Vita
Education
Ph.D., 2011
German with a concentration in Applied Linguistics and minor in Linguistics
"Religious Identity and Language Shift among the Amish-Mennonites in Kishacoquillas Valley, Pennsylvania"
Committee members: B. Richard Page (chair), Carrie N. Jackson, Michael T. Putnam, John Lipski
The Pennsylvania State University
B.A. magna cum laude, 2004
German (major), Russian (minor), Latin (minor)
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
German with a concentration in Applied Linguistics and minor in Linguistics
"Religious Identity and Language Shift among the Amish-Mennonites in Kishacoquillas Valley, Pennsylvania"
Committee members: B. Richard Page (chair), Carrie N. Jackson, Michael T. Putnam, John Lipski
The Pennsylvania State University
B.A. magna cum laude, 2004
German (major), Russian (minor), Latin (minor)
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
Appointments
- Associate professor of German (tenured), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2016-present
- Assistant professor of German (tenure-track), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2011-2016
- Affiliate faculty in Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Honors / Awards / Fellowships / Grants
2020-21 Academic year Research Experiences for Undergraduates, "Preserving Heritage Language Ego-Documents," $3600
2020 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, "Wisconsin's Heritage Language Ego-Documents," $7050
2019 Kreider Fellow, Elizabethtown College
2019 University Research and Creative Activities Grant Program, $2950
2018-19 Academic year Research Experiences for Undergraduates, $2750 and $2800
2018 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $6900
2017-18 Academic year Research Experiences for Undergraduates, $2900
2017 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, $7500
2016 Joseph Horner Fellow, German Historical Institute
2016 International Fellows Program Grant, $12690
2015 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $4300
2014 German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award (three awarded annually by the American Association of Teachers of German)
2014 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $3848
2013 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $4300
2004 Irene Seadle Award for Excellence in German Studies
2003 Dominick J. and Frances M. Fanani Award for the Humanities
2020 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, "Wisconsin's Heritage Language Ego-Documents," $7050
2019 Kreider Fellow, Elizabethtown College
2019 University Research and Creative Activities Grant Program, $2950
2018-19 Academic year Research Experiences for Undergraduates, $2750 and $2800
2018 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $6900
2017-18 Academic year Research Experiences for Undergraduates, $2900
2017 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, $7500
2016 Joseph Horner Fellow, German Historical Institute
2016 International Fellows Program Grant, $12690
2015 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $4300
2014 German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award (three awarded annually by the American Association of Teachers of German)
2014 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $3848
2013 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant, $4300
2004 Irene Seadle Award for Excellence in German Studies
2003 Dominick J. and Frances M. Fanani Award for the Humanities
Media
2019 Brown, Joshua R., and Norah Airth-Kindree. Understanding Amish Culture and Healthcare. The Ideas Network, Wisconsin Public Radio.
Scholarly Work
I. Books and Edited Volumes
2019 Brown, Joshua R., ed. Heritage Language Ego-documents: From Home, From Away, and From Below. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2).
2019 Biers, Kelly, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2018 Bousquette, Joshua, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Heritage and Immigrant Languages in the Americas: Formal Linguistic Approaches. Journal of Language Contact 11 (3).
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Joshua Bousquette, eds. Heritage and Immigrant Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches. Journal of Language Contact 11 (2).
2017 Bronner, Simon J., and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2009 [2017] Brown, Joshua R., and Douglas J. Madenford. Schwetz mol Deitsch: An Introductory Pennsylvania Dutch Course [2nd edition]. Masthof Press.
2006 Brown, Joshua R., and Leroy T. Hopkins, eds. "Preserving Heritage: Festschrift for C. Richard Beam." Supplemental issue, Yearbook of German-American Studies 2.
2005 Beam, C. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. The Comprehensive Pennsylvania German Dictionary: Volume 2 - B. Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.
2004 Beam, C. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. The Comprehensive Pennsylvania German Dictionary: Volume 1 - A. Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.
2019 Biers, Kelly, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2018 Bousquette, Joshua, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Heritage and Immigrant Languages in the Americas: Formal Linguistic Approaches. Journal of Language Contact 11 (3).
