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Regular Faculty

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Tim Curry

Associate Professor

Office: 205 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.7560
Email: curry.6@sociology.osu.edu

Web: View my web page

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: University of Washington, 1971


Research Interests:

Gender, sociology of sport, deviance, and mass communications. Current research focuses on sport and community; and health and advertising.


Recent Publications:

  • 2004 Curry, Timothy Jon, Paula A. Arriagada , Benjamin Cornwell, Jeff Jarosch. “Richer and Whiter: How Publishers of Popular Magazines Construct Their Readership for Advertisers.” Sociological Focus 37:127-141.
  • 2003 Cornwell, Benjamin (student), Timothy J. Curry, and Kent P. Schwirian. “Revising Norton Long’s Ecology of Games: A Network Approach”. City and Community 2(June):121-42.
  • 2002 Curry, Timothy J., Paula A. Arriagada (student), and Benjamin Cornwell (student). “Images of Sport in Popular Nonsport Magazines: Power and Performance versus Pleasure and Participation.” Sociological Perspectives 45(4):397-413.
  • 2001 Jiobu, Robert M. and Timothy Jon Curry. "Lack of Confidence in Government and the Ownership of Firearms." Social Science Quarterly 82(1):77-88.
  • 2001 Schwirian, Kent P., Timothy Jon Curry, and Rachael Woldoff (student). "Community Conflict Over Arena and Stadium Funding: Competitive Framing, Social Action, and the Socio-spatial Perspective." Sociological Focus: 34 (1)1-20.
  • 1999 Curry, Timothy J. and Matthew A. Salerno (student). "Comment on the use of Anabolic Steroids in Women's Olympic Swimming: A Chronicle of the 100-Meter.” International Review of the Sociology of Sport 34 (2): 173-180.