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Julia Potter Adams is an American sociologist who works in the area of comparative and historical sociology with a special focus on gender. Adams is Professor of Sociology and International and Area Studies at Yale University, where she also serves as Head of Calhoun College.
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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; she was later promoted to become an associate professor. She moved to Yale University in 2004.
In 2005, Adams published two books on historical sociology: The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe 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. She collaborated with Hannah Bruckner of New York University-Abu Dhabi.