Professor Curry's Research Links

 


Current research interests include issues in men's health and advertising of prescription drugs. This is part of Dr. Curry's involvement in the genetic theme research group in the Primary Care Research Institute.   Another project underway is the relationship between masculinity and the environment. Specifically, the life history of John Muir and the history of the American Conservation Movement.

 Please click on the following links for more information. hetch hetchy valley  

        "Hetch Hetchy: Requiem for a Valley" by Brooks Anderson



Additional research interests are controversies in sports, particularly stadium construction issues in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Dr. Curry's most recent monograph is High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment, 2004, Ohio State University Press.  This work was recently highlighted in The Ohio State University Research News.

In a recent review, Mark LaGory, of the University of Alabama, Birmingham wrote:

This is a facinating book on a hot topic and will be of interest not only to scholars of urban planning and development and the history of sports but also to the everyday sports fan curious about the relationship of municipal politics to big-time sports.  Curry, Schwirian, and Woldoff deftly explain the success of the stadium development projects in Columbus while revealing the problems inherent in linking sports with urban revitalization.        
 

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nationwide arena    

Professor Curry is also interested in many different aspect of Sociology.  The following are links to some Sociology websites.

North Central Sociological Association
http://www.ncsanet.org

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
http://www.nasss.org

American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
http:www.soci.niu.edu/~sssi/

International Visual Sociology Association
http://www.sjmc.umn.edu/faculty/schwartz/ivsa/