Loren Frankle Student Research Award
This award honors a graduate student, post-doc, or new psychologist who has recently completed and defended a dissertation pertaining to boys, adolescent males, men or masculinities.
Eligibility
Nominees should be able to demonstrate their successful defense or submission of a finished dissertation after July 1 of the previous year. Nominees need not be members of SPSMM. Nomination materials should be accompanied by two letters of recommendation; one from a member of the dissertation committee, and one from a professor within the nominee's academic department.
How to Apply
A cover letter detailing the award and the person being nominated
Two letters of support from individuals other than the nominator (one from a member of the dissertation committee, one from a professor in the nominee’s department)
The nominee's vita
A phone number where the nominated person can be reached (can be included in the cover letter)
Past Recipients
Dr. Caitlin Moore
Dr. William B. Elder
Dr. Ali Shames-Dawson
Dr. Matthew Kane
2025 Winner: Samuel Swischer
Samuel Swisher is a Resident in Counseling Psychology at Virginia Tech's Cook Counseling Center, his dissertation titled A Thematic Analysis of Men’s Friendship examines how men understand and describe their friendships with other men. The work is situated within positive and liberation psychology, and seeks to allow men to define for themselves quality within their relationships while also understanding men as being shaped by their socialization as gendered beings.