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Joshua Bousquette, eds. Heritage and Immigrant Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches. Journal of Language Contact 11 (2).
2017 Bronner, Simon J., and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2009 [2017] Brown, Joshua R., and Douglas J. Madenford. Schwetz mol Deitsch: An Introductory Pennsylvania Dutch Course [2nd edition]. Masthof Press.
2006 Brown, Joshua R., and Leroy T. Hopkins, eds. "Preserving Heritage: Festschrift for C. Richard Beam." Supplemental issue, Yearbook of German-American Studies 2.
2005 Beam, C. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. The Comprehensive Pennsylvania German Dictionary: Volume 2 - B. Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.
2004 Beam, C. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. The Comprehensive Pennsylvania German Dictionary: Volume 1 - A. Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.
II. Refereed Journal Articles
To appear Brown, Joshua, Tristan Devick, and Connor Zielinski. "A Culturally Relevant Approach to Food Customs in the German Curriculum." Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German.
2020 Brown, Joshua R. "Writing about Amish Women and Singlehood." Culture and Religion. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2020.1828958
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Somali Refugees and Their Urban and Non-urban Linguistic Landscapes." Critical Multilingualism Studies 7 (3): 77-91.
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Civil War Writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2).
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "The Changing Sociolinguistic Identities of the Beachy Amish-Mennonites in Big Valley, Pennsylvania." Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 7 (1): 19-31.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Benjamin Carpenter. "Heritage Somali and Identity in Barron, Wisconsin." Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 348-371.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Language Maintenance among the Hutterites." Yearbook of German-American Studies 52: 151-168.
2015 Brown, Joshua R. "Dutchified English on Broadway." American Speech 90 (3): 321-346.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. "Making Study Abroad Meaningful, Intentional, Experiential, and Transformative." Language Educator 9 (4): 24-6.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. "An Uplifting Experience: A Course Sequence Designed to Facilitate Proficiency Development." Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 47 (1): 49-55.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., and Beate Brunow. "Portfolio Assessment in College-level Business German Courses." German as a Foreign Language 1: 93-117.
2011 Brown, Joshua R. "No Homo." Journal of Homosexuality 58 (3): 299-314.
2006 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. "The Big Valley oral History Project: Language Attitudes Toward Pennsylvania German in Big Valley." Yearbook of German-American Studies 41: 131-146.
2020 Brown, Joshua R. "Writing about Amish Women and Singlehood." Culture and Religion. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2020.1828958
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Somali Refugees and Their Urban and Non-urban Linguistic Landscapes." Critical Multilingualism Studies 7 (3): 77-91.
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Civil War Writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2).
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "The Changing Sociolinguistic Identities of the Beachy Amish-Mennonites in Big Valley, Pennsylvania." Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 7 (1): 19-31.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Benjamin Carpenter. "Heritage Somali and Identity in Barron, Wisconsin." Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 348-371.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Language Maintenance among the Hutterites." Yearbook of German-American Studies 52: 151-168.
2015 Brown, Joshua R. "Dutchified English on Broadway." American Speech 90 (3): 321-346.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. "Making Study Abroad Meaningful, Intentional, Experiential, and Transformative." Language Educator 9 (4): 24-6.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. "An Uplifting Experience: A Course Sequence Designed to Facilitate Proficiency Development." Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 47 (1): 49-55.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., and Beate Brunow. "Portfolio Assessment in College-level Business German Courses." German as a Foreign Language 1: 93-117.
2011 Brown, Joshua R. "No Homo." Journal of Homosexuality 58 (3): 299-314.
2006 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. "The Big Valley oral History Project: Language Attitudes Toward Pennsylvania German in Big Valley." Yearbook of German-American Studies 41: 131-146.
III. Chapters and Essays (invited/refereed)
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Somalis in Wisconsin." Wisconsin Englishes Project.
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2).
