Adam Hinden

Adam completed his BA in Anthropology and Chinese Studies at the College of Wooster in 2022, before moving to the UK to undertake an MPhil in Social Anthropological Research at the University of Cambridge the following year. His research at both institutions focused on Han allyship and conceptions of land within Indigenous-led social movements in Taiwan. 

This research was bolstered through advocacy and archival work surrounding settlerhood, anti-colonial resistance, and revitalization with the Center for World Indigenous Studies, Wikitongues, Taipei’s Shungye Museum, Smithsonian Folkways, and Indigenous Bridges.   Since graduating from the University of Cambridge, Adam has also worked with ACLED to conduct open-source research on social movements in Taiwan, Aotearoa, and elsewhere around the Pacific. He has also worked extensively in local mutual and direct aid organizing, including with Jewish communities in the UK and US.   

In 2025, he received a CHASE Doctoral Studentship to complete a PhD in Anthropology at SOAS, where he is researching ritual practice and political mobilization among anti-Zionist Jewish communities in Oceania and Europe, focusing on diasporist placemaking, anti-colonial and mystical entwinements in notions of exile and return, and ethnographies of settlerhood. 

Hinden Adam, You Ziying, Guo Zhen (2023) Online activism and grassroots memorialization in the age of COVID-19: Dr. Li Wenliang’s virtual wailing wall. Cultural Analysis Forum Series 1: 1–22.

Anthropology of Social Movements, Anthropology of Religion, Decolonial Theory and Geography, Indigeneity, Diaspora/Diapsorism, Zionism, Settlerhood, Migration, Mysticism, Allyship and Solidarity, China, Taiwan, Oceania