Julia Adams (sociologist)

Julia Adams
NationalityAmerican
EducationReed College
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Occupation(s)Professor of Sociology and International and Area Studies, Yale University
Head of Grace Hopper College, Yale University

Julia Potter Adams (born July 11, 1957)[1] is an American sociologist who works in the area of comparative and historical sociology.[2] Julia Adams is a professor of Sociology. She conducts research in the areas of state building, gender and family, social theory and knowledge, early modern European politics, and Colonialism and empire. Her current research focuses on the historical sociology of agency relations and modernity, gender, race, and the representation of academic knowledge on Wikipedia and on other digital platforms.[3] Adams is Professor of Sociology and International & Area Studies and Head of Grace Hopper College, Yale.[4] She also co-directs YaleCHESS (Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences) and is on the Board of Reed College.[4]

  1. ^ "Adams, Julia, 1957-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Social closure in American elite higher education" Archived 2017-12-15 at the Wayback Machine. Boston University. DL Swartz - 2008.
  3. ^ Adams, J., Brückner, H. and Naslund, C. (2019). Who Counts as a Notable Sociologist on Wikipedia? Gender, Race, and the “Professor Test”. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 5, p.237802311882394.
  4. ^ a b "Sociology: Julia Adams".

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