AMSA Board Announces Montreal
as the Location for its 2009
17th Annual Conference
on Men and Masculinities

The theme of the 17th Annual Conference
scheduled for April 3-5, 2009 is
"Beyond Borders: Masculinities and Margins."
Events will be held at McGill University
and Concordia University.
A group of Canadian scholars has spearheaded
AMSA's first conference in Canada.

Watch for more details.

AMSA Awards Its 2008 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Chien-Chen Kung

The American Men's Studies Association presented the 2008 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Chien-Chen Kung at the annual banquet of its 2008 Annual Conference at Wake Forest University on April 4th. Kung is 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.

The Frankel Scholarship is awarded to the student submitting the most promising paper for presentation at the annual conference. Chien-Chen Kung's 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.

AMSA is committed to supporting new scholars and students, and limited scholarship money is available for full-time students through The Loren Frankel Scholarship Fund.

 

4AMSA Holds its 16th Annual Conference
Masculinities and Institutions:
Mapping the Connections
At Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
April 4th-6th, 2008

Ninety-seven scholars and practitioners participated in the 2008 AMSA Conference on Men and Masculinities, Masculinities and Institutions: Mapping the Connections, April 4th through 6th at Wake Forest University.  The conference featured two keynote addresses, pre-conference men’s studies workshops, and presentations by over 50 scholars, practitioners and activists. AMSA’s conference continues to be the largest annual men's studies conference in the United States, drawing an international group of participants representing a broad range of academic disciplines and interests.  An open and affirming event featuring scholarship and respectful dialogue on the critical study of men and masculinities, anyone with an interest in this emerging field of study is welcome to participate.

More on this and past conferences

AMSA Conference 2008 in Photos -- as they are submitted

WikipediaThe American Men's Studies Association On Wikipedia

 

Thanks to the work of AMSA Board Member Richard Pitt, the American Men's Studies Association is now referenced by an article on the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

 

 

AMSA Announces The Men's Studies Syllabus Project

As part of its goal to promote the academic study and teaching of men and masculinities, AMSA is making available syllabi used in Men's 3Studies Courses for download. Access the current available syllabi.

What's New in the Latest Issue of
The Journal of Men's Studies?

Check out the Contents of Volume 16, Issue 1 (Winter 2008) .

An Official Journal of the American Men's Studies Association