Adom is an ethnographer and grandchild of the Caribbean (specifically, Dominica) whose work spans:
(i) Black & Indigenous ecologies, hurricane survivals & repair;
(ii) the material & affective afterlives of slavery;
(iii) Caribbean kinship & fatherhood. Methodologically, he draws on collaborative & experimental ethnographic approaches (digital mapping, archives, visual & sonic methods, and Caribbean poetics).
His scholarly practice seeks the 'grounding' of live questions – on environmental justice, how we remember slavery and Caribbean kinship – in public dialogue.
From 2019-2023 he led the GCRF Surviving Storms | CCC project, which used multimodal research to map/archive hurricane adaptation, survivals & repair in Dominica. He is author of the book Still Standing (Papillotte, 2022 w/ M Honychurch) and To Live in the Hurricane’s Path (Chicago, forthcoming), as well several other papers and co-produced films that emerged from Surviving Storms, and earlier projects on Bristolian slavery and Caribbean Fatherhood. He also curated the Caribbean Studies Collection for Senate House Library.