Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.  His research projects centre on the relationship between labour and settler colonialism. The first is a collaborative project that traces the history of the contested regulation of Indigenous labour relations through the so-called “core of Indianness,” a legal concept used to determine federal jurisdiction over Indigenous enterprises.

He is also co-investigator on a SSHRC Partnership Grant (“Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts”), which critically examines temporary labour migration programs in the context of settler-colonial states (Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand).