education

Professional affiliations and accreditation/certification

  • 3M Teaching Fellowship of Canada
  • Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
  • Ontario Committee on Student Affairs

Publications

O’Connell, T. S., Lathrop, A. H., & Pilato, K. (2025). “Confident, supportive, and capable:” A retrospective analysis of an outdoor orientation program. Journal of Experiential Education, 48(3), 466-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259241290464

O’Connell, T. S., Lathrop, A. H., & Pilato, K. A. (2024). “My favourite self:” A retrospective analysis of an outdoor orientation program. Journal of Experiential Education.  https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259231226389

Pennisi, S., Lathrop, A.H., & Pilato, K. (2023). How can practitioner action research support the design, implementation and evaluation of on-campus mental health and addiction services. Educational Action Research, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2023.2229402

O’Connell, T.S., Lathrop, A.H., & Howard, R.A. (2019). Sense of place and first-year student     transition: Fostering capacity through outdoor orientation experiences. Journal of Research in Outdoor Education, 11 (4): 287-300.

Lathrop, A., Francis, N. (2018). From ‘Dancing Girls’ to ‘Elder Statement’: A History of the CAHPER Dance Committee. Physical and Health Education Journal, 84 (2): 1-24.

Howard, R.A., O’Connell, T.S., & Lathrop, A.H. (2016). Community development, transitional value and institutional affinity: The impact of an outdoor orientation program on the first-year university student experience. The Journal of Experiential Education, 39 (1): 45-58.

Prins, S., & Lathrop, A. H. (2014) Institutional strategies that foster academic integrity: A Faculty-based case study. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, Volume VII, (1) 1-7.

Francis, N., & Lathrop, A. H. (2014). Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush:’ Problematizing ‘progress’ in Ontario’s elementary school dance curriculum: 1900-2000 The Journal of Dance Education, 14 (1): 27-34.

Lathrop, A. H., O’Connell, T. S., & Howard, R. A. (2012). The impact of wilderness orientation on first-year student perceptions of life effectiveness and campus integration. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, Volume V, 92-97.

Lathrop, A. H., & Francis, N. (2011) ‘Children who drill, seldom are ill;’ Fitness, movement and sport: The rise and fall of the ‘female tradition’ in Ontario elementary physical education curriculum (1850s to 1990s). Historical Studies in Education, 23 (1): 61-85.

Lathrop, A. H. (2006). Herland revisited: Narratives of motherhood, domesticity and physical emancipation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s feminist utopia. Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography, 23 (1): 47-63.

Lazerte, D., & Lathrop, A. H. (2006). ‘Hot links to cool stuff:’ Website technology in the elementary school physical education classroom. Health and Physical Activity Journal, 72 (2): 14-20.

Lathrop, A. H. (2006). Teaching how to question: Participation rubrics. The Teaching Professor, 20 (2): 4-5.

Stevens, J., Lathrop, A. H., & Bradish, C. (2005). Tracking Generation Y: A contemporary Sport consumer profile. Journal of Sport Management, 19 (1): 254-277.

Murray, N., & Lathrop, A. H. (2004). ‘Seeing with understanding:’ Observing movement for effective pedagogy. Health and Physical Activity Journal, 71 (1): 12-19.

Bradish, C., Stevens, J., & Lathrop, A. H. (2003). National versus regional sport marketing: An Interpretation of ‘think globally, act locally.’ International Journal for Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 5 (3): 207-223.

Stevens, J., Lathrop, A. H., & Bradish, C. (2003). Who is your sport hero? Implications for athlete endorsement strategies. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 12 (2): 72-79.

Lathrop, A. H. (2002). Contested terrain: ‘Movement’ and gender in Ontario elementary Physical education; 1940-1970. Ontario History, XCIV (2): 165-182.

Lathrop, A. H., & Murray, N. (2002). Collaborative learning and educational gymnastics: Strategies for success. Physical and Health Education Journal, 68 (2): 20-27.

Forbes, S., Stevens, D., & Lathrop, A. H. (2002). A pervasive silence: Lesbophobia and team cohesion in sport: Canadian Woman Studies, 21 (3): 32-35.

Toepell, A., Cole, N., & Lathrop, A. H. (2002). The ‘high touch’ classroom: Strategies for small group learning in large class contexts. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 6 (1): 11-15.

Lathrop, A. H. (2001). ‘Strap a compass and knife and axe to your belt’: The role of wilderness training in the socialization of women at the Margaret Eaton School, 1925-1942.  Sport History Review, 32: 110-125.

Bradish, C., Lathrop, A. H., & Sedgwick, W. (2001). Girl power: Examining the female pre-teen and teen as a distinct segment of the sport marketplace. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 10 (1):19-24.

Lathrop, A. H., & Drake, V. (2000). Teaching elementary and secondary school games:  A common theoretical framework. Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal, 66 (22): 16-21.

Murray, N., & Lathrop, A. H. (2000). Teaching flight. Teaching Elementary Physical Education Journal, 11 (4): 19-23.

