Joshua Price PhD

Dr. Joshua Price is an anthropologist who writes on language, race and gender violence. His book Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Language in the Americas (2023) looks at the role of translators and translation in the colonization of the Americas. His ethnographic, participatory research on the harm of incarceration served as the basis for his books Prison and Social Death (2015) and Structural Violence (2012), and a collection he coedited on the afterlives of incarceration. He also translates Latin American political and social philosophy to English: his translation (with María Constanza Guzmán) of Heidegger´s Shadow by José Pablo Feinmann was published in 2016 (Texas Tech). He translated (with María Lugones) Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América by Rodolfo Kusch (Duke, 2010). He is currently translating La ceiba de la memoria, by Roberto Burgos Cantor, which traces the history of slavery on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Josh has been visiting scholar at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and in Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto; he has held fellowships at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin), the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University, and served as a Fulbright specialist at the Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia).