Our Team

Adam Herpolsheimer is a Law and Policy Analyst at the Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law Center for Public Health Law Research. In addition to their work at the Center, Adam is an adjunct professor at the law school where they teach courses on both health policy and the intersection between popular culture and the United States Constitution. Adam received their law degree from Rutgers Law School in 2018, has a bachelor’s degree in film & media studies from the University of Kansas, and most recently finished a master’s degree in anthropology from Temple. Adam is currently a doctoral student in the Religion Department at Temple, where their work focuses on the ways in which trans exclusionary radical feminism and “gender critical” thought more broadly function as an intelligible ideology, how that ideology came to be, and the role Western religiosity has played in its structure. Adam writes and publishes on each of these topics as well as on French philosopher Michel Foucault.

Adam loves playing sports, from soccer to tennis, and most extensively softball. Adam has played recreational softball across the country and on at least two continents. They joined Philadelphia Adult League Softball (PALS) in 2022 and have hardly voluntarily missed a game since. They have gone on Change Up Sports' group volunteer service trips to Sierra Leone a number of times, and they hope to continue going.

Outside of their on-field commitment to hustling, Adam is an avid sport spectator, but they wouldn’t necessarily say they “like” watching professional sports so much as they instinctually and irrationally support a series of professional clubs who all happened to win their respective championships in 1981. In addition to those teams, all inherited from their father (presumably 1981’s biggest bandwagoner), Adam has also come to support a fairly well-known Scouse footballing club, who serendipitously also won a European championship in 1981.

Adam lives in South Philadelphia with their two award-winning miniature dachshunds, Nichols and Dennison.