2019 Biers, Kelly, Joshua R. Brown, Janne Bondi Johannessen, and Michael T. Putnam. "Preface." In Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9), edited by Kelly Biers and Joshua R. Brown, v-vii. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2019 Brown, Joshua R., and Rachyl Hietpas. "Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin." In Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9), edited by Kelly Biers and Joshua R. Brown, 72-82. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2018 Bousquette, Joshua, and Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Languages in North America: Formal Linguistic Approaches." Journal of Language Contact 11 (3): 373-378.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Joshua Bousquette. "Heritage Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches." Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 201-207.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "C. Richard Beam (1925-2018): In Memoriam." Yearbook of German-American Studies 52.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Gendered Stories, Advice, and Narrative Intimacy in Amish Young Adult Literature." In Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Readings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature, edited by Tricia Clasen and Holly Hassel, 87-101. Routledge.
2017 Bronner, Simon J., and Joshua R. Brown. "Pennsylvania German Studies." In Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, edited by Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, 1-17. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2017 Johnson-Weiner, Karen M., and Joshua R. Brown. "The Amish." In Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, edited by Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, 148-163. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2016 Brown, Joshua R. "American Literary Regionalism and the Authenticity of Place: Reading Rosanna." Center for Mennonite Writing Journal 8 (1).
2015 Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. "Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. In German Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change, edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joseph C. Salmons, 135-160. John Benjamins.
2010 Brown, Joshua R. "An Amish Mortuary Ritual at the Intersection of Cultural Anthropology and Lexicography." Supplemental issue, Yearbook of German-American Studies 3: 85-100.
2019 Brown, Joshua R. "Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2).
2019 Biers, Kelly, Joshua R. Brown, Janne Bondi Johannessen, and Michael T. Putnam. "Preface." In Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9), edited by Kelly Biers and Joshua R. Brown, v-vii. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2019 Brown, Joshua R., and Rachyl Hietpas. "Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin." In Selected Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 9), edited by Kelly Biers and Joshua R. Brown, 72-82. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2018 Bousquette, Joshua, and Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Languages in North America: Formal Linguistic Approaches." Journal of Language Contact 11 (3): 373-378.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Joshua Bousquette. "Heritage Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches." Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 201-207.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "C. Richard Beam (1925-2018): In Memoriam." Yearbook of German-American Studies 52.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Gendered Stories, Advice, and Narrative Intimacy in Amish Young Adult Literature." In Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Readings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature, edited by Tricia Clasen and Holly Hassel, 87-101. Routledge.
2017 Bronner, Simon J., and Joshua R. Brown. "Pennsylvania German Studies." In Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, edited by Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, 1-17. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2017 Johnson-Weiner, Karen M., and Joshua R. Brown. "The Amish." In Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, edited by Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, 148-163. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2016 Brown, Joshua R. "American Literary Regionalism and the Authenticity of Place: Reading Rosanna." Center for Mennonite Writing Journal 8 (1).
2015 Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. "Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. In German Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change, edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joseph C. Salmons, 135-160. John Benjamins.
2010 Brown, Joshua R. "An Amish Mortuary Ritual at the Intersection of Cultural Anthropology and Lexicography." Supplemental issue, Yearbook of German-American Studies 3: 85-100.
IV. Editorship of Literary Works
2016 Brown, Joshua R., ed. On Air with Will Warickelholz, 2 vols. Masthof Press.
2012 Pattee, Fred Lewis. The House of the Black Ring, edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Joshua R. Brown. Penn State University Press.
2009 Yoder, Joseph W. Rosanna of the Amish: The Restored Text, edited by Joshua R. Brown and Julia Spicher Kasdorf. Herald Press.
2006 Fritsch, Peter V. Der Haahne Greht and Other Poems, edited by Joshua R. Brown. Masthof.
2006 Deutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis. Mit Pennsifaanisch Deitsch Darich's Yaahr: A Pennsylvania German Reader, edited by Michael Werner, Butch Reigart, Joshua R. Brown, Alice B. Spayd, Helmut Schmahl, Frank Kessler, and Walter Sauer. Edition Tintenfass.
2012 Pattee, Fred Lewis. The House of the Black Ring, edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Joshua R. Brown. Penn State University Press.
2009 Yoder, Joseph W. Rosanna of the Amish: The Restored Text, edited by Joshua R. Brown and Julia Spicher Kasdorf. Herald Press.
