My name’s Adam (he/him).

I am the Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the University of Ottawa, part of the Faculty of Arts’ Sustainable Cities Initiative.

I am also a member of the Research Centre on the Future of Cities. Before coming to uOttawa (Omamìwìnini Anishnàbeg territory), I was Senior Research Associate at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. I am a member of the Executive Committee of the Climate Change Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association and an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews.

I hold a Ph.D and M.A. from McGill University in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Québec (unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory). My doctoral dissertation was about the challenges and possibilities of global anthropogenic climate change, both politically and anthropologically. I’m now conducting new research and developing a book project based on this work. Learn more about my research here.
For a glimpse into my teaching, see a sample syllabus here and here.

I have extensive academic leadership, service and administrative experience (see CV).

I have an interdisciplinary B.A., the equivalent to a double major in Anthropology (qualitative social sciences, Native Studies, Environmental Studies) and French Humanities (French language, literature, philosophy), from The Evergreen State College (Coast Salish territory). After that, I taught English in rural Brittany, France. Je suis bilingue en français et en anglais.

My public-facing writing has appeared in anthro{dendum}, Allegra Lab and SAPIENS.

I am also a Section Editor at the Society for Cultural Anthropology, where I have written a bit and done a lot of public anthropology leading the Social Media Team.

You can find me on Twitter @afleisch_anthro and Bluesky @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social.