Adam Herpolsheimer is a first year PhD student focusing on legal anthropology and the structural relation between law as a discourse and the biopolitical forces that maintain it. In addition to being part of the Anthropology department, Adam works full time as a Law and Policy Analyst at the Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law Center for Public Health Law Research.
Adam was an award-winning law student at Rutgers Law School, earning their J.D. in 2018 while receiving the Carol Russ Memorial Prize for their demonstrated commitment to and a record of distinction in promoting women's rights through the law as well as Rutgers’ Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award in Constitutional Law. During law school, they received a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University – New Brunswick and had their note, “A Third Option: Identity Documents, Gender Non-Conformity, & the Law,” published in the Women’s Rights Law Reporter. Prior to law school Adam received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in Film & Media Studies. At Rutgers Law, Adam was one of the three inaugural Public Interest Fellows at the school’s Center for Gender, Sexuality, Law & Policy. Before starting work at the Policy Surveillance Program, Adam was a law graduate/legal assistant at the Community Health Law Project in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the organization provided legal services for people with disabilities.
Faculty Advisor: Jess Marie Newman