James Robert Rush is an American historian and professor of history at Arizona State University.
As a consultant, Rush worked with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Asia Society, and El Colegio de México.
[1] Rush's scholarship addresses issues of colonialism and religion in Indonesia during the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
In connection with this project, Rush conducted interviews with more than one hundred awardees, and edited seven volumes of biographical essays.
[2] Rush's own essays in the Ramon Magsaysay Award series include Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Abdurrahman Wahid, Bienvenido Lumbera, Ravi Shankar, Veditantirige Ediriwira Sarachchandra, and Fei Xiaotong.