"Gentleman,
start your thesis!" one journalist wrote about the unusual research
of UCSC anthropology graduate student James Todd. Soon after Todd began
studying NASCAR racing for his doctoral dissertation, he began drawing
considerable attention in everything from Sports Illustrated to
the Chronicle of Higher Education to a morning radio show. Todd
bought a used RV to follow the popular auto-racing circuit as fieldwork
for his doctoral dissertation, "Southern Culture and Stock Car Racing."
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