Chris Haywood, PhD. (President) 

Dr Chris Haywood is a Reader in Critical Masculinity studies at the School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University. He is the author of Sex Clubs: Recreational Sex and Cultures of Desire and Men (Palgrave) and Masculinity and Contemporary Dating (Palgrave). He is also co-author of The Conundrum of Masculinity (Routledge), Marginalized Masculinities (Routledge), Masculinities and Education (Routledge), Gender, Culture and Society (Palgrave) and Sociology of Masculinities (Palgrave).  He is interested in exploring how different conceptual deployments of masculinity shape what we know and are able to know about gender and sexuality. 

Jonathan A. Allan, Ph.D. (Vice President)

Canada Research Chair and Professor at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba. Dr. Allan teaches in the Department of English, Drama, and Creative Writing and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. He is an editor for Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities published by Berghahn. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus and Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance. His forthcoming books include: Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities and Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin. He is also a co-investigator on a SSHRC-funded project called “Changing rural masculinities and mental wellness: a Prairie case study.”

Frank G. Karioris, M.A., Ph.D. (Recorder)

Visiting Lecturer of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the editor (with Drs Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne) of the recent collection Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (Zed Books 2016) and has published on the topic of masculinities in various peer-reviewed journals including The Journal of Men’s Studies, The Journal of Gender Studies, and Culture Unbound. His current work has explored issues related to heterosexual bareback sex; men’s friendships, education, and Foucault; and the role of teaching in the neoliberal university, and he is currently working on a co-authored monograph with Dr. Jonathan A. Allan titled The Full Package: Aesthetics, Masculinity, and the Market. His monograph Educating for Marriage will be released in early 2019 from Lexington Books.

Andrea Waling, Ph.D. (Senior Advisor)