Adam comes to Cambridge from the University of Chicago, where he was Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences.
He has a BA in Ancient and Modern History from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, an MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of London, and a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Adam’s research interests are in early modern European political thought, particularly its imperial aspects.
His first book examines conceptions of empire in the republican thought of the Italian Renaissance and culminates in a systematic reconstruction of Machiavelli’s theory of the imperial republic.
