AMSA Welcomes Daphne Watkins as its New President at its Annual Meeting

After completing his six years as President of the Board of Directors of the American Men’s Studies Association, Robert Heasley, Professor of Sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania turned over the organization’s gavel to Daphne Watkins, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and a Faculty Associate at the Program for Research on Black [...]

AMSA Awards Its 2013 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Jeffrey Yamashita

At its annual membership meeting at the 2013 American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference, AMSA presented Jeffrey T. Yamashita with its 2013 Loren Frankel Student Scholarship. Yamashita is a graduate student in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The award honors a graduate student doing research on men’s studies who presents his research [...]

AMSA’s Twenty-Second Annual Conference to be in Tacoma, Washington, March 27-30, 2014

The Board of Directors of the American Men’s Studies Association has announced that AMSA’s Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities will take place at  the University of Washington – Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, on March 27-30, 2014. This will be AMSA’s first conference in the far western U.S. The Conference theme will be “Considering Culture: [...]

AMSA Board Member’s Keynote Address Published in the Law Journal for Social Justice

AMSA Board Member, Bob Minor, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, gave the keynote address “Arguing About Families – Gay, Straight or Neither” at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University on March 9, 2012 for its “Legally Gay” symposium. It has just been published in print [...]

Harry Brod on the Intersection of Racism and Sexism Across Ethnic Groups: Intersections Radio

AMSA member and former board member Harry Brod on  April 16, 2012, discussed “The Intersection of Racism and Sexism Across Ethnic Groups” on Intersections Radio. The weekly program is hosted by the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. In [...]

AMSA Board Member Named to KU Men of Merit by Women’s Resource Center

Robert N (“Bob”) Minor, AMSA Board Member and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas was named one of 16 Men of Merit by the University of Kansas. The award recognizes men at the University of Kansas who positively define masculinity through challenging norms, taking action and leading by example while making [...]

Divine Callings: New Book by AMSA Board Member Richard Pitt

AMSA Board Member and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, Richard N. Pitt in a new book, Divine Callings: Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentacostalism, draws on over 100 in-depth interviews with Black Pentecostal ministers in the Church of God in Christ—both those ordained and licensed and those aspiring—to examine how these [...]

Making Justice Our Business, New Book from AMSA’s Stephen Boyd

Making Justice Our Business: The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work of Faith, the story of Darryl Hunt and of those drawn to him who refused to give up on him, each other, and justice was just authored by Stephen Boyd, AMSA past board president and John Allen Easley Professor of Religion at [...]

“Depression Over the Adult Life Course for African American Men” Article by AMSA Board Member

AMSA Vice President Daphne C. Watkins, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Faculty Associate in the Program of Research on Black Americans at the University of Michigan, is the author of “Depression Over the Adult Life Course for African American Men: Toward a Framework for Research and Practice” in the American Journal [...]

AMSA President In NYT Story: “As Wedding Roles Evolve, Here Come the Flower Men”

“As Wedding Roles Evolve, Here Come the Flower Men” in the June 24, 2011 New York Times quotes Robert Heasley, President of the American Men’s Studies Association: Robert Heasley, a sociology professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the president of the American Men’s Studies’ Association, said weddings were one of the last institutions to [...]

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