Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Joshua Babcock is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and affiliate faculty in Linguistics, Public Humanities, Environmental Studies, and the Southeast Asian Studies Initiative at Brown University. He is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on colonial images and the desires that both sustain and disrupt them. His work has appeared in American Anthropologist, the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Society and Space, Language and Communication, Signs and Society, the Journal of Sociolinguistics, MediaTropes, and others. He is Communications Director for the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association and a Contributing Editor of Anthropology News. During his Cogut fellowship, he will be completing his first book project, Image and the Total Utopia: Desiring Distinction in Multiracial, Multilingual Singapore.