Jerry Gems has been a professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois since 1988. Over his lengthy career, Jerry has been a Renaissance Man in academia, a good teacher, an active and productive scholar, and engaged in serving his professional organizations.
As the presenter of the 2016 Routledge Keynote, Jerry began the ISHPES Congress in Paris with his talk, “Women and the Advent of American Sport Tourism: The Feminine Invasion of Male Space”.
