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Joshua Babcock is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2022). His research interrogates colonial images, decolonial futures, and their impacts on racial/linguistic belonging, particularly in Singapore and the U.S. His current book project, Image and the Total Utopia: Desiring Distinction in Multilingual, Multiracial Singapore, examines how totalizing colonial images both structure and destabilize social aspirations.
- Research Foci: Media studies, raciolinguistics, STS, settler colonialism, queer theory
- Affiliations: Member of South/South Movement editorial collective; collaborator with U.S. Embassy Alumni Mentoring Program
Emerging projects include analyses of U.S.-Southeast Asian democratic imagery, 19th-century Malayan migrants in New Orleans, and Singapore’s contested national identity via the Singapore Sling cocktail. His work appears in American Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Society and Space.
Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2020), Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Award (2019).
Teaching: Focuses on antiracist pedagogy, including collaborative inquiry methods and public pedagogies. Topics include language policy, decolonial practice, and intersectional othering.