2006 Fritsch, Peter V. Der Haahne Greht and Other Poems, edited by Joshua R. Brown. Masthof.
2006 Deutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis. Mit Pennsifaanisch Deitsch Darich's Yaahr: A Pennsylvania German Reader, edited by Michael Werner, Butch Reigart, Joshua R. Brown, Alice B. Spayd, Helmut Schmahl, Frank Kessler, and Walter Sauer. Edition Tintenfass.
V. Reviews
2018 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Serious Nonsense: Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage, by William W. Donner. Western Folklore 77 (2).
2017 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Place Names of Wisconsin, by Edward Callary. Yearbook of German-American Studies 52: 322-23.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language, by Mark L. Louden. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29 (2): 195-99.
2012 Brown, Joshua R. “Diversity Among the Anabaptists,” review essay of New York Amish, by Karen Johnson-Weiner and The Hutterites in North America, by Rod Janzen and Max Stanton. Journal of Culture & Agriculture 34 (1): 93-5.
2011 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, edited by Alessandro Duranti. Language in Society 40 (2): 253-254.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Mittelpunkt: Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Fortgeschrittene, Level C1, by Albert Daniels et al. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 42 (2): 203-204.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Mittelpunkt: Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Fortgeschrittene, Level B2, by Albert Daniels et al. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 42 (2): 201-203.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook, by Anna Miell and Heiner Schenke. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 42 (1): 95
2007 Brown, Joshua R. Conference report, “Pennsylvania German Workshop, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13.” H-GAGCS.
2006 Brown, Joshua R. Book notice, “C. Richard Beam Honored.” Northeastern Anthropological Association Newsletter 28 (3): 3,5.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Place Names of Wisconsin, by Edward Callary. Yearbook of German-American Studies 52: 322-23.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language, by Mark L. Louden. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29 (2): 195-99.
2012 Brown, Joshua R. “Diversity Among the Anabaptists,” review essay of New York Amish, by Karen Johnson-Weiner and The Hutterites in North America, by Rod Janzen and Max Stanton. Journal of Culture & Agriculture 34 (1): 93-5.
2011 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, edited by Alessandro Duranti. Language in Society 40 (2): 253-254.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Mittelpunkt: Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Fortgeschrittene, Level C1, by Albert Daniels et al. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 42 (2): 203-204.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Mittelpunkt: Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Fortgeschrittene, Level B2, by Albert Daniels et al. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 42 (2): 201-203.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. Review of Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook, by Anna Miell and Heiner Schenke. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 42 (1): 95
2007 Brown, Joshua R. Conference report, “Pennsylvania German Workshop, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13.” H-GAGCS.
2006 Brown, Joshua R. Book notice, “C. Richard Beam Honored.” Northeastern Anthropological Association Newsletter 28 (3): 3,5.
VI. Papers and Posters Presented
2020 Joshua R. Brown. "Last Stages of Language Shift: Pennsylvania Dutch as a Heritage Language." Invited paper presented to the Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia.
2020 Joshua R. Brown. "Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch." Invited paper presented to the Department of Language Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2020 Joshua R. Brown. "Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch." Plenary address, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 26 at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Conference cancelled.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Language Shift in Amish Appalachia." Invited paper presented to the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Marketing and Programming." Paper presented as part of a panel discussion "R & R: How to Recruit and Retain Post-Secondary Students" at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "The Diachronicity of Minneapolis's Heritage Linguistic Landscape." Paper presented at the 10th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Ostfold University College, Halden, Norway.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Primary Documents and the Wisconsin Idea." Paper presented as part of a panel discussion "Making Primary Documents Accessible" at the Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Madison, WI.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Language Ego-documents: Letters That Didn't Cross the Atlantic." Paper presented at the Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Madison, WI.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Recruitment and Retention for University Language Programs." Invited paper presented at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Amish Identities in Changing Contexts." Invited paper presented at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Language Life or Language Death: The Postvernacularity of Pennsylvania Dutch." Invited paper presented at Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Department Speaker Series, The Pennsylvania State University.
