Faculty

Paul Adams
Associate Professor
Director of Urban Studies Program

• Office: GRG 414
• Phone: 512-232-1599
• Office Hours: 1:30-2:30 TTh
• E-mail: paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu
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• Education: Ph.D. , Paul Adams received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1984 (Special Honors), and his MS and Ph.D. in geography from University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990, 1993). He was a visiting Fulbright Fellow and Thomas O. Enders Fellow at McGill University and University of Montreal, Quebec, in fall semester, 2001. Since 2003 he has been Director of the Urban Studies Program.


• Courses Taught:
  Adams regularly teaches This Human World (introductory human geography) and Introduction to Urban Studies. He has also taught Geographies of the Information Society, Statistics for Policy Design, Urban Studies Research Methodologies, and graduate seminar addressing representation and political geography.


• Research Interests:
  Adams applies various geographical lenses to communication, addressing communication infrastructure, communication as a social process, and communication as an element of individual experience. His most recent works address foreign perceptions of the United States and the ways the symbolic construction of "America" has shifted in foreign media as a result of terrorism, warfare, and unilateralism in American foreign policy. His work engages with the growing body of literature in critical geopolitics as well as with humanistic geography and social theory. He has just completed a textbook called Geographies of Media and Communication (Wiley-Blackwell,2009).


• Selected Publications:
  

  Adams, P.C. 2009. Geographies of Media and Communication: A Critical Introduction. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

  Adams, P.C. 2007. Atlantic Reverberations: French Representations of an American Election. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. Find it on WorldCat

  Adams, P.C. 2007. Technological Change. Guest editor of special issue of Ethics, Place and Environment 10 (1).

  Adams, P.C. 2005. The Boundless Self: Communication in Physical and Virtual Spaces. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

  Adams, P.C. 2004. The September 11 Attacks as Viewed from Quebec: The Small-Nation Myth in Geopolitical Discourse. Political Geography 23 (6), 765-795.

  Adams, P.C. and Ghose, R. 2003. India.com: the Construction of a Space Between. Progress in Human Geography 27 (4), 414-437.

  Adams, P.C., Hoelscher, S. and Till, K., editors. 2001. Textures of Place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

  Adams, P.C. 1998. Network Topologies and Virtual Place. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88 (1), 88-106.

  Adams, P.C. 1996. Protest and the Scale Politics of Telecommunications. Political Geography 15 (5), 419-441.

  Adams, P.C. 1995. A Reconsideration of Personal Boundaries in Space-Time. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85 (2), 267-285.