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Adam Green
Lecturer in Sustainability

Biography

Dr Green is an archaeologist who specialises in the relationship between inequality and sustainability over long periods of time. His research highlights the surprising prevalence of egalitarianism in the archaeological record. His interest in inequality in the past is tied to a strong desire to reduce inequalities in the present, so he works closely with farmers, economists, agronomists, and other communities to identify ways insights from the past can make the world fairer and more sustainable.

Adam began working in India in 2009 as a Fulbright scholar affiliated with the National Museum of India in Delhi and a research scholar affiliated with the Deccan College Post-graduate Institute for Archaeology in Pune. While working on his doctorate at New York University, he contributed to fieldwork at the past settlements of Farmana, Karsola and the ancient city of Rakhigarhi. In 2015, he earned a PhD in from New York University’s Department of Anthropology while teaching as an Instructor of Anthropology at Georgia State University. He then joined the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2016, and led collaborative surveys with Dr Aftab Alam from Banaras Hindu University, locating ancient villages in India as part of the European Research Council-funded TwoRains project. In 2018, he joined the Global Challenges Research Fund-ed TIGR2ESS Project, a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project that worked across universities and research institutes in the United Kingdom and India to improve the sustainability of Indian agriculture. In addition to working with a wide network of Cambridge scholars in geography and development studies, he developed active collaborations with economists and agronomists at Punjab Agricultural University, the Centers for International Projects Trust and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics. Adam was also a Research Associate at King’s College, Cambridge, where he worked with students and scholars in archaeology and beyond to identify ways knowledge from the past could address global challenges.

Adam joined the University of York as a Lecturer in Sustainability in 2022, and is undertaking research and teaching that challenges old thinking about inequality and sustainability using data and insights from the past. He holds a dual appointment in the Department of Archaeology and Department of Environment and Geography, and welcomes discussions from potential PhD or post-doctoral researchers interested in designing and funding projects that focus on sustainability, inequality, agricultural economies, the Green Revolution, and the archaeology of South Asia.

Contact details

Dr Adam Green
Lecturer in Sustainability
Dept. of Archaeology and Dept. of Environment and Geography
University of York
The King's Manor
York
YO1 7EP