2018 Joshua R. Brown, Jillian Kresen, and Hannah Schneeman. "Beyond the Tourist's Berlin." Poster presented at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.
2018 Rachyl Hietpas, and Joshua R. Brown. "Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin." Poster presented at the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Eau Claire, WI.
2018 Brown, Joshua R. "Multilingualism in 19th Century Pennsylvania." Invited paper presented as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University.
2017 Brown, Joshua R, Tristan Devick, and Connor Zielinski. "Inclusive Pedagogy in the L2 Classroom." Paper presented at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Classroom." Invited Arts & Sciences Diversity Lecture at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Pennsylvania High German in the 19th Century." Paper presented at the Eighth Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Copenhagen.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "The Relevance of Social and Cultural Histories in Understanding Heritage Language Shift." Paper presented at the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, University of Kentucky.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. (convener). "Object Lessons: The Meanings of Pennsylvania German Life and Culture." Durnbaugh Seminar, Elizabethtown College.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. (convener). "Got Schnitz? Pennsylvania German Material Culture." Panel discussion, Elizabethtown College.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Heritage Language Literature and Literacy." Paper presented at the international symposium People of Faith, Languages of Tradition: Germanic Heritage Languages among Christians and Jews, UW-Madison.
2016 Brown, Joshua R. “Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Diversity for the German Classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston.
2016 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “Using e-portfolios to Facilitate and Gauge Language Growth Within and Between Core Courses.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston.
2016 Brown, Joshua R., and Anne Hlas. “Five Minute Activities.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2015 Brown, Joshua R., and Martina Lindseth. “Recipe for Growth: Reform, Recruitment, Retention.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Diego.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “Keeping Students on Task: How to Facilitate Meaningful Cultural Exchange.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Antonio.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “Engaging with the Host Culture During Study Abroad.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2014 Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. “Targeting Higher Level Proficiencies in L2 Writing.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2013 Brown, Joshua R. “Amish-Mennonite Religious Change and Language Shift.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, New York.
2013 Brown, Joshua R. “Negotiating Plainness among Amish and Mennonites in Clark County, Wisconsin.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Max Kade, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
2012 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “An Uplifting Experience: Fostering Metalinguistic Awareness for Proficiency Development.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., and Douglas J. Madenford. “Preserving an Ethnic Language Through Teaching.” Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., Kelsey Freymiller, and Benjamin Gordon. “Teaching Culture with the Soap Opera Lindenstraße.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. “Constraints on Syntax-semantic Variance in Language Contact.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Indiana University, Bloomington.
2012 Brown, Joshua R. “Language Maintenance and Shift in Negotiating Religious Identity.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Indiana University, Bloomington.
2012 Brown, Joshua R. “Rhetorical Dialect and Authenticity in Dutchified English.” Invited lecture for the Center for Upper Midwest Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2011 Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. “Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch.” Paper presented at the Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, Oslo.
2010 Brown, Joshua R. “Ethnolinguistic Vitality among the Hutterian Brethren.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 16, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. “Pennsylvania Dutch English on Broadway.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 15, University of Alberta, Calgary.
2008 Barnes, Hilary, Joshua R. Brown, and Eva-Maria Suarez Büdenbender. “Negative Complementation in Latin.” Poster presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 38, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2007 Brown, Joshua R., and B. Richard Page. “Attitudes toward Amish Multilingualism.” Paper presented at The Amish in American: New Identities and Diversities Conference, Elizabethtown College.
2007 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “Language Contact and the Retention of V2 in Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.
2007 Louden, Mark L., B. Richard Page, and Joshua R. Brown. “Pennsylvania German.” Workshop presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, The Pennsylvania State University.
2007 Brown, Joshua R. “Attempts at a Schriftsprache in Civil War-era Pennsylvania.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, The Pennsylvania State University.
2006 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “Big Valley Oral History Project: Language Attitudes Toward Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for German-American Studies, Lancaster, PA.
