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; Listening to Pedagogy and Improvisations in Jazz History.” Bush began his doctoral training in UC Santa Cruz’s History of Consciousness program and received his BA at Columbia University.
Adam is also the founding Director of Curriculum of College Unbound: a college degree program in Providence, RI working to contend with retention rates for first generation college students by equally incorporating voices outside of the academy in the teaching and evaluation of its student body in an outcomes-based program that values civic engagement, incorporates internship work, and productively integrates the epistemology of daily life. Bush is also the chair of the K-16 Collaboration Committee of the American Studies Association and is the board chair of the Studio for Southern California History (www.socalstudio.org) in Los Angeles.
