Bruce Arnold (archer)
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| Full name | Bruce Makoto Arnold | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States of America, United States Virgin Islands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Recurve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Tulsa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Makoto Arnold, PhD is a retired historian and current archer who competes for the United States Virgin Islands. At the 2024 Youth & Masters Pan Am Championships in San Salvador, he and fellow Virgin Islander, Tatyana Muntyan, set a world record in mixed-team qualifications with a score of 1228[1][2] and were the first to set a world record in archery from that country.
Archery
In 1998, Arnold was an NAA All-American archer at the University of Tulsa, the first All American in archery from that university.[3]
Academics
Arnold is a retired historian who was an assistant professor of history at Ohio State University after earning his PhD at Louisiana State University in 2014.[4]
Personal life
Arnold is married to Ohio State educator Noelle W. Arnold.[5]
Publications
- Bruce Makoto Arnold, Roland W. Mitchell, and Noelle W. Arnold, "Massified Illusions of Difference:Photography and the Mystique of the American Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)", in Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 41 (2015): 69–94.
References
- ^ "USVI archers set world record at Pan Am meet". The Virgin Islands Daily News. May 10, 2024. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
- ^ 2024 Youth & Masters Pan Am Championships Results, World Archery Federation, Pg. 158, Accessed: August 11, 2025
- ^ https://tulsaworld.com/archive/article_723f7044-bd99-54f3-ace1-f15f8ad532e4.html(subscription required)
- ^ https://history.osu.edu/people/arnold.1041 |access-date=August 10, 2025
- ^ Acknowledgements, Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942