Joshua Brown

Biographic Data

ID3629401
NAMEJoshua Brown
GIVEN NAMESJoshua
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN J
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0001-8874-874X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • A complicated source

    Open AccessSuzanne Aalberse, Joshua R Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2026

    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

    Open AccessKaroline Kühl, Joshua R Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2026

    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

    Open AccessJoshua R Brown, Joshua BrownARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2026

    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 …

  • Never ask, never apologise: Politeness strategies in Italian merchant letters between London, Milan, Florence, 1397–1401

    Open AccessJoshua Brown, Josh BrownARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2026References: 7

    This paper details two case-studies in which politeness strategies are conveyed through practices of mitigation in Italian merchant letters during the Renaissance. The first case-study concerns the successful negotiation of trade practices between Italian merchants working in London with the “merchant of Prato”, Francesco di Marco Datini. The second case-study looks at the collaboration between local merchants from Milan and the Datini merchants …

  • Artificial Intelligence, Circular Economy, and Green Finance: Policy Insights From the G7 Economies

    Open AccessRixin Song, Xinrui Ma et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2026References: 6

    The goal of sustainable development in sophisticated economies is to incorporate financial, technological, and institutional processes that enhance low‐carbon changes as well as maintain systemic sustainability. This paper examines trends in the role of green finance in the G7 based on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), macro‐financial risks, effectiveness of governance, geopolitical instability, the performance of environmental technol…

  • Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective

    Open AccessJoshua BrownARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2024

    The paper considers historical lingua francas and standard language ideology from the framework of ‘language history from below’. Although some work has been devoted to mixed forms of language in studies of standardisation, little attention has been paid to lingua francas. This paper focusses on a historical dictionary – the Dictionnaire de la langue franque of 1830 – to argue that historical data can be considered as evidence ‘from below’ for th…

  • Aston Gonzalez. Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

    Open AccessJoshua BrownARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Aston Gonzalez. Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Get access Aston Gonzalez. Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 307. Paper $32.50. Joshua Brown Joshua Brown City University of New York, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…

  • Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon

    Joshua Brown, Joshua D BrownARTICLEThe Journal of the Civil War Era2022

    Reviewed by: Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon Joshua Brown (bio) Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana. By Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. Pp. 256. Paper, $19.95.) On March 18, 1873, the Louisiana state legislature passed Act 57, the …

  • Social identity processes predicting post‐election 2020 ideological extremism

    Open AccessAn Le, Joshua Brown et al.ARTICLEAnalyses of Social Issues and…2022

    The 2020 National Election seemed to play a role in the rise of political extremism in the United States. The present study investigates whether the interaction between changes in political identification and support for political leaders (Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden) from pre‐ to post‐election was associated with ideological extremism among Republicans and Democrats. We collected responses using Amazon Mechanical Turk from U.S. residents ( N = 24…

  • Jama Health Forum Peer Reviewers in 2021

    Open AccessJason Jean, Marie Abraham et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

  • I Felt Better When I Moved Into My Own Place”: Needs and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in Rapid Rehousing

    Open AccessLeila Wood, Rachel Voth Schrag et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2022References: 8

    Accessing stable housing is a basic need for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors, and rapid rehousing programs are a critical way to address homelessness. However, little is known about survivor experiences, needs, and outcomes in rapid rehousing services within IPV agencies. This study uses an exploratory approach to understand the needs and experiences of 31 survivors using vouchers facilitated by an IPV program in the U.S. Southwest. The…

  • Towards the elaboration of a diastratic model in historical analyses of koineization

    Joshua BrownARTICLESociolinguistic Studies2021References: 6

    The paper argues for further development of models of koineization in a historical perspective. The four processes inherent in koineization reported in Britain (2012a) are taken as a starting point to show how the question of discerning these phenomena in the past is inherently problematic, but not impossible. After discussing some issues in identifying these processes in a medieval context, the paper moves to previous analyses of diastratic vari…

  • Women's Literacy in a Late Medieval Religious Community: Organisation and Memorialisation at Santa Marta in Milan, 1405–1454

    Open AccessJoshua BrownARTICLEJournal of Religious History2021

    This article argues for literacy as a form of memorialisation in female religious organisations in late medieval Italy. Using freshly discovered archival materials from the Archivio di Stato in Milan, focus is placed on organisation and memorialisation in one particular community, the women of Santa Marta during the period 1405–1454. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, new communities formed who wished to organise according to their own p…

  • Language history from below: Standardization and Koineization in Renaissance Italy