Nilges, L., & Lathrop, A. H. (2000). Eleven safety tips for educational gymnastics. Teaching Elementary Physical Education Journal, 11 (4): 10.

Lathrop, A. H., & Murray, N. (2000). Assessment in educational gymnastics. Teaching Elementary Physical Education Journal, 11 (4): 28-31.

Lathrop, A. H. (2000). Portrait of ‘a physical’: A case study of Elizabeth Pitt Barron (1904-1998). Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, 11 (2): 131-147.

Lathrop, A. H., & Connolly, M. (2000). Feminist theory and collaborative learning in seminar contexts.  International Journal for Academic Development, 5 (1): 61-67.

Lathrop, A. H. (1999).  Revisioning life history: The intersections of interview and autobiography in the life narrative of Elizabeth Pitt Barron (1904-1998). Vitae Scholasticae:  The Journal of Educational Biography, 18 (1): 47-62.

Lathrop, A. H. & Drake, V. (1998).  The Canadian climber: Resurrection or rejection of a Canadian innovation?  Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal, 64 (4): 14 19.

Lathrop, A. H. (1998).  Elizabeth Pitt Barron: Connections to R. Tait McKenzie. Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal, 64 (3): 22.

Lathrop, A. H., & Drake, V. (1998).  Educational gymnastics: Equipment use and lesson progressions in the elementary school.  Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal, 64 (3): 8-15.

Lathrop, A. H., & Murray, N. (1998).  A discipline under siege: Who took the ‘physical’ out of education?  Avante, 4 (2): 92-100.

Lathrop, A. H. (1997).  Elegance and expression, sweat and strength: A portrait of the Margaret Eaton Schools (1901-1941) through the life histories of Emma Scott Nasmith, Mary G. Hamilton and Florence A. Somers. Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography, 16 (1): 69-92.

Lathrop, A. H., & Drake, V. (1996).  Evaluation procedures in educational gymnastics. Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal, 62 (4): 9-12.

Connolly, M., & Lathrop, A. H. (1996).  Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Rudolf Laban: An interactive appropriation of parallels and resonances. Human Studies, 20 (1): 27-45.

Lathrop, A. H., & Murray, N. (1996).  Movement education: relevance in the post-modern age. International Journal of Physical Education, 33 (2): 70-75.

Book Chapters/Book Contributions:

O’Connell, T. S., Lathrop, A. H., & Howard, R. A. (2023). University outdoor orientation programs. In S. Priest, S. Ritchie & D. Scott (Eds.). Outdoor Learning in Canada. Open Resource Textbook. Retrieved from  http://www.olic.ca/

Taks, M., Stevens, J., Scheerder, J., Lathrop, A. H. & Bradish, C (2019). A comparison of Canadian and Belgian youth sport participation profiles. In Zhang & Pitts (Eds.), Globalized sport management in diverse cultural contexts, pp. 29-52. Routledge, New York.

Stevens, J & Lathrop, A. H. (2014). Boom or bust? The impact of the 1972 Summit Series on the development of women’s hockey in Canada. In B. Kennedy (Ed.), Coming Down the Mountain: Rethinking the 1972 Summit Series. Hamilton, ON: Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, pp. 143-159.

Lathrop, A. H. (2013). Teaching how to question: Participation rubrics. In M. Weimer (Ed.), Grading Strategies for the College Classroom: A Collection of Articles for Faculty. Madison, WI: Magna Publications, pp. 67-70.

Mandigo, J., & Lathrop, A. H. (2014). Physical literacy and relevance to physical education curriculum and pedagogy in Canada. In M. Chin & C. R. Edington (Eds.), Physical Education and Health: Global Perspectives and Best Practices. Urbana: IL: Sagamore, pp. 93-108.

Mandigo, J., Corlett, J., & Lathrop, A. H. (2012) Physical education in the 21st Century: To infinity and beyond? In E. Singleton & A. Varpalotai (Eds.), Pedagogy for the moving body. London, Ontario: Althouse, pp. 15-44.

Lathrop, A. H. (2008). Collegial conversations: The other side of silence. In B. Warland (Ed.), Silences in teaching and learning/ Les voix du silene dans l’academie. Society for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education, Quebec: Gauvin Press, p. 42.

Hallman, D., & Lathrop, A. H. (2006). Sustaining the fire of “scholarly passion:” Mary G. Hamilton (1883-1972) and Irene Poelzer (1926-). In E. Smyth and P. Bourne (Eds.), Women Teaching, Women Learning: Historical Perspectives. Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., pp. 45-64.

Adams, L., & Lathrop, A. H. (2005). Passion for teaching in higher education: Two people who caught it. In Marilyn Lerch (Ed.), Making a Difference/ Toute la difference: A Celebration of 3M Teaching Fellowship. Hamilton: Centre for Leadership and Learning, McMaster University, pp. 160-164.

Lathrop, A. H. (2001). From elegance and expression to sweat and strength: Canadian women enter the profession of physical education in the twentieth century. In L. McLean and S. Cook (Eds.), Framing Our Past: Constructing Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 194-199.

Teaching

  • Foundations of Movement Studies