Ellis Adams

Dr. Adams is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Policy at Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated faculty with the Environmental Change Initiative and the Eck Institute for Global Health, and Faculty Fellow for Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Prior to arriving at Notre Dame, Dr. Adams was an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Geosciences at Georgia State University. His areas of expertise are environmental policy; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); water policy and governance; gender, water, and development; cities; political ecology; and sub-Saharan Africa. He is a consultant for the World Bank working to develop a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Health Index for Africa. Dr. Adams is the co-recipient of the Nabuo Maeda International Research Award from the American Public Health Association. In 2020, he received the Distinguished Emerging Scholar Award from the American Association of Geographers.