2006 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “From V2 to SVO? A Quantitative Analysis of Word Order in Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 12, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2020 Joshua R. Brown. "Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch." Invited paper presented to the Department of Language Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2020 Joshua R. Brown. "Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch." Plenary address, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 26 at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Conference cancelled.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Language Shift in Amish Appalachia." Invited paper presented to the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Marketing and Programming." Paper presented as part of a panel discussion "R & R: How to Recruit and Retain Post-Secondary Students" at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "The Diachronicity of Minneapolis's Heritage Linguistic Landscape." Paper presented at the 10th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Ostfold University College, Halden, Norway.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Primary Documents and the Wisconsin Idea." Paper presented as part of a panel discussion "Making Primary Documents Accessible" at the Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Madison, WI.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Language Ego-documents: Letters That Didn't Cross the Atlantic." Paper presented at the Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Madison, WI.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Recruitment and Retention for University Language Programs." Invited paper presented at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Amish Identities in Changing Contexts." Invited paper presented at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.
2019 Joshua R. Brown. "Language Life or Language Death: The Postvernacularity of Pennsylvania Dutch." Invited paper presented at Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Department Speaker Series, The Pennsylvania State University.
2018 Joshua R. Brown, Jillian Kresen, and Hannah Schneeman. "Beyond the Tourist's Berlin." Poster presented at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.
2018 Rachyl Hietpas, and Joshua R. Brown. "Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin." Poster presented at the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Eau Claire, WI.
2018 Brown, Joshua R. "Multilingualism in 19th Century Pennsylvania." Invited paper presented as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University.
2017 Brown, Joshua R, Tristan Devick, and Connor Zielinski. "Inclusive Pedagogy in the L2 Classroom." Paper presented at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Classroom." Invited Arts & Sciences Diversity Lecture at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Pennsylvania High German in the 19th Century." Paper presented at the Eighth Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Copenhagen.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "The Relevance of Social and Cultural Histories in Understanding Heritage Language Shift." Paper presented at the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, University of Kentucky.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. (convener). "Object Lessons: The Meanings of Pennsylvania German Life and Culture." Durnbaugh Seminar, Elizabethtown College.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. (convener). "Got Schnitz? Pennsylvania German Material Culture." Panel discussion, Elizabethtown College.
2017 Brown, Joshua R. "Heritage Language Literature and Literacy." Paper presented at the international symposium People of Faith, Languages of Tradition: Germanic Heritage Languages among Christians and Jews, UW-Madison.
2016 Brown, Joshua R. “Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Diversity for the German Classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston.
2016 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “Using e-portfolios to Facilitate and Gauge Language Growth Within and Between Core Courses.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston.
2016 Brown, Joshua R., and Anne Hlas. “Five Minute Activities.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2015 Brown, Joshua R., and Martina Lindseth. “Recipe for Growth: Reform, Recruitment, Retention.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Diego.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “Keeping Students on Task: How to Facilitate Meaningful Cultural Exchange.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Antonio.
2014 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “Engaging with the Host Culture During Study Abroad.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2014 Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. “Targeting Higher Level Proficiencies in L2 Writing.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2013 Brown, Joshua R. “Amish-Mennonite Religious Change and Language Shift.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, New York.
2013 Brown, Joshua R. “Negotiating Plainness among Amish and Mennonites in Clark County, Wisconsin.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Max Kade, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
2012 Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. “An Uplifting Experience: Fostering Metalinguistic Awareness for Proficiency Development.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., and Douglas J. Madenford. “Preserving an Ethnic Language Through Teaching.” Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., Kelsey Freymiller, and Benjamin Gordon. “Teaching Culture with the Soap Opera Lindenstraße.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. “Constraints on Syntax-semantic Variance in Language Contact.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Indiana University, Bloomington.
2012 Brown, Joshua R. “Language Maintenance and Shift in Negotiating Religious Identity.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Indiana University, Bloomington.
2012 Brown, Joshua R. “Rhetorical Dialect and Authenticity in Dutchified English.” Invited lecture for the Center for Upper Midwest Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2011 Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. “Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch.” Paper presented at the Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, Oslo.
2010 Brown, Joshua R. “Ethnolinguistic Vitality among the Hutterian Brethren.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 16, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2009 Brown, Joshua R. “Pennsylvania Dutch English on Broadway.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 15, University of Alberta, Calgary.
