2019 Awardee
Zhiqiu Benson Zhou is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Public Culture with a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University: "The Myth of “More 0s than 1s”: Masculine Obsession and Anxiety in Chinese Gay Community."
2018 Awardees
Brandon Alston
, a doctoral student in Sociology at Northwestern University: “Discreet Wisdom: The Construction of Black Women’s Sexual Health Risk as a Rationale to Sexually Surveil Black Men to Detect Down Low Men.”
Noah Barth, an M.A. student in Heritage Studies and Public History at the University of Minnesota: “Heritage of the Harness: Tracking Masculinity, Sexual Expression, and Commodification Through Fetish Adornment.”
Juan Carlos Mezo González, a doctoral student in History at the University of Toronto: “Queer Machos: Masculinity, Race, and Class in the 1980s Mexican Gay Press.”
Alyssa Newman, a doctoral candidate in Sociology with an emphasis in Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara: “Desiring the Standard Light Skin: Black Multiracial Boys, Masculinity, and Exotification.”
2017 Awardee
Steven L. Dashiell, a Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County: “Analysis of Masculinity Constructions and Performances in New Media.”
2016 Awardee
Shakeisha Wilson, a Commonwealth Development Scholar pursuing full-time doctoral studies at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand: “Challenging, reconciling and renegotiating masculinity in the context of ARV treatment for HIV positive men in Jamaica.”
2015 Awardees
Sayed Mahdi Mosawi, a Ph.D. candidate at Hacettepe University of Turkey: “‘Gender Neither Ours Nor From Our Culture, West Countries Brought It To Us’ Challenges of Engaging Afghan Men in Gender Equality: A Case Study in Kabul, Afghanistan.”
Krizia Nardini, PhD Candidate at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona and Utrecht University: “Men’s Mobilizations for Gender Justice: Thinking Through G/Local Strategies and Challenges Starting from the Italian and SpanishCases.”
2014 Awardees
Markus Gerke, doctoral student in Sociology at Stony Brook University: “Appropriation of Feminist Rhetoric in the Panic about Boy’s Education."
Michael J. Goebel, doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at George Mason and Iowa State Universities: “Beached White Male: Imperiled Masculinity in the Great Recession.”
Nicholas Marino, doctoral candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University: “Masculinity: The Writing Classroom and the Interdisciplinary Study of Men and Masculinity.”
2013 Awardee
Jeffrey T. Yamashita of the University of California, Berkeley: “Contesting Asian Settler Colonialism: Gendering the Native Hawai’ian Sovereignty Movement through Sudden Rush’s Era (2006).”
2012 Awardee
Mary Manning, a doctoral Candidate and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University: “Monet’s Vulnerable Masculinity in Frederic Bazille’s ‘The Improvised Field Hospital.'”
2011 Awardee
Justine Johnson, a graduate student in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Minnesota State University at Mankato: “Hegan: The Emergence of a New Male Vegan.”
2010 Awardee
Ryan Farnkopf, a graduate student at European University: “A Performance of Authenticity: Masculinity and ‘Forgiveness’ in 21st Century Presidential Politics.”
2009 Awardee
Yiu-tung Suen, a doctoral student in Sociology at St. Antony’s College of Oxford University: “The Invisible Older Men’s Bodies: a Review and Ways Ahead.”
2008 Awardee
Chien-Chen Kung, a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Department at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York: “Masculinities and leisure: The middle age men’s car culture of American white working class.”
2007 Awardees
Paola Ehrmantraut is a graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis: “Fuckland: Traces of Nationalism, Gender and Violence in Democratic Argentina.”
Keith Frazee is a graduate student at the University of Missouri at Columbia: “Male College Students & How the University Can Help Turn Them into Men.”