    Joshua Brown, Josh BrownARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2020

    The paper returns to the complex question of the sociolinguistic history of Italy during the Renaissance. The traditional historiography of the Italian language adopts a teleological perspective, often defining the codification of Italian in 1525 with the publication of Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua . This approach means that less attention has been devoted to other processes of language change, as well as less focus on areas outside T…

  • Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir

    Joshua BrownARTICLEEthnomusicology2020

  • Passione Trivulziana. Armonia evangelica volgarizzata in milanese antico. Edizione critica e commentata, analisi linguistica e glossario

    Joshua Brown, Josh BrownARTICLEItalian Studies2018

  • Stress and Release: Case Studies of Teacher Resilience Following a Mindfulness-Based Intervention

    Deborah L Schussler, Anna DeWeese et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Education2018Cited by: 2References: 51

    This qualitative collective case study investigates elementary teachers’ experience with stress and the mechanisms of change related to developing resilience following a mindfulness-based intervention, Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE). Results suggest that the amount of stress teachers experience is less important than how they conceptualize their stress. Teachers who developed resilience exercised mindful awareness and no…

  • A ri K elman and J onathan F etter -V orm . Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

    Open AccessJoshua BrownARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Graphic histories of the American Civil War have been published since the Golden Age of Comic Books, most prominently during the early 1950s with the now legendary EC Comics series Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, both of which produced special issues devoted to grim, anti-war-tinged accounts of major battles. The war’s one-hundredth anniversary prompted at least one graphic overview, Classics Illustrated’s The War between the States (1961)…

  • The Banks are Our Stages: Flo6x8 and Flamenco Performance as Protest in Southern Spain

    Joshua BrownARTICLEPopular Music & Society2018References: 6

    In May 2011, a widespread protest movement known as 15M emerged in Spain, emphasizing the sustained and purposeful occupation of public spaces. Based in Seville, the performance collective Flo6x8 protests financial and political malfeasance in Spain by converting corporate banks into flamenco performance and recording spaces. This article explores how Flo6x8 generates new physical and conceptual spaces for political expression and protest in Spai…

  • Testimonianze di una precoce toscanizzazione nelle lettere commerciali del mercante milanese Francesco Tanso (?–1398), Archivio Datini, Prato

    Open AccessJoshua Brown, Josh BrownARTICLEForum Italicum A Journal of…2015Cited by: 1References: 9

    La conoscenza del toscano durante il Trecento e il Quattrocento avveniva non solo attraverso la lettura delle Tre Corone e tramite la circolazione di poeti, notai, podestà, giudici e ambasciatori, ma anche a causa della mobilità geografica dei mercanti, i quali, nelle loro frequenti comunicazioni, mettevano in contatto volgari diversi. Questo articolo vuole dimostrare che un simile processo di toscanizzazione avveniva, già un mezzo secolo prima, …

  • Language Variation in Fifteenth- Century Milan: Evidence of Koineization in the Letters (1397–1402) of the Milanese Merchant Giovanni da Pessano

    Joshua BrownARTICLEItalian Studies2013

    The main tendency characterizing the evolution of the vernacular in Lombardy during the late Middle Ages is the formation of a koinè. At the same time, histories of the vernacular in Lombardy have identified texts that have maintained a strong adherence to local forms of language whilst koineization was in progress. This paper considers the northern linguistic elements in the letters (1397–1402) of the Milanese merchant Giovanni da Pessano and ar…

  • The September 11 Digital Archive

    Stephen Brier, Joshua BrownARTICLERadical History Review2011Cited by: 1

    This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social Hi…

  • The First Eight Years of Life during Wartime, 2003 - 2011

    Joshua Brown, Andor SkotnesARTICLERadical History Review2011

    Research Article| September 01 2011 The First Eight Years of Life during Wartime, 2003 – 2011 Joshua Brown; Joshua Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Andor Skotnes Andor Skotnes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (111): 233–255. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1268848 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…

  • Cartoon

    Joshua BrownARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2010

    Research Article| May 01 2010 Cartoon Josh Brown Josh Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (2): 7. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-093 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Josh Brown; Cartoon. Labor 1 May 2010; 7 (2): 7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-093 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWork…

  • Cartoon

    Joshua BrownARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2009

    Research Article| December 01 2009 Cartoon Joshua Brown Joshua Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2009) 6 (4): 9. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Brown; Cartoon. Labor 1 December 2009; 6 (4): 9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-027 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers…