My name’s Adam (he/him).

I hold a Ph.D and M.A. from McGill University in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Québec (unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory).

I am currently Senior Research Associate at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and Affiliate Member of the Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews.

My dissertation investigated the challenges and possibilities of global anthropogenic climate change, both politically and anthropologically. Learn more about my research here.
For a glimpse into my teaching, see a sample syllabus here and here.

At McGill and beyond I have extensive leadership, service and administrative experience (see CV).

I hold an interdisciplinary B.A., the equivalent to a double major in Anthropology (qualitative social sciences, Native Studies, Environmental Studies) and French Humanities (French language, literature, philosophy), from The Evergreen State College (Coast Salish territory). Afterwards, I taught English in rural Brittany, France. Je suis bilingue en français et en anglais.

I have wanted to be an anthropology professor since I was seventeen, when I took an anthropology course at my public high school. I was raised in Wayne County, in the sprawling part of Southeast Michigan that compels people to say “I’m from Detroit,” even if not the city proper. The Indigenous proprietors and stewards of the land where I grew up are the Anishinaabeg Nations of the Odawa (primarily), Ojibwe and Potawatomi and later the Meskwaki (Fox) Nation. My own great- and great-great-grandparents came to the U.S. from Scotland, Germany and Ireland.

My public-facing writing has appeared in anthro{dendum}, Allegra Lab and SAPIENS.

I am a Section Editor at the Society for Cultural Anthropology, where I have also been a Contributing Editor. I co-lead the Social Media Team, one of the largest, and most dynamic, social media presences in North American academia. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

At McGill, I have been a Fellow of the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, and was also the recipient of a McCall MacBain Fellowship, the Pearson Chair In Civil Society and Public Policy Graduate Award and Graduate Excellence Awards.

Follow me on Twitter @afleisch_anthro.