2022 Awardees

Seohye Kwon is a PhD candidate in English at Louisiana State University: "BTS's Hybridized Masculinity: Challenging The Feminization Of Asian (American) Male Body."

Trevor McArthur is an emerging African scholar based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa: "Endangered Species: Coloured Men And Masculinities In Post-Apartheid South Africa."

Joshua Pridemore is an MFA candidate in Design for Responsible Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "Guardians For Growth: Design Strategies For Facilitating Familial Conversations About Boyhood."

2021 Awardees

Rod Martinez is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park: "Men, Masculinity, and Radical Love in the American Carceral State."

Kelly M. O'Donnell is a 3rd year PhD student in Communication Studies and Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh: "Incels, Darkcels, and Intervention."

Vic Overdorf is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington: "(Un)masculinities Incarcerated: Gay Male Prisoners at Alcatraz Federal Penientiary"

Duru Basak Ugurlu is a graduate student in Cultural Studies and Media at Hacettepe University: "Even I Do Not Go There, How Do You Dare?: Hindrances of Being a Woman Researcher and Researching Masculinities during Times of Pandemic-hit"

2020 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."

2019 Awardees

Chole Chapin "Fashion Propaganda: The Suit as a Problematic Universal Symbol of Modern Masculinity"

Adria Kurchina-Tyson "Beyond Indigenous Masculine Authenticity: A Kinky Account Against Chivalry in Nishinaabek Tradionalisms"

Taveeshi Singh "Logics of Militarized Masculinity: Caste, Coloniality and Labor in the Indian Army"

Taisto Witt ""If I Cannot Have It, I Will Do Everything I Can Do To DESTROY IT": Threatened Masculinities, Involuntary Celibacy, and 'Saint Elliot'"

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.”