2008 Barnes, Hilary, Joshua R. Brown, and Eva-Maria Suarez Büdenbender. “Negative Complementation in Latin.” Poster presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 38, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2007 Brown, Joshua R., and B. Richard Page. “Attitudes toward Amish Multilingualism.” Paper presented at The Amish in American: New Identities and Diversities Conference, Elizabethtown College.
2007 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “Language Contact and the Retention of V2 in Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.
2007 Louden, Mark L., B. Richard Page, and Joshua R. Brown. “Pennsylvania German.” Workshop presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, The Pennsylvania State University.
2007 Brown, Joshua R. “Attempts at a Schriftsprache in Civil War-era Pennsylvania.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, The Pennsylvania State University.
2006 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “Big Valley Oral History Project: Language Attitudes Toward Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for German-American Studies, Lancaster, PA.
2006 Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “From V2 to SVO? A Quantitative Analysis of Word Order in Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 12, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
VII. Faculty-Student Collaborative Research
2018 Brown, Joshua R., Norah Airth-Kindree, Benjamin Peterson, Kylie Olson, and Cassandra Placketka. "Transcultural Nursing Care and Wisconsin's Amish Communities." Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Rachyl Hietpas. "Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin." Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., Hannah Schneeman, Jillian Kresen. "Beyond the Tourist's Berlin." Community-Based Research. Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2017-18 Brown, Joshua R., and Hunter Herlitzke. "Anabaptist Gender and Sexuality." Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2017 Brown, Joshua R., Tristan Devick, and Connor Zelinski. "Inclusive Pedagogy for the German Classroom." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant.
2016 Sanislo, Teresa, Joshua R. Brown, Hannah Schneeman, and Benjamin Carpenter. “Gender, Class, Generation, and the Politics of Memory in Berlin.” International Fellows Program.
2015 Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. “Writing Proficiency Development in an Upper-level Language Course."
2014 Brown, Joshua R., and Benjamin Carpenter. “Language and Identity Among Somalis in Barron, Wisconsin.” Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Posters in the Rotunda Event.
2013 Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. “Writing Proficiency in the Second Language Classroom.” Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., Kelsey Freymiller, and Benjamin Gordon. “Teaching Culture with Soap Operas."
2018 Brown, Joshua R., and Rachyl Hietpas. "Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin." Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2018 Brown, Joshua R., Hannah Schneeman, Jillian Kresen. "Beyond the Tourist's Berlin." Community-Based Research. Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2017-18 Brown, Joshua R., and Hunter Herlitzke. "Anabaptist Gender and Sexuality." Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2017 Brown, Joshua R., Tristan Devick, and Connor Zelinski. "Inclusive Pedagogy for the German Classroom." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant.
2016 Sanislo, Teresa, Joshua R. Brown, Hannah Schneeman, and Benjamin Carpenter. “Gender, Class, Generation, and the Politics of Memory in Berlin.” International Fellows Program.
2015 Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. “Writing Proficiency Development in an Upper-level Language Course."
2014 Brown, Joshua R., and Benjamin Carpenter. “Language and Identity Among Somalis in Barron, Wisconsin.” Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Posters in the Rotunda Event.
2013 Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. “Writing Proficiency in the Second Language Classroom.” Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
2012 Brown, Joshua R., Kelsey Freymiller, and Benjamin Gordon. “Teaching Culture with Soap Operas."
Additional Professional Experience
2011, 2009 Editorial assistant, Center for American Literary Studies
2010-11 Candace & Patrick E. Malloy Graduate Assistant, University Archives, The Pennsylvania State University
2007-10 Collections processing assistant, University Archives, The Pennsylvania State University
2005-11 Research assistant, Big Valley Oral History Project, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
2002-04 Teaching assistant, German and English language courses, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
2002-04 Research assistant, Research Institute for the German Language (Deutscher Sprachatlas), Department of Languages in Hessen, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
2000-04 Research assistant, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University
2010-11 Candace & Patrick E. Malloy Graduate Assistant, University Archives, The Pennsylvania State University
2007-10 Collections processing assistant, University Archives, The Pennsylvania State University
2005-11 Research assistant, Big Valley Oral History Project, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
2002-04 Teaching assistant, German and English language courses, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
2002-04 Research assistant, Research Institute for the German Language (Deutscher Sprachatlas), Department of Languages in Hessen, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
2000-04 Research assistant, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University
Thesis Committees
Anderson, Rebecca. The War at Home. Master of Arts in English (Writing), 2016.
