The Loren Frankel Memorial Scholarship

The Board of Directors of the American Men’s Studies Association established the Loren Frankel Student Scholarship Fund in 2005. The fund is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Loren Frankel, a young professor of psychology at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia who died tragically in an automobile accident in 2004. Dr. Frankel was known as an inspiring teacher, an accomplished scholar, and a respected colleague. He presented several papers on adolescent sexuality and male heterosexual identity at AMSA’s annual conferences.
The Scholarship Fund supports students engaged in the critical study of men and masculinities like Dr. Frankel. It provides up to $500 each year to a qualified student or students attending and presenting at the annual AMSA Men’s Studies Conference.

Graduate and undergraduate students who are attending and presenting at the annual AMSA conference are eligible for the award. Applications should include biographical information, the title of the presentation and a short abstract as well as a summary of other research, writing or presentations they have made in the field of men’s studies. Applications can be emailed to The Loren Frankel Student Scholarship Fund Committee or mailed to the Committee at the AMSA Membership Office, 1507 Pebble Drive, Greensboro NC 27410.

The extended deadline for 2010 Loren Frankel Scholarship applications for students planning to present a paper at the 2010 AMSA conference is March 1, 2010. Announcement of the award will be made March 10, 2010.

*****If you have already submitted an application we ask that you re-submit in order to assure that it has been received. We want to make certain that the applications were not lost as we transitioned from our late treasurer Sam Femiano’s electronic and paper files to the new scholarship committee co-chairs, Dr. Richard Pitt and Dr. Vicki Summers.*****

Annual Awards

The 2010 Loren Frankel Scholarship was awarded by AMSA at the 2010 Annual Conference Friday luncheon to Ryan Farnkopf, a graduate student at European University. Farnkopf’s paper was entitled “A Performance of Authenticity: Masculinity and ‘Forgiveness’ in 21st Century Presidential Politics.”

The 2009 Loren Frankel Scholarship was awarded by AMSA at the 2009 Annual Conference Banquet in Montréal, Canada to Yiu-tung Suen, a doctoral student in Sociology at St. Antony’s College of Oxford University. The title of his paper was: “The Invisible Older Men’s Bodies: a Review and Ways Ahead.”

The 2008 Loren Frankel Scholarship was awarded by AMSA at the 2008 Annual Conference Banquet in Winston-Salem, NC, to Chien-Chen Kung, a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Department at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He is in the Social and Philosophical Foundations Program with a concentration in the Sociology of Education. His paper was titled: “Masculinities and leisure: The middle age men’s car culture of American white working class.” Kung grew up in a fishing family in a rural town in Taiwan and has been a certificated art teacher for two years (1996; 1999) in an elementary school of a working-class area of Taipei County, Taiwan.

The 2007 Loren Frankel Scholarships were awarded by AMSA to two students: Paola Ehrmantraut and Keith Frazee at the 2007 Annual Conference Banquet in Kansas City, Missouri. Paola Ehrmantraut is a graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. The title of her conference presentation was: “Fuckland: Traces of Nationalism, Gender and Violence in Democratic Argentina.” Keith Frazee is a graduate student at the University of Missouri at Columbia. The title of his conference presentation was: “Male College Students & How the University Can Help Turn Them into Men”.

You can give to support Loren Frankel Scholarships on-line.

The American Men’s Studies Association is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All gifts are fully tax deductible.

For more information contact:
Mark Justad, Treasurer
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