About the instructor

Laura L. Adams got her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught academic writing in the Harvard Writing Program and has spent decades mentoring early- and mid-career researchers from Central Asia and other regions on how to frame arguments, engage scholarly literatures, and navigate the peer-review process. 

Her research has been published in respected peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Slavic Review, Europe-Asia Studies, and Central Asian Studies.