Helen J Lenskyj

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is a Canadian sociologist and historian. Born and raised in Australia, she did graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she then became a professor. A scholar of Olympic studies, she wrote several sport history books such as Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality (1986), Olympic Industry Resistance (2008), Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics (2014), and Gender, Athletes' Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (2018), as well as an autobiography called A Lot to Learn (2005).