- Associate Professor, Urban Studies, Worcester State University
- Email: asaltsman@worcester.edu
Adam Saltsman is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Executive Director of the Urban Action Institute at Worcester State University. His research and teaching explore the intersection of borders, mobility, and gender relations in the lives of people and communities dealing with displacement and exile. Adam’s 2022 book Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier (Syracuse U Press) follows the lives and work of Burmese activists who live in exile and respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar. Adam also works on participatory action research as well as other approaches that aim to democratize the practice of research. He has engaged in a number of collaborative projects with Worcester-based community organizations, including Making Worcester Home, which Adam created in 2018 and which amplifies the voices of youth from refugee backgrounds on the topic of urban belonging. Adam has also published on these topics in Geopolitics, the Journal of Refugee Studies, Refuge, and Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement. Adam has also worked with grassroots and international humanitarian and human rights NGOs in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.