Toni Bruce

Toni Bruce
Bruce in 2023
Alma mater	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology of sport
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	What we talk about when we talk about the locker room: Women sportswriters' stories  (1995)
Doctoral students	Barbara Cox[1]

Toni Bruce is a New Zealand sociology academic, specialising in the sociology of sport. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.^[2] She gained her Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois in the USA. She previously worked at the University of New Hampshire (USA) University of Canberra (Australia) and University of Waikato (New Zealand). While teaching at the University of Auckland Bruce participated in many fields of research. Her main topics involve sports media, gender issues, nationalism, race/ethnicity and disability. Bruce is an expert in many different topics including journalism, media analysis and theory, and the impacts of sociological aspects of identity on people's experiences. She supervises students throughout the Masters and the Doctorate programs that include her main topics of research.^[3]