Staff Bios
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Timothy K. Eatman, Co-director
Previous to becoming co-director, as IA’s research director, Eatman provided leadership on key research and action initiatives that have shaped regional, national and global conversations about publicly engaged scholarship. As co-principal investigator of the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship, he co-wrote its seminal report, “Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Read more...
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Scott J. Peters, Co-director
Peters has devoted his professional career to studying and strengthening higher education’s public mission, purposes and work. His research agenda focuses on the connections between higher education and democracy, especially in the land-grant system. His most recent book, “Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement” (Michigan State University Press, 2010), contributes to Read more...
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Kevin Bott, Associate Director
Prior to assuming the role of associate director, Dr. Kevin Bott was the director of IA’s PAGE program, and the director of events and publications for Imagining America, positions he held since 2008. In addition to consulting nationally with IA member institutions and partners, Kevin is the artistic director of IA’s local community arts project, Read more...
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Robin Higgins, Assistant Director
Robin Higgins is Assistant Director of Imagining America. Higgins joined Syracuse University in 1999 in the School of Education, Department of Cultural Foundations of Education as the Office Coordinator. In 2002, Higgins then held the position as Administrative Assistant in the Sociology Department at the Maxwell School until accepting the position of Assistant Director of Read more...
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Jamie Haft, Communications Manager
As Communications Manager for Imagining America, Jamie Haft is currently developing a national advocacy campaign around the critical contributions that the humanities, arts and design make to building and sustaining democratic culture. She created a comprehensive communications plan for IA and collaborates with the organization’s leadership on strategic planning. She is interested in the use Read more...
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Jeremy Lane, Administrative Specialist
Jeremy comes to Imagining America, and Syracuse, from Philadelphia, where he most recently worked at the University of Pennsylvania, at the Penn Sleep Center, a leader in sleep research and care. He has a BA in Cinema Studies from Oberlin College, and an MA in Creative Writing from Temple University. Jeremy views his role at Read more...
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Adam Bush, National PAGE director
Adam Bush has worked with Imagining America since first attending the Syracuse conference in 2007 and has been actively involved in the design of the PAGE program as its Associate Director since then. Adam is a Doctoral Candidate in the American Studies and Ethnicity department at USC working on his dissertation “Passing Notes in Class; Read more...
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Blair Ebony Smith, Central New York PAGE Director
Blair E. Smith is currently a second year sociology of education PhD student in the Cultural Foundations of Education department at Syracuse University. Her research situates Black feminist theories and sociology as critical pedagogical praxis that speaks to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in formal educational spaces, specifically for Black girls and women. Read more...
