Harvard Club of Alabama

Joe Adams, Ph.D. will present on taxes and the Alabama Constitution. Dr. Adams is Research Coordinator at the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama. He has almost 30 years of experience in government research, analysis, and planning, including eight years in state government as a senior legislative research analyst with the Comptroller of the Treasury’s Offices of Research and Educational Accountability in Tennessee, a budget and performance analyst for the Texas Legislature with the Legislative Budget Board, and the first director of planning for the Texas Workforce Commission. Before working in government, he was the research director for Political Research, Inc. He has taught a wide variety of courses in political science and public administration as a visiting assistant professor at Auburn University, a member of the graduate faculty at Mississippi State University, where he worked with the John C. Stennis Institute of Government, and a lecturer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  He holds a B.A. from Texas A&M University (political science and history), and a Ph.D. (political science) from Vanderbilt University.