Joshua R Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 237267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua R Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua R |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8037-5360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A complicated source
The commentary discusses the opportunities and challenges of using epitaphs on gravestones as a source for historical sociolinguistics based on the studies by Vajta, Kolehmainen and Wessman, Liebscher and Stolberg, Brown, and Kühl in the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (2026) all focusing on gravestones in multilingual communities. The commentary points out the paradoxical nature of gravestones shaped in the dichotomies of past and present…
Gravestones of multilingual communities as sources for historical sociolinguistics
This introduction to the special issue situates cemeteries as culturally and linguistically rich “heterotopias” that negotiate societal values, identities, and power structures. It positions gravestones, grave and cemetery layouts, and funerary practices as dynamic expressions of social norms, revealing how communities construct meaning through these elements. Particular attention is given to multilingual contexts, where gravestones serve as disc…
Pennsylvania Dutch cemeteries as multilingual landscapes
As sacred spaces in human consciousness, cemeteries preserve and communicate individual and collective histories that are reflective of the societies and cultures in which we find ourselves. Cemeteries document, memorialize, and provide space for members of a society and culture in virtual perpetuity. As a result, a cemetery’s gravestones constitute an integral part of a society’s language ecology, both as a display of language within its public …
What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert–Public Cleavages
Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework…
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs
Conditioning on variables affected by treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal effects. Although this suggests that researchers should measure potential moderators before administering the treatment in an experiment, doing so may also bias causal effect estimation if the covariate measurement primes respondents to react differently to the treatment. This paper formally analyzes this trade-off between post-treatment and prim…
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters
Antiracist Language Teaching with Afro-Latin American Author Presentations
Antiracist Language Teaching with Afro-Latin American Author Presentations Jacob Brown In scholarship on language pedagogy, there is growing momentum for teaching Afrodescendant literature in language classrooms. Various teachers and scholars of languages and literatures have responded to the need for greater racial inclusion in language curricula by exploring approaches to teaching Afro-Hispanic literary texts (Villegas Rogers 2006; Maddox 2021;…
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation
Did the 2008 United States presidential election produce stronger future mobilization for Blacks than non-Blacks? First-time voting influences long-term political behavior, but do minority voters see the most powerful effects when the formative election is tied to their group's political empowerment? I test this hypothesis in the context of the election of the first Black president in United States history, using voting eligibility discontinuitie…
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods
Granular geographic data present new opportunities to understand how neighborhoods are formed, and how they influence politics. At the same time, the inherent subjectivity of neighborhoods creates methodological challenges in measuring and modeling them. We develop an open-source survey instrument that allows respondents to draw their neighborhoods on a map. We also propose a statistical model to analyze how the characteristics of respondents and…
C. Richard Beam (1925–2018): In Memoriam
In late 1924, a young schoolteacher
Language Maintenance among the Hutterites
Este estudo objetivou investigar a sobrecarga emocional e a percepção da própria qualidade de vida em mães de crianças com Erros Inatos do Metabolismo (EIM). Participaram 21 mães de crianças com EIM, com comprometimento neurológico grave, de ambos os sexos, com idade até dez anos. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio dos instrumentos WHOQOL-Bref e Burden Interview. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente e comparados. Foi observado que os …
Resisting Broken Windows: The Effect of Neighborhood Disorder on Political Behavior
Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate
How does an individual's criminal record shape interactions with the state and society? This article presents evidence from a nationwide field experiment in the United States, which shows that prospective applicants with criminal records are about 5 percentage points less likely to receive information from college admission offices. However, this bias does not extend to race: there is no difference in response rates to Black and White applicants.…
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought
Transcendence and Substance in Early Chinese Thought offers a new account of the history of early Chinese philosophy, as well as a reconsideration of current understandings of early Chinese thought, by focussing on transcendence and substance. These two concepts are sometimes seen as being at odds with naturalist approaches to philosophy. By offering a robust account of early Chinese thought, Alexus McLeod and Joshua R. Brown argue that in fact n…
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters
Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism
Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism
Historical heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below
Recent research into heritage languages has shown the results of language contact structurally and socially. This work is almost exclusively synchronic. This special issue presents five papers that look at the historical record of language contact in migration contexts. In using ego-documents written by everyday users of the languages in contact, we uncover the usefulness of incorporating historical sociolinguistic analysis into heritage language…
Civil War writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch
