Adams Brief Bio
Dr. Kimberly S. Adams, President and Managing Director of Adams Political
Research & Consulting, is a longtime political activist and youth
leader. She worked as an intern on Capitol Hill in two Congressional
offices in the mid-1990’s. She has participated in intensive
campaign training seminars on women and politics and grassroots mobilization.
She serves as a part-time, senior research and issues consultant
for the Mississippi Policy Forum and is a veteran of numerous federal,
state and local candidate and issue campaigns.
Dr. Adams currently serves as Assistant Professor of Political
Science at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Adams' areas
of teaching include American National Government, Women and Politics,
Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, Political Parties, Political
Communication, the Institutions of Government, and Campaigns and Elections. Dr.
Adams served as a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities
Council’s 2006-2007 lecture series.
In January, 2008, Dr. Adams served as the Keynote Speaker at East Stroudsburg
University’s Eleventh Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Breakfast. In April 2007, Dr. Adams delivered the commencement address
for the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars’ spring
graduation. During the summer of 2006, Dr. Adams taught at Georgetown
University for the Junior Statesmen Foundation of America and was chosen
to deliver the commencement address to the 2006 summer graduates (session
2). In the summer of 2005, Dr. Adams taught at Yale University through
the same program and lectured at the Yale Women’s Campaign School’s
annual conference. In December 2006, Dr. Adams spoke at the Columbia
Political Union’s annual fundraiser at Columbia University and
was appointed to serve on the Columbia Political Union’s Advisory
Board.
Dr. Adams' research explores the agenda setting behavior of
non-traditional legislators (i.e. - women and African-Americans). She
has presented academic papers on women and politics at the state, national
and international levels. She studied British Law and Politics at King's
College in London, England, has participated in the Salzburg Seminar
in Salzburg, Austria, and at the Oxford Round Table in Oxford, England.
Last summer (2007), Dr. Adams made presentations at the University of
Rijeka, in Rijeka, Croatia and Vrije Universiteit (Free University) in
Amsterdam, Holland. In December 2005, she gave a presentation at the
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Her
most recent publications include: “Different Faces: Different Priorities: Agenda-Setting
Behavior in the Mississippi, Maryland, and Georgia State Legislatures;” “Jefferson,
Jackson, and Hamer: Race and the Democratic Party in Mississippi” and “Influences
Upon Parity: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Female Representation in
National Legislatures.” Dr. Adams’ most recent co-authored
articles include: “Strengthening the Spine of Democracy: How Women
are Changing the Face of sub-Saharan African Politics,” and “Mississippi:
An Emerging Democracy Creating a Culture of Civic Participation among
Formerly Oppressed Peoples.”
Dr. Adams received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science at
the University of Southern Mississippi and her Ph.D. in Political Science
at the University of Mississippi.
She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the National
Organization for Women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, Phi Kappa
Phi National Honor Society, and the American Association of University
Women. She sits on the Alumni Advisory Board for the Washington Center
for Internships and Academic Seminars in Washington, DC.
