About our authors
Timothy J. Curry is Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology at The Ohio State University. He taught introductory sociology for more than 40 years at Ohio State, from large classes of 300 students to honors classes of 25 students. Dr. Curry, who earned his doctorate from the University of Washington, has published more than 25 professional articles on the subjects of social psychology, sport and society, racial and gender depictions in mass media, and men’s health issues as well as 4 books: Sports: A Social Perspective; Introducing Visual Sociology; High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment; and Sociology for the 21st Century. Dr. Curry is a past president of the International Visual Sociology Association and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
Robert M. Jiobu has more than 30 years of teaching experience at several universities, including California State University at Los Angeles, University of Southern California and University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. He has taught introductory sociology to classes of 600 students and to honors classes of 25 students. In addition to teaching introductory sociology, he has taught racial and ethnic relations and statistical analysis at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Jiobu, who earned a doctorate from the University of Southern California, has published more than 25 professional articles, mostly on racial and ethnic relations, as well as 3 monographs: Sports: A Social Perspective; Ethnicity and Assimilation; and Ethnicity and Inequality. He retired several years ago and is currently enjoying the outdoors and golf while writing Sociology: Evidence and Insights.
Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak earned a doctorate from The Ohio State University and is Associate Professor of Sociology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She teaches introductory sociology both online and in traditional classrooms. She also teaches Race and Ethnic Relations, Gender and Society, Multiracial Feminisms, Social Stratification, Social Inequalities, and Sport and Society. Dr. Pelak has published research in a wide range of academic journals, including Teaching Sociology; Sociological Forum; Gender and Society; Sociology of Education; Race, Gender and Class; and Soccer and Society. She is currently writing on the sociology of settler colonialism and is thrilled to join Professors Curry and Jiobu in writing Sociology: Evidence and Insights.