For eighteenth and nineteenth century Pennsylvania Dutch speakers, a variety of German was the language of their books, their newspapers, and their schools. Being far from the European homeland created a hegemonic shift in the linguistic lives of these early German Americans; they were adopting an American regional identity. Along with their shift in identities and in linguistic hegemony, structural aspects of the languages they used also changed…
Writing about Amish women and singlehood
This manuscript explores the various ways that Amish society negotiates singlehood for women. Through a narrative analysis of a decade of writings by singles and about singlehood in an Amish youth magazine, the writings show similarities to and differences from mainstream society’s and other Christian approaches to singlehood. The manuscript argues that even in a marriage- and procreation-oriented religious society, singlehood is complex, being b…
Royal Moral Influence: Configuring Christ's Kingship and Christian Morality through Mèngzǐ 孟子and Aquinas
This article develops a comparative account of Christ's kingship in order to articulate this doctrine's relevance for the contemporary context. Drawing upon the political philosophy of the early Confucian Mengzi and Aquinas' reading of Christ's headship, I suggest that Christ's kingship be understood in terms of royal moral influence, meaning that Christ the King is the unique ground of the Christian moral life
Heritage Languages in North America: Formal Linguistic Approaches
Heritage Somali and Identity in Rural Wisconsin
Wisconsin has a long history of heritage language use, which continues to the present. Latinos, Hmong, and Somalis are groups, which now call Wisconsin home. As new generations of American-born individuals emerge, more removed from immigrant culture, the vitality of the language as a heritage language may weaken. This study examines the vitality of Somali as a heritage language in Barron, Wisconsin. It investigates the negotiation of identities i…
Heritage Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters
No Homo
The phrase no homo arose in hip-hop lyrics of the 1990s as a discourse interjection to negate supposed sexual and gender transgressions. Today the phrase has gained currency beyond hip-hop culture and pervades racial and gender continua. As a result, its increasing prevalence in mainstream speech has caused critics to deplore no homo as outright homophobia. This article describes the origins and scope of no homo. Instead of easily identifying the…
Weakening Strong Black Political Empowerment: Implications from Atlanta’s 2009 Mayoral Election
Atlanta is perhaps the city with the greatest degree of black political empowerment (BPE) in the United States. Yet in 2009 a relatively weak white mayoral candidate nearly won the general and runoff elections over a field of stronger black candidates. Why? Treating Atlanta as a prototypical case, the article examines factors that undermine the capacity of blacks to retain control of mayoralties in strong BPE cities, with an emphasis on disruptio…
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods
Granular geographic data present new opportunities to understand how neighborhoods are formed, and how they influence politics. At the same time, the inherent subjectivity of neighborhoods creates methodological challenges in measuring and modeling them. We develop an open-source survey instrument that allows respondents to draw their neighborhoods on a map. We also propose a statistical model to analyze how the characteristics of respondents and…
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs
Conditioning on variables affected by treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal effects. Although this suggests that researchers should measure potential moderators before administering the treatment in an experiment, doing so may also bias causal effect estimation if the covariate measurement primes respondents to react differently to the treatment. This paper formally analyzes this trade-off between post-treatment and prim…
Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate
How does an individual's criminal record shape interactions with the state and society? This article presents evidence from a nationwide field experiment in the United States, which shows that prospective applicants with criminal records are about 5 percentage points less likely to receive information from college admission offices. However, this bias does not extend to race: there is no difference in response rates to Black and White applicants.…
Heritage Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches
Dutchified English on Broadway
With the opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the 1940s, those out-of-staters curious about the Pennsylvania Dutch received ready access to Lancaster County and America's oldest Amish community for the first time. Since then, tourism has skyrocketed, drawing five million visitors annually, and has become an industry with profiteers in both secular and religious sectarian groups. The draw for most tourists is to experience the Other, so those p…
Heritage Languages in North America: Formal Linguistic Approaches
No Homo
The phrase no homo arose in hip-hop lyrics of the 1990s as a discourse interjection to negate supposed sexual and gender transgressions. Today the phrase has gained currency beyond hip-hop culture and pervades racial and gender continua. As a result, its increasing prevalence in mainstream speech has caused critics to deplore no homo as outright homophobia. This article describes the origins and scope of no homo. Instead of easily identifying the…
Weakening Strong Black Political Empowerment: Implications from Atlanta’s 2009 Mayoral Election
Atlanta is perhaps the city with the greatest degree of black political empowerment (BPE) in the United States. Yet in 2009 a relatively weak white mayoral candidate nearly won the general and runoff elections over a field of stronger black candidates. Why? Treating Atlanta as a prototypical case, the article examines factors that undermine the capacity of blacks to retain control of mayoralties in strong BPE cities, with an emphasis on disruptio…
Dutchified English on Broadway
With the opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the 1940s, those out-of-staters curious about the Pennsylvania Dutch received ready access to Lancaster County and America's oldest Amish community for the first time. Since then, tourism has skyrocketed, drawing five million visitors annually, and has become an industry with profiteers in both secular and religious sectarian groups. The draw for most tourists is to experience the Other, so those p…
Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Royal Moral Influence: Configuring Christ's Kingship and Christian Morality through Mèngzǐ 孟子and Aquinas
