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 AHRC Doctoral Studentship to complete a PhD in Anthropology at SOAS. There, he is researching emergent, alternative Jewish collectives in Australia and Aotearoa bearing witness to the deepening entwinements between Judaism, genocide in Palestine, and right-wing nationalism at home. His study treats the Jewish calendar year 5787 itself as an ethnographic and methodological framework, exploring how it is reckoned from outside of the mainstream community, shapes collective mobilizations, and adapts to lands seasonally inversed from ritual time. In doing so, assumptions of diasporic hybridity, identity, and rootedness are problematized as outward belonging is negotiated against inward rupture. His study brings together radical diasporist thought, settler colonial studies, and anthropological perspectives from the temporal and ontological turns

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.

• Diaspora
• Indigeneity
• Land
• Temporality
• Social Movements
• Geography
• Archipelagic Studies