Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Steve Tripp

Brooks College Faculty Member
Steve Tripp Professor tripps@gvsu.edu Affiliations Primary College: History Department Brooks College Partnership: Honors College
TEACHING FOCUS RESEARCH FOCUS American popular culture, especially manhood during the early 20^th century. Currently: Writing a book tentatively titled “Ty Cobb’s America” – a study of Manhood and Sport Culture in the early 20^th Century. Future plans: To write a book on Manhood and popular culture during the Great Depression. Recent Awards and Honors Last Lecture Series (November 2008, November 2001) National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant (Summer 1999) for archival research on post-Reconstruction South. Choice Magazine List of Outstanding Academic Books (1997) for Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg. Selected Publications Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg (New York University Press, 1997). “’The Most Popular Unpopular Man in Baseball:’ Baseball Fans and Ty Cobb in the Early 20^th Century” The Journal Of Social History. Forthcoming. Fall 2009. Interest Areas Popular culture in the late 19^th-21^st Century; manhood in America WEBSITE

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