The Stark Center is a research center housed within the Department of Kinesiology & Health Education. We are a unique combination of library, archive, and gallery/exhibit space.

The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports (Stark Center) was founded by UT faculty members Terry and Jan Todd who began collecting materials about physical culture and sports well …

During the Center’s first decade, Terry Todd watched with great pride as The Center grew into a world-renowned research center and library dedicated to the study of strength, fitness and general sports.

While the vast majority of the Stark Center’s holdings are in closed storage, our galleries and reading room are open to the public. Both the galleries and the reading room are open Monday-Friday, 9am …

With the assistance of our donors, the Stark Center has committed to making the contents of its unique collections available to the world through a wide range of digitization projects.

Above all, the Stark Center is a comprehensive library devoted to collecting and preserving the words of physical culturists, strongmen, naturopaths, weight lifters, and historians. The library is composed of …

Professor Jan Todd is the Director of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports and the current Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas …

Founded in 1990 by Terry and Jan Todd, Iron Game History is a non-profit academic journal published semi-annually under the auspices of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center, a division of the College of …

This scrapbook was compiled by Leona Kellum and includes events and people from the 1920s during her time as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. Leona Kellum married George A. Harris in …

Below is an overview of the variety of research tools available at the Stark Center. If you are not sure where to start, email or call us; we’re happy to talk through our resources with you. If you plan to visit …