Julia P. Adams
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Yale University
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Professor of Sociology
Professor in International and Area Studies
Joseph C. Fox Director, Fox International Fellowships,
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 large-scale forms of patriarchal politics 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 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 served as 2008-9 President of the Social Science History Association.
At Yale she directs the Fox Fellowship Program; chairs the International Affairs Council and co-directs the Center for Comparative Research and the Transitions to Modernity Workshop. She also co-edits (with George Steinmetz) the Series in Politics, History and Culture at Duke University Press. --
SSHA Presidential Address
- Julia Adams’ presidency of the Social Science History Association came to a close November 12-15, 2009, with the association's annual conference. Adams'presidential address, "1-800-How-Am-I-Driving? Agency in Social Science History," is available for download on the SSHA web site.
- Adams, Julia (2005). The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Adams, Julia, Elisabeth S. Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff (2005). Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Adams, Julia (2005). “The Rule of the Father: Patriarchy and Patrimonialism in Early Modern Europe [pdf],” pp. 237-266 in C. Camic, P. S. Gorski and D. M. Trubek (eds.), Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companion. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Adams, Julia (1999). “Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation [pdf],” pp. 98-122 in G. Steinmetz (ed.), State/Culture: State Formation After the Cultural Turn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Adams, Julia (2008). “Scholarly Controversy: The Familial State,” pp 237-294 in Political Power and Social Theory, Vol 19, 2008.
- Adams, Julia and Ann Shola Orloff (2005). “Defending Modernity? High Politics, Feminist Anti-Modernism and the Place of Gender,” in Politics and Gender, 1 (1).
- Adams, Julia and Tasleem Padamsee (2001). “Signs and Regimes: Rereading Feminist Work on Welfare States [pdf],” Social Politics, 8 (1): 1-23.
- Adams, Julia (1996). “Principals and Agents, Colonialists and Company Men: The Decay of Colonial Control in the Dutch East Indies,” American Sociological Review, 61 (1): 12-28.
- Sara McLanahan and Julia Adams. (1987) “Parenthood and Psychological Wellbeing,” Annual Review of Sociology 13, eds. R. Turner and J. Short. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews: 237-57
- SOCY115, Contemporary American Society.
- SOCY121, The Sociological Imagination.
- SOCY160, Methods of Inquiry.
- SOCY210, Sociology of the Welfare State.
- SOCY542, Sociological Theory.
- SOCY557, Political Sociology.
- SOCY560, Comparative Research Workshop.
- SOCY590, Early Modern Empires: Theory and History.
- SOCY612, Agency and Action.
- Politics, History and Culture Series (published by Duke University Press): Julia Adams and George Steinmetz, co-editors.
- Center for Comparative Research
- European Studies Council
- International Affairs Council
- Transitions to Modernity Colloquium
- Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- American Sociological Association (ASA):
- Council for European Studies
- International Institute of Sociology
- International Sociological Association
- North American Conference on British Studies
- Social Science History Association
- Society for Comparative Research
- Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
- Sociologists for Women in Society