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Mr. Grace has been with the University of Cincinnati since 1979. Along with responsibilities for collection development, and his research and reference duties with rare books and special collections, he also is an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. Additionally, he teaches seminars in the University Honors Program. He lectures frequently on rare books, the history and culture of books and reading, and on sports, presenting conference papers in America and in Europe. His current research focuses on Islamic bindings and illuminated manuscripts; the culture of reading; social history of the book; and the graphic novel, particularly in terms of cross-cultural assimilation and urban expression. Mr. Grace has published widely on sports in Cincinnati and on the history of the University of Cincinnati, and is currently writing a biography of boxer Ezzard Charles. His research is on sport in the Progressive Era; bloodsports, particularly of the underclass; sport and multiculturalism; and urban history and sport.
A full c.v. is available on request.
Envisioning the City
Urban Graffiti
Library Entrances
Culture of Books and Reading
Envisioning the City
The Heritage of the Book
The Graphic Novel
Humor, Ethnicity, and the Modern World
Sport and Multiculturalism 
Social History of Baseball
Basketball and American Society
The Politics and Culture of the Olympics
“Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine and the Community Extension of Ethnic German Memory.” Paper presented at the Conference on Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009.
“Let Them Smell Something.” In ProfPost: 21st Century Teaching and Learning. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, http://profpost.uc.edu/2009/04/let-them-smell-something/, April 6, 2009.
“ ‘Blasphemous Youths Who Play Base-Ball’: A Cincinnati Sunday Baseball Tale From 1885.” Paper presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, Middle Tennessee State University, 2009.
“Lost Souls and Mean Streets: Transglobal Urban Life in the Graphic Novel.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Las Vegas, 2009.
“Caught in the Shadow of Joe Louis: Ezzard Charles, the Press, and African Americans.” Paper presented at the Ohio Valley History Conference, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, 2008.
"Editing for Digitization: The Ambrose Bierce Letters at the University of Cincinnati." Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Making Books, Shaping Readers, Cork, Ireland, 2008.
"An Analysis of Cross-Cultural Assimilation in the Contemporary Graphic Novel." Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans, 2008.
"Emanuel Steward." Essay in the African American National Biography, ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.
"Blues;" "Boxing;" "Cigarettes and Tobacco;" and "Jack Dempsey." Essays in Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash, ed. by James Ciment. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
The University of Cincinnati: Architectural Transformation, Tradition, and Innovation (with Robert Flischel and Jayne Merkel). Cincinnati, OH: RAF Press, 2007.
“The William J. Lawrence Notebooks on the History of the Dublin Stage,” in Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries, ed. by Philip Cronenwett, et.al. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2007.
“Hands On and Minds Open: Using Rare Books to Understand the Culture of Reading.” Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on the Book. Madrid, Spain, 2007.
“Readers at Ringside: How Boxing Literature Reflects the Urban Cultural Environments of the 19th and 20th Centuries.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Making Books, Shaping Readers. Cork, Ireland, 2007.
Boxing in Cincinnati (with Joshua Grace). Chicago, IL: Arcadia, 2006.
“Teaching the Anthropology of Books and Reading.” Workshop presented at the 4th International Conference on the Book. Boston, MA, 2006.
“American Vice and Teaching Baseball History,“ in Baseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime, ed. by Edward J. Rielly. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2006.
“A Short History of Baseball and Tobacco,” in Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, 2004-2005, ed. by Peter Carino. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2006.
