Julia P. Adams
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Yale University
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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.
Recent Publications
Books
- 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.
Chapters
- 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.
Articles
- Adams, Julia (2006). “More About States and Families: Rejoinder to Charrad, Ermakoff, Price and Tilly [pdf],” in Symposium on Julia Adams’ The Familial State, ASA Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology Newsletter, 17 (2): 1-18.
- 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.
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate
- SOCY110, Human Societies.
- SOCY115, Contemporary American Society.
- SOCY121, The Sociological Imagination.
- SOCY210, Sociology of the Welfare State.
Graduate
- SOCY536, Colonialism and Empire.
- SOCY542, Sociological Theory.
- SOCY557, Political Sociology.
- SOCY560, Comparative Research Workshop.
- SOCY590, Early Modern Empires: Theory and History.
Major Editorships
- Sociological Theory: Julia Adams, Jeffrey Alexander, Ronald Eyerman and Philip Gorski, co-editors.
- Politics, History and Culture Series (published by Duke University Press): Julia Adams and George Steinmetz, co-editors.
Affiliations
Yale
- Center for Comparative Research
- European Studies Council
- International Affairs Council
- Transitions to Modernity Colloquium
- Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
National & International
- 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