Media – Privileged Brotherhoods

Professor Adam Howard

Adam Howard, Ed.D, is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Education and Chair of the Education Department at Colby College. For over two decades, Howard has researched elite schools around the world, peeling back the layers of how privilege works through their daily practices, relations, structures, and policies. Employing a collaborative approach in most of his major studies, he teams up with privileged young people to make insider’s knowledge of how privilege works within elite schools more evident. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, USA Today, Time, NPR’s Here and Now, and other leading media outlets covering education and culture. He also appeared as a featured expert in the documentary The Boys in the Red Hats. Through a combination of scholarship, public outreach, and media engagement, Howard has become a leading voice on privilege and elite schooling.

Media Appearances

New York Times feature — **“Epstein Files and Private-School Tuition”** Featured in *The New York Times*.

**“Incredible’ Privilege At Elite Prep Schools Like Those Kavanaugh And His Accuser Attended”** Interviewed on NPR’s *Here and Now*.

**“What Is the Role of an All-Boys School in 2019? How the Elite Institutions Are Trying to Adapt?”** Interviewed in Time.

**“TikTok’s Manosphere Is Growing”** Featured and interviewed in Rolling Stone.

**“The Silence of Nick Sandmann”** Featured and interviewed in Vox.

**“I’ve spent decades studying elite schools. Here’s how their culture enables toxic masculinity”** Featured in Vox.

**“Taught to rule: Why elite men like Brett Kavanaugh lie and cheat without consequences”** Featured and interviewed in Salon.

**“Meet the Sociologist Studying the Brett Kavanaughs of the World”** Featured and interviewed in Harvard Crimson’s Fifteen Minutes.

**“The Boys in Red Hats”** In this documentary Adam Howard discusses the encounter between Covington Catholic students and a Native American elder.

**“Canada Broadcasting Corporation’s National Radio”** Live interviews with hosts of twelve affiliated stations.

**“WPFW’s Monday Morning QB”** Interviewed by Askia Muhammad.

**“A Group Of College Students Started A TikTok Channel To Teach ‘Sex Ed For Guys’ And It’s Working”** Featured and interviewed in Scary Mommy.

**“‘Setting boundaries with your partner. That’s what’s up!’”** Featured and interviewed in Fast Company.

**“College Students Started a Sex Ed Channel to Teach Young Men Boundaries and Consent — It’s the Positive Masculinity We Need”** Featured in Amplify Upworthy.

**“Sex in Space Podcast”** Interviewed by Toshi Frederiksens, May 29, 2025.

**“USA Today”** Featured and interviewed in “The manosphere is a growing problem. These ‘Sex-Ed for Guys’ videos may be the solution” by Rachel Hale, April 28, 2025.

**“Her Campus”** Featured and interviewed in “The manosphere is no match for ‘Sex Ed for Guys’” by Sophie Blake, April 25, 2025.

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