Julia Adams (sociologist)

Julia Adams
Nationality American
Education Reed College
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Occupation Professor of Sociology and International and Area Studies, Yale University
Head of Hopper College, Yale University

Julia Potter Adams is an American sociologist who works in the area of comparative and historical sociology[1] with a special focus on gender. Adams is Professor of Sociology and International and Area Studies at Yale University,[2] where she also serves as Head of Hopper College.[3][4]

Early life and education

Adams attended Reed College. She completed graduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

Adams became an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in 1992;[5][6] she was later promoted to become an associate professor. She moved to Yale University in 2004.[7]

In 2005, Adams published two books on historical sociology: The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe[8] as the sole author, and Remaking Modernity with colleagues Ann Shola Orloff and Elisabeth Clemens. The latter book surveys the field of historical sociology and proposes a third wave for historical interpretation and analysis in the social sciences.

She was president of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) from 2008 to 2009; her presidential address covered historical sociological topics including agency, labor, and principal-agent relations.

Adams received a National Science Foundation grant in 2013 to conduct a study of the relationship between gender bias and the portrayal of academics in Wikipedia.[9][10] She collaborated with Hannah Bruckner of New York University-Abu Dhabi.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "Social closure in American elite higher education". Boston University. DL Swartz - 2008.
  2. ↑ "Juan Cole: Up for job at Yale?". History News Network.
  3. ↑ "Calhoun College to welcome a new master: Julia Adams". Yale News, April 24, 2014
  4. ↑ "Yale offering meningitis vaccines to students after 1 case on campus". New Haven Register.
  5. ↑ University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (1992). LSAmagazine. UM Libraries. pp. 125–. UOM:39015061598101.
  6. ↑ American Council of Learned Societies (1994). Report. p. 53.
  7. ↑ "More news of Yale people". Yale Alumni Magazine. Jul/Aug 2014
  8. ↑ Philip J. Stern (25 March 2011). The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 222–. ISBN 978-0-19-987518-4.
  9. ↑ "Wikipedia's Scarcity of Women 'Wikipedians' Gets a Closer Look". NBC News, Dec 3 2014.
  10. ↑ Paling, Emma, "How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women", The Atlantic, 21 October 2015
  11. ↑ "Wikipedia: a bias against women?". The National UAE, Daniel Bardsley, April 12, 2014
  12. ↑ " Wikipedia's Gender Problem Gets a Closer Look". by Stephanie Pappas, Live Science December 03, 2014
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