Adam Waters is a PhD Candidate in History at Yale University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Faith in Liberation: The Christian Liberationist Movement in Inter-American Religion and Politics, 1968-1990,” traces the history of Christian liberation theology and its influence on left politics and activism in the Americas in the 1970s and 1980s. He has also written about the 1980s Sanctuary Movement and is the author of “Alternative Internationalisms: The Sanctuary Movement and Jim Corbett’s Civil Initiative,” published in Diplomatic History in November 2022. Adam has taught in courses on American political history and modern Christian history.

In addition to his academic work, Adam is the current president of UNITE HERE Local 33, the graduate worker union at Yale. He has been organizing in the academic labor movement since 2018 and was previously a member of the Local 33 Bargaining Committee, which successfully negotiated Yale's first graduate worker union contract.

Prior to graduate school, Adam worked for several years in Washington, D.C., in interfaith political advocacy and as a researcher on American politics and religion.