Kim Adams is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Medical Humanities at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Kim co-hosts the podcast High Theory and is a founding member of the Humanities Podcast Network. She is one of four editors of the Palgrave Handbook of Humanities Podcasting.

Her book project, Breeding the Body Electric, follows the application of electricity to the human body in American literature and medicine from the Civl War to the Civil Rights Era, arguing that electric medicine works to form bodies into raced, sexed, and gendered subjects. Her research makes use of methods from the medical humanities, science and technology studies, media studies and literary scholarship.

An article connected to this project appeared in Post 45 titled "Feminist Eugenics: Coerced Sterilization and Mandated Maternity" as part of the Abortion Now, Abortion Forever cluster.

As a scholar and educator, Kim is invested in work that combines material history
with theoretical stakes to evoke practical consequences.