Kevin A. Grace, Head and University Archivist
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University Honors Program
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Mr. Grace is head of the Archives & Rare Books Library, the University Archivist, and a Senior Librarian. He has been with the University of Cincinnati since 1979, and also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the University Honors Program. Mr. Grace is responsible for collection development for the rare books and archival collections, and serves as the primary reference contact and the liaison for instruction, services, and university history.
His current research focuses on global access to primary research collections; urban graphic descriptions and cross-cultural assimilation; Islamic bindings and illuminated manuscripts; the culture of reading; and the social history of the book. In sports, he currently is researching issues in global sports, including the staging of international events; 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.
Selected Courses
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Irish in America
Culture of Books and Reading
Envisioning the City
Humor, Ethnicity, and the Modern World
Sport and Multiculturalism
Issues in Global Sport
Exploring Global Studies
Most Recent Papers and Publications
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“Cincinnati’s Urban Evolution: Digitizing the Photographic Archive of the City’s Subway and Streets,” with Angela Vanderbilt and Linda Newman. In Ohio Libraries Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pgs. 9-13. 2013.
"Of Leisure, Masculinity, and Community: Sporting Prints From the 18th-19th Centuries." Annual Meeting, American Historical Print Collectors Society, Cincinnati, OH, 2013.
“Gathering from the Storm: Primary Sources on the American Civil War in the Archives & Rare Books Library.” Annual Meeting, Midwest Archives Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2013.
“Pot of Gold Closer Than You Think.” In UC: University of Cincinnati Magazine. April, 2013, pp. 22-23.
"University Special Collections from a Global Vantage Point: Access, Documentation, and Reference.” Presented at the Sixth World Universities Forum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
Irish Cincinnati. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
"Irish Identity, Sustained Memory, and Cultural Politics in Cincinnati Urban History." Presented at the International Conference on Urban History, European Association for Urban History, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012. Also published in the Proceedings.
“Building a Research Network in Irish Theatre History Notebooks: William J. Lawrence and the University of Cincinnati Project.” Presented at the International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Limerick, Ireland, 2012.
“Creating and Administering the Theodore M. Berry Papers Full Processing Project.” Presented at the Annual Meeting, Society of Ohio Archivists, Columbus, Ohio, 2012.
Legendary Locals of Cincinnati. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011.
Adaptation and Notes on the Song Text for “Lament of the Lost Books” – Amhran na Leabhar by Tomas Roa O’Suilleabhain. Cincinnati, OH: Flying Pig Press, 2011.
“Born Here, Died Here: Preservation Awareness Makes Possible the Digitization of Vital Records by the University of Cincinnati Library.” In American Libraries: The Magazine of the American Libraries Association, April 26, 2011. http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/04262011/born-here-died-here.
“What Ring Lardner Learned Me to Read: The Imaginary Library of Jack Keefe.” Presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, Middle Tennessee State University, 2011.
Review of Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007) in Journal of Sport History, Vol. 37, No. 3, Fall 2010, pgs. 483-484.
“Townships, Sport, and Competing Philanthropies in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Charleston, SC, 2011.
“Drinking Songs”; “Gin’; “Hair of the Dog”; “Last Call”; “Ritual Drinking”; and “Skid Row”. Essays in Cultural Encyclopedia of Alcohol, ed. by Rachel Black. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2010.
“Building Rare Book Collections for the 21st Century University Curriculum.” Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on the Book, Universitat Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2010.
“The Lost Cincinnati German Village of Bethlehem.” Paper presented at the Society for German American Studies Annual Symposium, New Harmony, Indiana, 2010.
“Cubans, Class Perceptions, and Cincinnati Baseball.” Paper presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, Middle Tennessee State University, 2010.
“Boxing and Religion: Faith and Heritage in the Sweet Science.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Sport and Society, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2010.
“Presidents and Playing Fields.”
In UC: University of Cincinnati Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 2. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati, March 2010.
“’Blasphemous Youths’ and Sunday Baseball: A Cincinnati Tale From 1885.” In Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays 2008-2009, ed. by Warren Twomey and Ronald Kates. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2010.
“The Sensual Text.” In If You Think So, ed. by Isaac Hand. Cincinnati, OH: CS13, 2009.
“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.