John Soares
Department of History
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
- Sports history
- Olympic history
- History聽of U.S.聽foreign policy
Soares in the News
Chicago Tribune
December 17, 2025
John Soares teaches history at the University of Notre Dame.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
November 03, 2024
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, Notre Dame history professor John Soares writes in a guest column.
Chicago Tribune
June 26, 2023
John Soares teaches history, including history of sport, at the University of Notre Dame.
U.S. News & World Report
February 22, 2022
“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 Notre Dame who studies Olympic history.
The Washington Post
December 13, 2021
“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 Notre Dame who has written about politics and the Olympics, recently told me.
The New York Times
November 18, 2021
“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 Notre Dame who has written about the Olympics.
Vox
June 01, 2021
“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 Notre Dame, said.