Biography
Adam S. Green is an anthropological archaeologist in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, where he worked on the ERC-funded TwoRains project and now works on the Global Challenges Research Fund’s TIGR2ESS project. He investigates the origins of inequality and social sustainability, and he has a collaborative fieldwork programme in northwest India that makes use of cutting-edge digital and computational spatial analysis techniques. He uncovers ancient cities and villages and reconstructs their past socio-economic relationships. Most recently, his research has appeared in the Journal of Archaeological Research and the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and his collaborative work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Adam’s interest in inequality in the past is closely tied to a desire to reduce inequality in the present. As a result, he emphasises communicating academic research to non-academic audiences through heritage-based initiatives that attract the interest of the public, government officials and interdisciplinary audiences alike. For example, in his current role on the TIGR2ESS project, he contributes to stakeholder consultations with policymakers from India. These collaborations are advancing our knowledge of the collective governance of surface water in the past that can help make Indian agriculture more resilient to climate change.
