Adam Howard

Books

Privileged Brotherhoods

Becoming Men at Elite All-Boys Schools

Adam Howard · Polity

MasculinitiesAll-Boys SchoolsIdentity

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Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts

Research in Education

Adam Howard, Aimee Polimeno, & Brianne Wheeler · Routledge

IdentityInequalitySchools

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Educating Elites

Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

Edited by Adam Howard & Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández · Rowman & Littlefield

ElitesClassAdvantage

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Learning Privilege

Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling

Adam Howard · Routledge

EducationPrivilegeAffluent Schools

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Selected Publications and Presentations

• Brotherhoods of power: whiteness, masculinity, and elite identity in all-boys schools (with Lawrence Martin & Declan Greene). International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education — Mar 2026.
• Impossible love: Bonds of domination within elite all-boys schools (with Lawrence Martin). Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia — Dec 2024.
• Affective mappings of queer researcher bodies through the study of elite boys’ schooling (with Claire Charles). AARE Conference, Sydney, Australia — Dec 2024.
• From safe to critical spaces: A framework for hope in elite boys’ schools (with Lawrence Martin). AARE Conference, Sydney, Australia — Dec 2024.
• Troubling exclusionary normativities: Thinking queerly about curriculum in elite boys’ schooling (with Claire Charles). AERA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — Apr 2024.
• Masculinities, social justice, and education. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania — Nov 2023.
• Gender justice within elite all-boys schools? Possibilities of a whole-school approach (with Amanda Keddie). Teachers College Record, 125(7–8), 308–333 — 2023.
• Engaging men in the conversation. SafeBae Summer Activist Institute, Portland, Maine — Jun 2023.
• Privileged brotherhoods: Becoming men at elite all-boys schools in the United States (with Kevin O’Boy & Clay Bolster). European Social Science History Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden — Apr 2023.
• Negotiating privilege in educational contexts. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana — Sep 2021.
• Secret brotherhoods: Accessing the secret world of elite all-boys schools. AARE Conference, Melbourne, Australia — Dec 2021.
• Privileged brotherhoods: Feelings of belonging and entitlement within elite all-boys schools (with William Oldham). AERA Annual Meeting — Apr 2021.
• Dominant narratives of masculinities within educational contexts. Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway — Nov 2019.
• Privilege, toxic masculinity, and private schools. Resource Generation, New York, New York — Nov 2018.
• I’ve spent decades studying elite schools. Here’s how their culture enables toxic masculinity. Vox — Sep 2018.