James R. Rush

Who is James R. Rush?

James Robert Rush is an American historian, writer, editor, researcher, essayist, consultant and professor. Rush studied modern Southeast Asian history at Yale University. Rush obtained a PhD degree from Yale University in 1977. As a public historian, Rush is an expert on modern Southeast Asia. As an educator, Rush is an associate professor of history in the School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He has served as Director of Arizona State University's Program for Southeast Asian Studies and as Associate Chair of the History Department of the university. As a consultant, Rush worked with The Asia Society, El Colegio de México, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. As a researcher, Rush's most recent research in Indonesia was conducted under the Fulbright Senior Scholarship Program.