Karolyn H. Strake
Senior Fellow in Recreational Systematics
Praxial Institute for Competitive Structures
Contributor record / USD-2026
Research profile
Karolyn H. Strake is Senior Fellow in Recreational Systematics at the Praxial Institute for Competitive Structures. Her work reduces inherited sporting classifications to decisive objects, actions, and winning conditions, with particular emphasis on the jurisdiction of sticks.
She chairs the Standing Committee on Decisive Implements and serves as rapporteur for the Curling Reinstatement Docket. Her office continues to request a satisfactory explanation of why a ball on a wire has been registered as a hammer.
Research interests
Game taxonomy · Object precedence · Competitive classification
“The broom is not incidental.”
Selected publication
A Unified Taxonomy of Games and Sports
Other contributors
- Dexter Bryton — Chief Scientific Architect
- Dr. Elian Vale — Director of Comparative Agency
- Dr. Maren Quill — Principal Hydrogeologist, Native Emulsion Systems