- Royce Fellowship
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Adam worked with students from the state juvenile corrections facility and from Brown to create, produce and distribute a newspaper addressing issues of social justice. With the support of professors, professional journalists and educators, the publication brought together different skills and complementary perspectives to areas of mutual concern.
Adam is a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Adam is also the author of two books. Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison (University of California Press, 2010) explores how poor young men make sense of their social and economic exclusion, and how they interact with a juvenile justice system that increasingly has lost any pretense of rehabilitation. With God On Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital (Cornell University Press, 2012) examines what has happened to work and labor struggle in the Catholic hospital in a context of increasing market pressures. As a Health & Society Scholar, Adam plans to engage in a historical examination of changes in the relationship between hospitals and prisons over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Adam received his Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley