Interim Cognizant Associate Dean for:
- Department of Classics
- Department of English
- Department of History
- Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Religion
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Center for Children’s Literature and Culture
- Center for Film and Media Studies
- Center for Greek Studies
- Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
- Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Center for Modern German Studies
- Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions
- France-Florida Research Institute
- Global Islamic Studies
- Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts
- Program in Creative Writing
- Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
- University Writing Program
- William and Grace Dial for Speech and Communication Studies
Areas of Responsibility
- College representative to UF-UFF contract negotiations
- Faculty grievances
- Faculty salaries/raises/market equity/bylaws
- Sexual harassment
- Undergraduate student academic complaints and concerns
- Unit bylaws
- Honorifics
- Humanities Endowed Scholarship Fund
Brief Biography
Sean Adams (Ph.D., Wisconsin) is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History and interim associate dean. He teaches classes on the global history of energy, American capitalism, and 19th century U.S. History. Adams is the founder and director of Inquire Capitalism program (https://inquire-capitalism.clas.ufl.edu/), which supports research on global capitalism and has several public-facing digital research projects on business history.
A specialist in the Industrial Revolution, Adams is the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins, 2004), Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins, 2014), and a three-volume anthology entitled The American Coal Industry, 1789-1902 (Routledge, 2013). He is the editor of The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and The Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), as well as numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is currently writing two books, one on the economic and historical value of land in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as well as a survey of America’s Industrial Revolution.