This article develops a comparative account of Christ's kingship in order to articulate this doctrine's relevance for the contemporary context. Drawing upon the political philosophy of the early Confucian Mengzi and Aquinas' reading of Christ's headship, I suggest that Christ's kingship be understood in terms of royal moral influence, meaning that Christ the King is the unique ground of the Christian moral life
Heritage Languages in North America: Formal Linguistic Approaches
Heritage Somali and Identity in Rural Wisconsin
Wisconsin has a long history of heritage language use, which continues to the present. Latinos, Hmong, and Somalis are groups, which now call Wisconsin home. As new generations of American-born individuals emerge, more removed from immigrant culture, the vitality of the language as a heritage language may weaken. This study examines the vitality of Somali as a heritage language in Barron, Wisconsin. It investigates the negotiation of identities i…
Heritage Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches
Historical heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below
Recent research into heritage languages has shown the results of language contact structurally and socially. This work is almost exclusively synchronic. This special issue presents five papers that look at the historical record of language contact in migration contexts. In using ego-documents written by everyday users of the languages in contact, we uncover the usefulness of incorporating historical sociolinguistic analysis into heritage language…
Civil War writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch
For eighteenth and nineteenth century Pennsylvania Dutch speakers, a variety of German was the language of their books, their newspapers, and their schools. Being far from the European homeland created a hegemonic shift in the linguistic lives of these early German Americans; they were adopting an American regional identity. Along with their shift in identities and in linguistic hegemony, structural aspects of the languages they used also changed…
Writing about Amish women and singlehood
This manuscript explores the various ways that Amish society negotiates singlehood for women. Through a narrative analysis of a decade of writings by singles and about singlehood in an Amish youth magazine, the writings show similarities to and differences from mainstream society’s and other Christian approaches to singlehood. The manuscript argues that even in a marriage- and procreation-oriented religious society, singlehood is complex, being b…
Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism
Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought
Transcendence and Substance in Early Chinese Thought offers a new account of the history of early Chinese philosophy, as well as a reconsideration of current understandings of early Chinese thought, by focussing on transcendence and substance. These two concepts are sometimes seen as being at odds with naturalist approaches to philosophy. By offering a robust account of early Chinese thought, Alexus McLeod and Joshua R. Brown argue that in fact n…
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters
C. Richard Beam (1925–2018): In Memoriam
In late 1924, a young schoolteacher
Language Maintenance among the Hutterites
Este estudo objetivou investigar a sobrecarga emocional e a percepção da própria qualidade de vida em mães de crianças com Erros Inatos do Metabolismo (EIM). Participaram 21 mães de crianças com EIM, com comprometimento neurológico grave, de ambos os sexos, com idade até dez anos. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio dos instrumentos WHOQOL-Bref e Burden Interview. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente e comparados. Foi observado que os …
Resisting Broken Windows: The Effect of Neighborhood Disorder on Political Behavior
Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate
How does an individual's criminal record shape interactions with the state and society? This article presents evidence from a nationwide field experiment in the United States, which shows that prospective applicants with criminal records are about 5 percentage points less likely to receive information from college admission offices. However, this bias does not extend to race: there is no difference in response rates to Black and White applicants.…
Antiracist Language Teaching with Afro-Latin American Author Presentations
Antiracist Language Teaching with Afro-Latin American Author Presentations Jacob Brown In scholarship on language pedagogy, there is growing momentum for teaching Afrodescendant literature in language classrooms. Various teachers and scholars of languages and literatures have responded to the need for greater racial inclusion in language curricula by exploring approaches to teaching Afro-Hispanic literary texts (Villegas Rogers 2006; Maddox 2021;…
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation
Did the 2008 United States presidential election produce stronger future mobilization for Blacks than non-Blacks? First-time voting influences long-term political behavior, but do minority voters see the most powerful effects when the formative election is tied to their group's political empowerment? I test this hypothesis in the context of the election of the first Black president in United States history, using voting eligibility discontinuitie…
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods
Granular geographic data present new opportunities to understand how neighborhoods are formed, and how they influence politics. At the same time, the inherent subjectivity of neighborhoods creates methodological challenges in measuring and modeling them. We develop an open-source survey instrument that allows respondents to draw their neighborhoods on a map. We also propose a statistical model to analyze how the characteristics of respondents and…
What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert–Public Cleavages
Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework…
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs
Conditioning on variables affected by treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal effects. Although this suggests that researchers should measure potential moderators before administering the treatment in an experiment, doing so may also bias causal effect estimation if the covariate measurement primes respondents to react differently to the treatment. This paper formally analyzes this trade-off between post-treatment and prim…
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