The 2011-12 Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop presents:

"Training Fighters, Making Men"
The Work of Boxing Trainers in Postindustrial New York
Speaker: Lucia Trimbur, Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Lucia Trimbur began teaching at John Jay College/ CUNY in 2008. Prior
to joining the sociology department, she was an Andrew W. Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow on Race, Crime, and Justice at the Vera Institute
of Justice. She completed her doctoral degree in African American
studies and sociology at Yale University. Her research and teaching
interests include race and racisms, gender, urban sociology and
inequality, social theory, the sociology of crime and punishment, and
ethnographic field methods. She has published in Ethnography and
Qualitative Sociology and her book, Come Out Swinging, is under
contract with Princeton University Press.