Glenn Adams

Glenn Adams
  • Professor

Contact Info

Fraser Hall, Room #418
Lawrence
1415 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045

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Biography —

Glenn Adams is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Kansas African Studies Center. An enduring theme of his work is the idea of “General Psychology Otherwise”—an effort to re-think standard accounts of human mind and being from the epistemic standpoint of everyday African realities. His current projects apply this perspective (a) to experience of well-being in collaborative research with colleagues at the University of Ghana and (2) to articulate decolonial perspectives in psychology with other members of the Readsura Decolonial Editorial Collective.

Research —

Interests: Perceptions of racism and injustice; collective memory and identity

Selected Publications —

Adams, G., & Omar, S. M. (2024). Confronting racism-evasive ignorance in standard pedagogy of hegemonic social psychology. Journal of Social Issues, 1-22.

Hakim, N., Abi-Ghannam, G., Saab, R., Albzour, M., Zebian, Y., & Adams, G. (2023). Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler-colonial status quo in historic Palestine. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(Suppl. 1), 211–38.

Lies, T. S., Adams, G., & Santangelo, B. (2022). Decolonial considerations of environmentalism: Observations from a (US) State Park. Psychology in Society (PINS), 64(1), 21-43.

Osei-Tutu, A., Adams, G., Esiaka, D., Dzokoto, V., & Affram, A.A. (2022). The modernity/ coloniality of love: Individualist lifeways and charismatic christianity in Ghanaian worlds. Journal of Social Issues, 78(1), 183-208. Decolonial Psychology Editorial Collective (random order:

Suffla, S., Reddy, G., Adams, G., Ratele, K., & Stevens, G.) (2021). General Psychology Otherwise: A decolonial articulation. Review of General Psychology, 25(4), 339-353.

Adams, G., Estrada-Villalta, S., Sullivan, D., & Markus, H. R. (2019). The psychology of neoliberalism and the neoliberalism of psychology. Journal of Social Issues, 75(1) 189-216.

Dirth, T. P.,* & Adams, G. (2019). Decolonial theory and disability studies: On the modernity/coloniality of ability. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 260–289.

Adams, G., Salter, P.S., Kurtiş T., Naemi, P.*, & Estrada-Villalta, S.* (2018). Subordinated knowledge as a tool for creative maladjustment. Journal of Social Issues, 74(2), 337-354.

Salter, P.S., Adams, G., & Perez, M.J. (2018). Racism in the structure of everyday worlds: A cultural-psychological perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 27(3) 150-155.