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  Josh Brown, PhD

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

Appointments

  • Professor of German and linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2021-present
  • Associate professor of German (tenured), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2016-2021
  • Assistant professor of German (tenure-track), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2011-2016
  • Affiliate faculty in Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  • Collections processing assistant, University Archives, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007-2011
  • Research assistant, Forschungsinstitut für die deutsche Sprache — Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg, Germany, 2002-2004
  • Research assistant, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville, Pennsylvania, 2000-2002, 2004

Honors / Awards / Fellowships / Grants

2022  Center for Humanities Digital Humanities Grant, Penn State, w/ Mike Putnam & Steffi Wulff, $6424
2022  Small research grant, $500
2021  Center for Language Science Seed Funding Grant, Penn State, w/ Mike Putnam & Steffi Wulff, $2500
2021  UW System's P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ+ People
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

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

2022 Brown, Joshua R., ed. The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Link]

2022 Biers, Kelly, and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Selected Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  [OpenAccess]

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. [OpenAccess]

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]  Madenford, Douglas J., and Joshua R. Brown. 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

2021 Brown, Joshua, Tristan Devick, and Connor Zielinski. "A Culturally Relevant Approach to Food Customs in the German Curriculum." Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 54 (2): 181-199. doi.org/10.1111/tger.12170 

​2020 Brown, Joshua R. "Writing about Amish Women and Singlehood." Culture and Religion 20 (4): 371-389. 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. [OpenAccess]

2019  Brown, Joshua R. "Civil War Writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2): 20180032. doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2018-0032 [OpenAccess]

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. [OpenAccess]

2018  Brown, Joshua R., and Benjamin Carpenter. "Heritage Somali and Identity in Barron, Wisconsin." Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 348-371. doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01102008 [OpenAccess]

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. doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3324498
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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. jstor.org/stable/unteteacgerm.47.issue-1

2012  Brown, Joshua R., and Beate Brunow. "Portfolio Assessment in College-level Business German Courses." German as a Foreign Language 1: 93-117. [OpenAccess]

2011  Brown, Joshua R. "No Homo." Journal of Homosexuality 58 (3): 299-314. doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2011.546721

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)

2022 Brown, Joshua R., and Joseph Salmons. "A Verticalization Theory of Language Shift." In The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities, edited by Joshua R. Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

​2022 Brown, Joshua R. "Language and Religious Shift in Central Pennsylvania." In The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities, edited by Joshua R. Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2019  Brown, Joshua R. "Somalis in Wisconsin." Wisconsin Englishes Project. [url]

2019  Brown, Joshua R. "Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5: 20190023. doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2019-0023

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. [OpenAccess]

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. [OpenAccess]

2018  Bousquette, Joshua, and Joshua R. Brown. "Heritage Languages in North America: Formal Linguistic Approaches." Journal of Language Contact 11 (3): 373-378. doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01103001 [OpenAccess]

2018  Brown, Joshua R., and Joshua Bousquette. "Heritage Languages in North America: Sociolinguistic Approaches." Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 201-207. doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01102002 [OpenAccess]

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). [url]

​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.

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.

VI. Papers and Posters Presented

2022 Angela Hoffman and Joshua R. Brown. "Local Immigrant Church Records" Panel on Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Postvernacularity. Historical Sociolinguistics Network annual conference, University of Murcia, June 1-3.

2022  Joshua R. Brown. "Murder Most Multilingual: At the Crossroads of Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics." Plenary address, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 27 at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. March 31-April 2.

2021 Angela Hoffman and Joshua R. Brown. "Ideology and Språkfrågan: Paths Leading to Language Shift in Four Swedish-American Congregations." Paper presented at the 12th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Helsinki, October 6-9.

2021 Joshua R. Brown. "Verticalization Processes in American Heritage Language Communities." Invited paper presented as part of a panel on Different Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Shift: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, Universität Regensburg.

2020 Joshua R. Brown. "Creating Language Programs that Recruit and Retain." Invited paper presented to the Department of French and Italian and the Department of German, University of Texas at Austin.
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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, and Angela Hoffman. "Heritage Swedish across the Lifespan in a Minnesota Family." Paper presented at the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of North Carolina-Asheville.

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.
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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.
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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

2020-21 Brown, Joshua R., Kensie Kiesow, Stephanie Puestow, Mary Kate Schneeman, and Nikolaus Spittlemeister. "Preserving Heritage Languages Ego-documents." Research Experiences for Undergraduates.

2020 Brown, Joshua R., Luca Ciletti, and Katie Scherger. "Wisconsin's Heritage Language Ego-documents." Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates.

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.
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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.
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2012  Brown, Joshua R., Kelsey Freymiller, and Benjamin Gordon. “Teaching Culture with Soap Operas."

Thesis Committees

Anderson, Rebecca. The War at Home. Master of Arts in English (Writing), 2016.

Fisher, Rose. 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.

Pederson, Christopher J. German-American Schuetzen Activities from the Mid-1800s to Early 1900s. Master of Arts in History, 2021.
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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, 2022.

Service to the Department, University, & System

  • Graduate faculty, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 2019-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
  • 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
  • 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, 2017-2020
  • Editor, Society for German-American Studies newsletter, 2017-present
  • Editor, H-Net: Transnational German Studies, 2016-present
  • 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: Selected Peer Reviews

Grant programs
  • National Science Centre Poland
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Dutch Research Council)
Journals and volumes
  • American Speech
  • Ampersand
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Critical Discourse Studies
  • Critical Multilingualism Studies
  • Focus on German Studies
  • Herald Press
  • ​Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 
  • Languages
  • ​Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  • Medicine Anthropology Theory
  • Oslo Studies in Language
  • Proceedings of the Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (Cascadilla)
  • Routledge
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)
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