Books
Heather L. Dichter and Molly Wilkinson Johnson, eds. Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2024).
Heather L. Dichter and Sarah Teetzel, eds., The Olympic Winter Games at 100: Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies (London: Routledge, 2024).
Heather L. Dichter, Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021).
*winner, British Society of Sports History Lord Aberdare Literary Prize (2002)
Heather L. Dichter, ed., Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020).
Heather L. Dichter and Andrew Johns, eds. Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft and International Relations since 1945 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
Heather L. Dichter and Bruce Kidd, eds. Olympic Reform Ten Years Later (London: Routledge, 2012).
*originally published as special issue of Sport in Society (v. 14, no. 3)
Book Chapters
Heather L. Dichter, "“United Sport in Divided Berlin: Diplomatic Negotiations for the 1964 All-German Olympic Team Trials,” in Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis, ed. Heather L. Dichter and Molly Wilkinson Johnson (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2024).
Heather L. Dichter, “’Football more important than Berlin’: East German Football vs. NATO,” in Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914, ed. Heather L. Dichter (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020).
Heather L. Dichter, “’A game of political ice hockey’: NATO Restrictions on East German Sport Travel in the Aftermath of the Berlin Wall,” in Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft and International Relations since 1945, ed. Heather Dichter and Andrew Johns. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
Heather L. Dichter, “Game Plan for Democracy: Sport and Youth in Occupied West Germany,” in Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany: Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-55, ed. Camilo Erlichman and Christopher Knowles (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018).
Heather L. Dichter, “Denazification, Democratization, and the Cold War: Diplomatic Manipulation of the German Olympic Committee,” in Defending the American Way of Life, ed. Kevin Witherspoon and Toby Rider (Little Rock: University of Arkansas Press, 2018).
Heather L. Dichter, “Rebuilding Physical Education in the Western Occupation Zones of Germany, 1945-1949,” in Sport, Health and the Body in the History of Education, ed. Mark Freeman (London: Routledge, 2014).
Heather L. Dichter, “Afterword: The State of Presidential Sport,” in Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, ed. Adam Burns and Rivers Gambrell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 300-314.
Heather L. Dichter, “Sport and Politics,” in Routledge Handbook of Sport History, ed. Murray Phillips, Douglas Booth, and Carly Adams (London: Routledge, 2021), 136-143.
Heather L. Dichter, “Olympic Games Bids,” Handbook of International Sport Business, ed. Mark Dodds, Kevin Heisey, and Aila Ahonen (London: Routledge, 2017), 54-64.
Journal Articles
Heather L. Dichter, “The Diplomatic Campaign Against the Short-Lived 1968 Berlin Olympic Bid,” Contemporary European History 33, no. 2 (2024): 514-528.
Heather L. Dichter, “Canadian Government Involvement in Calgary’s 1968 Winter Olympic Bid,” International Journal of the History of Sport 38, no. 13-14 (2021): 1329-1349.
Heather L. Dichter, “The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship Between Sport and Politics,” International Journal of the History of Sport 38, no. 2-3 (2021): 247-263.
Heather L. Dichter and Sarah Teetzel, “The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow,” International Journal of the History of Sport 37, no. 13 (2020): 1215-1235.
Lindsey Blom, Paz Magat, and Heather L. Dichter, “Grassroots Diplomacy through Coach Education: Americans & Jordanians and Tajiks,” Soccer & Society 21, no. 5 (2019): 535-550.
Heather L. Dichter, “‘We have allowed our decisions to be determined by political considerations’: The Cold War German Question in the International Ski Federation,” Sport in History 37, no. 3 (2017): 290-308.
Heather L. Dichter, “Corruption in the 1960s?: Rethinking the Origins of Unethical Olympic Bidding Tactics,” International Journal of the History of Sport 33, no. 6-7 (2016): 666-682.
Heather L. Dichter, “Sporting Relations: Diplomacy, Small States, and Germany’s Postwar Return to International Sport,” Diplomacy & Statecraft 27, no. 2 (2016): 340-359.
Heather L. Dichter, “Diplomatic and International History: Athletes and Ambassadors,” International Journal of the History of Sport 32, no. 15 (2015): 1741-1744.
Heather L. Dichter, “Kicking Around International Sport: West Germany’s Return to the International Community through Football,” International Journal of the History of Sport 30, no. 17 (2013): 2031-2051.
Heather L. Dichter, “Rebuilding Physical Education in the Western Occupation Zones of Germany, 1945-1949,” History of Education, 41, no. 6 (Nov. 2012): 787-806.
Heather L. Dichter, “State of the Field: Sport history and diplomatic history,” H-Diplo (Dec. 2014),
Special Journal Issues
Heather L. Dichter and Sarah Teetzel, eds., International Journal of the History of Sport: “Olympic Winter Games: Bidding, Hosting, and Legacy,” 38, no. 13-14 (2021).
Heather L. Dichter and Sarah Teetzel, eds., International Journal of the History of Sport: “Olympic Winter Games” 37, no. 13 (2020).
J. Simon Rofe and Heather L. Dichter, eds., Diplomacy & Statecraft: “Sport and Diplomacy: Message, Mode, and Metaphor?” 27, no. 2 (2016).