Julia Adams (sociologist)
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 Master of Calhoun 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 government grant in 2013 to conduct a study of the relationship between gender bias and the portrayal of academics in Wikipedia.[9][10][11][12] She collaborated with Hannah Bruckner of New York University-Abu Dhabi.[13][14]
References
- ↑ "Social closure in American elite higher education". Boston University. DL Swartz - 2008.
- ↑ "Juan Cole: Up for job at Yale?". History News Network.
- ↑ "Calhoun College to welcome a new master: Julia Adams". Yale News, April 24, 2014
- ↑ "Yale offering meningitis vaccines to students after 1 case on campus". New Haven Register.
- ↑ University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (1992). LSAmagazine. UM Libraries. pp. 125–. UOM:39015061598101.
- ↑ American Council of Learned Societies (1994). Report. p. 53.
- ↑ "More news of Yale people". Yale Alumni Magazine. Jul/Aug 2014
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Wikipedia's Scarcity of Women 'Wikipedians' Gets a Closer Look". NBC News, Dec 3 2014.
- ↑ "Government spending $200,000 to study ‘gender bias’ on Wikipedia". By Elizabeth Harrington July 30, 2014, Washington Free Beacon
- ↑ "Why is Wikipedia so sexist?". By Danika Fears, New York Post. July 30, 2014
- ↑ Paling, Emma, "How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women", The Atlantic, 21 October 2015
- ↑ "Wikipedia: a bias against women?". The National UAE, Daniel Bardsley, April 12, 2014
- ↑ " Wikipedia's Gender Problem Gets a Closer Look". by Stephanie Pappas, Live Science December 03, 2014