Professor of History
Acting Center Director, 2013-2014
Email: spadams@ufl.edu
Learn more about Sam Adams on his website
Sean Adams (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1999) is Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History and specializes in the history of American capitalism, as well as the history of energy. Dr. Adams’ recent book argues that America’s fossil fuel addition traces back to the 19th century and is entitled Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the 19th Century (Johns Hopkins, 2014). He is also the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004) and a three-volume anthology entitled The American Coal Industry, 1789-1902 (2013). At UF he teaches courses in the history of American capitalism, the global history of energy and 19th century U.S. history.