Adam Thomas

Contact Us

Room: M-Building, M-204
Phone: (718) 482-5940
naturalsci@lagcc.cuny.edu

Monday- Thursday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Education

Ph.D. in History, UC Irvine
M.A. in Modern History, University College London
B.A. in International History, University of Leeds

Areas of Expertise or Research

Writing programs and their administration
Writing across the curriculum (WAC) /Writing in the discipline (WID)
Composing processes
Institutional ethnography

About

Adam Thomas studies early American, Caribbean, and African American history, with a focus on slavery, emancipation, kinship, rebellion, and historical memory. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Council on Library and Information Resources, American Antiquarian Society, American Philosophical Society, Virginia Historical Society, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. His work has been published in the Journal of Southern History, Slavery & Abolition, Journal of Global Slavery, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Black Perspectives, and Picturing Black History. A new article, co-authored with Liz Harper of Western Carolina University, is forthcoming in the Journal of Appalachian Studies.