Anne Barjolin-Smith

Anne Barjolin-Smith is a Doctor of American Studies specializing and actively participating in lifestyle sports. She travels worldwide to study the impact of these American-made sports on culturally diverse snowboarding and surfing regions.

She is an independent researcher currently focusing on the notion of coloniality in lifestyle sports and surf music.

📚 Her latest publications include:

"Surfing wanderlust: Surf tripping bodies as cultural bearers. In N. Maruo-Schröder, S. Schäfer-Althaus, & U. Schaffers (Eds.), Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice (1st ed.). Routledge & CRC Press, 2023.

"Californiality rhymes with coloniality: Surf music’s historical erasure of United States regionalisms." University of Freiburg’s Yearbook, Volume 66, 2021.

“Snowboarding youth culture and the Winter Olympics: Co-evolution in an American-driven show,” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2020.