Ánh Adams (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD student in American History and Women’s and Gender History. She earned a B.A in History and Geography from Texas State University. Her research explores the history of gendered youth incarceration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century American Midwest. She is thematically interested in the history of childhood and the state, and the intersections between incarceration, gender, and the family.
Ánh contributed to the edited collection Capturing Labor: A History of Unfree Work in the Southwest (UT Press, 2026) with her article “The Carceral Rescue Industry: World War I-Era Anti-Prostitution Campaigns in Texas.” She has also written about public history and immigration for The Nation.
In addition, Ánh is a public humanities scholar who has worked as an intern on the Truth and Repair: The History of Structural Racism in New Jersey and the New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor projects. She has earned a Public Humanities Graduate Certificate from the Rutgers Public Humanities Initiative.