Jules Boykoff

At the college level, Boykoff played two years for the University of Wisconsin before crossing to the University of Portland. After graduating he was drafted in 1993 by indoor soccer team Portland Pride of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). He also played with National Professional Soccer League team Milwaukee Wave. In all he played four seasons of indoor professional soccer.[1][2][3]

At the age of 19, he played for the United States men's national under-23 soccer team in the 1990 Toulon Tournament.[4] The United States Soccer Federation entered the 1990, 1991 and 1992 editions in preparation for the 1992 Summer Olympics football tournament.

Boykoff is currently a professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University, Oregon.[5] In 2007 and 2009, students selected him as recipient of the Trombley Award for teaching excellence.[6] He also held a visiting professor position at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004–2005 school year.[7]

Boykoff has been called “one of the biggest names in international Olympic Games academia."[8] Boykoff runs The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon.[9][10]

Common course topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry.[11] In November 2006, he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, "COP 12".[9][12] In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore mentioned work Boykoff co-authored with his brother Maxwell Boykoff (Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute) on US media coverage of global warming.[9]

Boykoff is also co-editor of The Tangent, a politics and art zine.[13]