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About Julia Adams (sociologist)
- Julia Potter Adams is an American sociologist who works in the area of comparative and historical sociology.
- Julia Adams is a professor of Sociology.
- She conducts research in the areas of state building, gender and family, social theory and knowledge, early modern European politics, and Colonialism and empire.
- Her current research focuses on the historical sociology of agency relations and modernity, gender, race, and the representation of academic knowledge on Wikipedia and on other digital platforms.
- Adams is Professor of Sociology and International & Area Studies and Head of Grace Hopper College, Yale.
- She also co-directs YaleCHESS (Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences) and is on the Board of Reed College.
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