Heidemann, Heidi. From Farmers to Cowboys: Rural American Identity and Community in Manawa, Wisconsin, 1848-1970. Master of Arts in History, 2014.
Jorgenson, Christopher J. Persistence of LGBTQ+ Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education. Doctor of Education in Student Affairs Administration and Leadership, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 2020.
Rocker, Maike. Verb Placement Variation in Heritage Speakers of Low German in Iowa: Evidence for Individual Language Attritiion or Communal Language Change? Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Linguistics and Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, in progress.
Heidemann, Heidi. From Farmers to Cowboys: Rural American Identity and Community in Manawa, Wisconsin, 1848-1970. Master of Arts in History, 2014.
Jorgenson, Christopher J. Persistence of LGBTQ+ Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education. Doctor of Education in Student Affairs Administration and Leadership, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 2020.
Rocker, Maike. Verb Placement Variation in Heritage Speakers of Low German in Iowa: Evidence for Individual Language Attritiion or Communal Language Change? Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Linguistics and Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, in progress.
Service to the Department & University
- Graduate faculty, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 2019-present
- Internal Review Committee chair (Latin American Studies program review), 2018
- College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2017-2021
- Non-Academic Misconduct Committee, 2017-present
- Campus Fulbright Awards Committee, 2017-present
- New Faculty Mentor, 2014-2015
- Institutional Resource Committee, 2014-2020
- Faculty search committee, Assistant professor of English, 2014
- Humanities grant proposal review committee chair, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, 2013-2017
- Languages Technology Committee, 2013-2017
- Liaison Committee, Women’s Studies, 2013-2016
- Faculty search committee, Assistant professor of Spanish, 2013
- LGBTQ Advisory Board, 2012-2019
- Blugold Differential Tuition Grant committee, 2012
Service to the Profession
- Editorial board, Open Germanic Linguistics, Language Science Press, 2020-present
- Student Travel Grant Committee, Committee on LGBTQ+[Z] Issues in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, 2020-present
- External partner, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, UW-Madison, 2019-present
- Working group for Student Success and Equity, Wisconsin Languages Roadmap, UW-Madison, 2018
- Conference co-organizer, Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, 2018
- Board of Directors, Friends of the Max Kade Institute, UW-Madison, 2017-2020, 2020-2023
- Steering Committee, North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2017-present
- Editor, Society for German-American Studies newsletter, 2017-present
- Editor, H-Net: Transnational German Studies, 2016-2020
- Affiliate lab member, Kontaktdeutsch, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014-present
- Editorial board, Studies in German Linguistics, John Benjamins Press, 2013-present
- Advisory Board, Pennsylvania Dutch Documentation Project, UW-Madison, 2013-present
- Webmaster, Wisconsin-American Association of Teachers of German, 2011-2020
- Conference co-organizer, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, 2006
Service to the Profession: Peer Reviews
Journals and volumes
Conferences
- Ampersand
- Cambridge University Press
- Critical Discourse Studies
- Critical Multilingualism Studies
- Focus on German Studies
- Herald Press
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
- Medicine Anthropology Theory
- Oslo Studies in Language
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (Cascadilla)
Conferences
- Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference
- International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics
- KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference
- Linguistic Society of America
- Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
Workshops
- Oral Proficiency Interview familiarization workshop, 2014
- B1-B2 certification training, Goethe Institute, Chicago, 2013
- Student advising, 2013-2014
- Writing Proficiency Test familiarization workshop, 2012
- Student engagement, 2012-2013
- Safe Space Training, 2011
Languages
- English (superior)
- German (superior)
- Pennsylvania Dutch (advanced)
- Classical & Medieval Latin (reading)
- Middle High German (reading)
- Gothic (reading)
