She is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.

[2][3][4][5][6] Adom was awarded a PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University in 2015.

She was raised in Ethiopia and Botswana until the age of 13, when her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, United States.

[8][9][10] Her first book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019), centers the work of African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists and their efforts to challenge the global hierarchy.

[12] These stratified relationships continue to perpetrate imperial structures.