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Adam M. Croom, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program at UC Berkeley. He’s an Editorial Board Member for Frontiers in Psychology and the Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature, and Culture. He’s also Guest Associate Editor for the Philosophies Special Issue on the Philosophy and Science of Martial Arts (2023), Guest Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue on Music and the Embodied Mind (2015), and Guest Associate Editor for the Language Sciences Special Issue on Slurs (2015). He’s published +26 articles across the cognitive sciences and has been cited +1,276 times.
Adam defended his dissertation on slurs in Glasgow on 22 November 2019 and received his Ph.D. in Linguistics on 25 November 2020. For postdoctoral education, he completed a certificate in American Sign Language Science from Georgetown, a certificate in Data Analytics from Caltech, a certificate in Artificial Intelligence from Microsoft, and a certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Harvard.
Adam is a member of the Cognitive Science Society and a reviewer for +88 scholarly journals including:
- Acta Analytica: International Periodical for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition
- Acta Paediatrica
- Action Research
- Advances in Health Sciences Education
- Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing
- Armed Forces and Society
- Atlantic Journal of Communication
- Axiomathes: Where Science Meets Philosophy
- Basic and Applied Social Psychology
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Biosemiotics
- BJPsych Bulletin
- BMC Psychology
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science
- Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory
- Counselling Psychology Quarterly
- Criminal Justice and Behavior
- Current Research in Physiology
- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
- Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy
- Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
- Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy
- Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
- Experimental Aging Research
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
- Health Psychology Open
- Howard Journal of Communication
- Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
- Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
- Information Design Journal
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations
- International Journal of Multilingualism
- International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
- International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
- International Journal of Strategic Communication
- International Journal of Wellbeing
- International Sociology
- ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
- Journal of Adolescent Research
- Journal of Advanced Academics
- Journal of Applied Social Science
- Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
- Journal of Child Language
- Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
- Journal of Cognition and Culture
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
- Journal of General Psychology
- Journal of Humanistic Psychology
- Journal of Moral Education
- Journal of Music and Meaning
- Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Studies
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Journal of the American Philosophical Association
- Journal of Youth and Theology
- Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa
- Mass Communication and Society
- Media, War, and Conflict
- Mental Health, Religion, and Culture
- Military Psychology
- Mind and Language
- Musicae Scientiae: The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
- Omega: Journal of Death and Dying
- Organon F: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy
- Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Philosophical Psychology
- Philosophical Studies
- Political Psychology: Journal of the International Society for Political Psychology
- Pragmatics and Society
- Psychology of Music
- Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches
- SAGE Open
- School Psychology International
- Science and Education
- Society and Animals
- South African Journal of Philosophy
- Southern Journal of Philosophy
- Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
- Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
- Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
- Timing and Time Perception
- Visual Studies
- Western Journal of Communication
A verified record of his scholarly service is available on Publons.
Adam’s scholarly awards include two research fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2011-2012), two Elizabeth F. Flower prizes for best essay in philosophy from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (2009-2011), the Positive Studies Prize for best essay in positive psychology from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2013), the Elmaleh Prize for best essay in the social sciences from the Phi Beta Kappa Society (2010-2011), and the Military Veteran’s Scholarship from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans (2006-2012). He also received the Publons Sentinels of Science Award for Outstanding Peer Review (2016) and a Frontiers in Psychology Honoraria for Outstanding Editorial Contribution (2013).
Before Adam completed his Ph.D., he was a Master Instructor for Everlast and taught their Striking Specialist Level 1 course in Redondo Beach, California. His background is primarily in boxing and Muay Thai.
Adam is also a decorated veteran with an Air Medal from the United States Air Force. He has a yellow lab named Loki and #hodls Bitcoin and Etherium.
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