Mikaëla M. Adams

Consultant

Education

•   University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Ph.D. U.S. History
•   University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, M.A. U.S. History
•   Miami University, B.A. History, Anthropology, and French

About Mikaëla

Mikaëla M. Adams received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2012. She taught courses on post-Reconstruction U.S. history, Native American history, and American medical history at the University of Mississippi from 2012 to 2023. Her book, Who Belongs?: Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She is also the author of five peer-reviewed journal articles and several academic book chapters. Her most recent research has focused on uncovering the stories of Indigenous people during the influenza pandemic of 1918-20, particularly in the federal government’s nonreservation Indian boarding schools. Mikaëla joined the Winthrop Group as a consultant in 2025.