AMSA Awards the 2010 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Ryan Farnkopf

AMSA awarded its 2010 Loren Frankel Scholarship at AMSA’s Friday Conference luncheon to Ryan Farnkopf, a graduate student at European University. The award was presented by the Frankel Scholarship Committee of the AMSA Board, Richard Pitt and Vicki Sommer. Awarded to a student presenting a paper on the critical study of masculinities at AMSA’s annual [...]

AMSA XVIII Kicks Off With Over 120 Scholars, Panel of Presidents

The American Men’s Studies Association’s Eighteenth Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities kicked off March 26th with sessions attended by 124 scholars and a plenary panel of presidents of four historic men’s liberal arts colleges. Robert M. Franklin, President of Morehouse College in Atlanta (from right to left in the picture), Patrick White, President of [...]

AMSA Annual Review, Volume II Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS American Men’s Studies Annual Review, Volume II, is a blind refereed, online collection of manuscripts and other media representative of the scholarship/creativity presented at our conference. This is a significant project for AMSA as it creates a scholarly archive of selected work presented at AMSA conferences and allows for public access to [...]

2010 AMSA Conference Final Program Now Available

Don Levy and the Program Committee have completed the final 2010 AMSA Program.   See you in Atlanta. 2010 AMSA Conference Program (pdf)

AMSA XVIII – Conference Information Now Online

Online registration is available for the Eighteenth Annual AMSA Men and Masculinities Conference, “Growing Our Field: Emerging Perspectives on Masculinities and Men’s Lives.”March 25-28, 2010, in Atlanta, Georgia. Four pre-conference workshops are scheduled for the afternoon on Thursday, March 25. The conference begins Friday morning with approximately 100 papers, presentations, and panel discussions, and runs [...]

AMSA XVIII – Professor Mark Anthony Neal to Address Conference

Scholar and Teacher Mark Anthony Neal will deliver the luncheon address at the 2010 AMSA conference on Saturday, March 27th. His address is entitled “Coming Apart at the Seams: Black Masculinity and the Performance of Obama-Era Respectability.” Professor Neal is the author of four books: What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public [...]

AMSA XVIII – Morehouse College President Welcomes AMSA 2010

Dr. Robert M. Franklin, President of Morehouse College, will welcome AMSA members and conference attendees at the Friday, March 26th luncheon in Atlanta. On behalf of Morehouse, one of the higher education institutions co-sponsoring the conference, he will be offering his perspective on educating black males and what we have learned (and need to learn) [...]

AMSA XVIII – Kilmartin to Present “Guy Fi: The Fictions that Rule Men’s Lives”

Dr. Christopher Kilmartin, Professor of Psychology at The University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, will present a new master lecture entitled “Guy Fi: The Fictions that Rule Men’s Lives” at AMSA’s 18th Men and Masculinities Conference on Friday evening, March 26, 2010 in Atlanta. Drawing on his background as a professional stand-up comedian, Dr. [...]

AMSA XVIII – Accepting Proposals Online Through December 15, 2009

The 18th Annual American Men’s Studies Association Conference in Atlanta March 25-28, 2010, invites papers, panels, undergraduate and graduate roundtables as well as poster presentations addressing the critical examination of masculinities and men’s lives. We invite proposals that draw from academic, clinical, educational services and related professions based upon fully developed work as well as [...]

AMSA Awards 2009 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Yiu-tung Suen

AMSA Award Recipient Yiu-tung Suen, a doctoral student in Sociology at St. Antony’s College of Oxford University received the 2009 Loren Frankel Scholarship at the Annual Banquet of the 17th Meeting of the American Men’s Studies Association. The award is presented to a student in the critical study of masculinities who is presenting a paper [...]

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