Meet the Co-Directors
TONY ROTUNDO
Co-Director
History and Gender Studies teacher at Phillips Academy. He has written about the history of mother-son relationships in America, the military’s attitudes toward homosexuality, male-male friendship in the nineteenth century, boy culture, American fatherhood, and (with Kathleen Dalton) teaching gender history to secondary students. He is currently studying white male identity politics within the conservative revolution of the late twentieth century. He is the author of American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (Basic Books, 1993).
He formerly served at the Chair of the P.A. History Department, Chair of the Ad Hoc Steering Committee, and Associate Dean of Community Affairs and Multicultural Development.
If students want to do research papers on global gender issues or manhood Mr. Rotundo is a good resource. Email him at trotundo@andover.edu.
Click HERE for his article about The Sopranos and Italian-American manhood.
KATHLEEN DALTON
Co-Director
History teacher at Phillips Academy. She helped to found the Women’s Forum in the 1980s and with other faculty members lobbied to make Phillips Academy a more equitable school for women and girls in the 1980s. She wrote Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (Phillips Academy, 1986) and Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). She is currently editing a diary written by Caroline Drayton Phillips and writing a book about four important friends (Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and William and Caroline Phillips).
Ms. Dalton and Mr. Rotundo are a married couple who ran a Phillips Academy boys’ dorm for fifteen years and whose two children attended Phillips Academy.
If students are interested in doing research papers in U.S. women’s history or any topic in U.S. history from 1865-1945 or gender equity please contact kdalton@andover.edu
If you would like copies of the articles mentioned above please email kdalton@andover.edu.
Kathleen O'Donnell
Brace Center Assistant