Adam has been conducting collaborative fieldwork at the intersection of archaeology, heritage and agriculture in India for more than a decade, and uses digital, computational and quantitative methods to rapidly assemble and analyse large-scale datasets that can be used to investigate long-term trends in human economies. In particular, his research asks what is the relationship between inequality and sustainability? 

His currently projects include:

• Gini Project, a National Science Foundation-funded international working group on ancient inequality. 
• Critical Paleoeconomics, a project dedicated in bringing global archaeological data into conversation with critical debates in economics.
• Collaborative fieldwork in Haryana and Punjab, a series of archaeological surveys, excavations and historical surveys in the “Granary” of India.

Adam’s research is collaborative and cooperative, and actively promotes substantive  dialogues that will be necessary to making the world fairer and more sustainable.