Adam Bradford

Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Idaho State University

Adam Bradford is interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Idaho State University.  Prior to his current role, he served as dean of the Graduate School, overseeing the expansion of the institution’s portfolio of graduate programming, double digit enrollment growth, and significant increases in graduate student funding support. Prior to joining ISU, Bradford served as associate dean of graduate studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University, as well as the founding director of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, department head for the Department of Philosophy, director of the Ph.D. program in comparative studies and associate chair of the Department of English. Bradford researches and teaches 19th-century American literature and culture. He won the 2018 Gargano Award for work on Edgar Allan Poe.