Paul C. Adams

Paul C. Adams is an American geographer who is Professor and Director of Urban Studies at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin.

Adams applies various approaches from human geography to study media and communication.

His research has helped develop the subdiscipline geography of media and communication by integrating studies of place representations, communication infrastructures, social processes, and routines of media use in daily life.

Adams specializes in geography of communication technologies, nationalism, critical geopolitics, and representations of space and place.

He has also held visiting professor appointments at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, in Germany, and University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.