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Julia P. Adams

Julia Adams

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Department of Sociology
Yale University
Office Location : 140 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06511-8933 USA
Delivery Address (for packages) : 140 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06511-8933 USA
Postal Address (all other mail) : P.O. Box 208265 New Haven CT 06520-8265 USA
Phone : +1-203-432-3332
Facsimile : +1-203-432-6976
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Professor of Sociology
Professor in International and Area Studies
Chair, International Affairs Council, MacMillan Center
Co-Director, Center for Comparative Research (CCR)

Julia Adams teaches and conducts research in the areas of state formation; gender and family; social theory; early modern European politics, and colonialism and empire. She is currently studying contemporary forms of patriarchal macropolitics, and the historical sociology of agency relations. She was previously the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her book The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Cornell 2005) won the Gaddis Smith Book Prize. With Elisabeth S. Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff, she recently edited Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (Duke 2005). Her work has twice won the Barrington Moore Jr. Award for Best Article given by the ASA section in Comparative and Historical Sociology. Adams graduated from Reed College and did her graduate work in sociology (with a combined minor in history and anthropology) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She serves as President of the Social Science History Association in 2008–9. At Yale she chairs the International Affairs Council and directs (with Philip Gorski) the Center for Comparative Research and (with Steven Pincus) the Transitions to Modernity Workshop. She also co-edits the journal Sociological Theory and (with George Steinmetz) the Series in Politics, History and Culture at Duke University Press.

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