2006 Andrea Carson Coley Lecture: Doctor Pat Griffin

Doctor Pat Griffin will deliver the 12th annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture on April 14, 2006, at 12:15 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith auditorium, located in the Georgia Museum of Art.

Pat Griffin is a professor in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She leads classes and workshops on sexism, racism, ableism, heterosexism/homophobia, and other forms of social injustice in education. Her research and writing interests focus on heterosexism and homophobia in education, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender teachers and students, and heterosexism and homophobia in athletics, with a particular interest in women's sports. Dr. Griffin has written a book entitled, Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports, published by Human Kinetics, 1998. She is also co-editor of Teaching For Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers, Routledge, 1997.

For the past 24 years Dr. Griffin has led seminars on heterosexism/homophobia in sport at numerous colleges and universities as well as at coaches and athletic administrators’ association meetings around the United States and Canada. She is an NCAA recognized speaker and has served as an expert consultant on homophobia and heterosexism in sport for the Women’s Sports Foundation's It Takes a Team! Making Sports Safe for Lesbian and Gay Athletes and Coaches project, Out For a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women’s Sports (an educational video), the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and for numerous articles in the press, on television and in periodical publications. Dr. Griffin has appeared on ESPN, HBO Real Sports, and ABC Sports Outside the Lines.

Dr. Griffin played basketball and field hockey at the University of Maryland and coached high school basketball and field hockey in Silver Spring, Maryland. She also coached swimming at the University of Massachusetts. She was a member of the U.S. Field Hockey squad in 1971. She won a bronze medal in the triathlon at Gay Games IV in 1994 and a gold medal in the hammer throw at Gay Games V in 1998. She has had short stories and first person accounts selected for publication in Sportdykes: Stories from on and Off the Field, Tomboys: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do, A Whole Other Ball Game: Women’s Literature on Women’s Sport and Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sport.

Women's Studies is honored to have Dr. Griffin as our 2006 Andrea Carson Coley Lecturer. This year's lecture will be April 14, at 12:15 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith auditorium, located in the Georgia Museum of Art on the University of Georgia campus. For more information contact Molly Moreland.