American Men's Studies Association

 

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, 22 East St., Northampton, MA 01060

 

The deadline for 2009 Loren Frankel Scholarship applications for students planning to present a paper at the 2009 AMSA conference is Jan 3, 2009. Announcement of the award will be made February 15, 2009.

 

 

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, March 30. 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".

 

 

For more information or to give to support the Loren Frankel Scholarship Fund Endowment contact:
Sam Femiano, Treasurer
AMSA Membership Office
22 East Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Email Sam Femiano

 

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