About MARIAL Faculty, Fellows, and Staff Calendar of Events Research and Publications Fellowships Work-Family Resources Virtual Exhibitions	MARIAL CENTER COLLOQUIUM Sherri Grasmuck (Professor of Sociology, Temple University) Seeing the World in Neighborhood Baseball Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m Sherri Grasmuck is the author of Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball (Rutgers University Press, 2005), an ethnographic exploration of a boys' baseball league in a gentrifying neighborhood of Philadelphia. Protecting Home reveals the accommodations and tensions that characterize multicultural encounters in contemporary American public life. By showing how men and boys nurture each other and how bonds of friendship grow across class and racial divides, Dr. Grasmuck's book challenges popular stereotypes, forcing us to reconsider our assumptions about gender, class, and race. Dr. Grasmuck is an award-winning teacher and prolific writer whose research interests include gender and kinship, masculinity, ethnicity, migration, community change, and children's sports. She was educated at the University of Texas, earning her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate in sociology there. She completed her postdoctoral training at Duke University’s Center for International Studies. At Temple, she has served as chair of the sociology department, director of women’s studies and director of Latin American studies. She also is the coauthor of Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration. DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor of the main building of Emory's Briarcliff Campus, 1256 Briarcliff Road. There is ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may take the Emory shuttle (Route A). The Emory shuttle (Route A) provides transportation from the main campus to the MARIAL Center every 20 minutes (a 5-10 minute ride). For the shortest travel time, board the shuttle in front of the B. Jones Center or at the corner of Dowman and Fishburne (across from Glenn Memorial) at approximately 4, 24, and 44 minutes after each hour. A complete schedule and the route map are available on the web at http://www.epcs.emory.edu/AltTransp/route-a.htm Please tell the receptionist at the front window that you are here for the MARIAL Center lecture.   Back to the Calendar of Events