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Dr. Joshua Price
Professor
Spotlight
Joshua Price writes on structural and institutional violence, race and gender violence, incarceration and life after incarceration. Josh also studies the role of language and translation practices in the colonization of the Americas. He is the author or coeditor of four books, including (Rutgers UP 2015), (Arizona UP 2023).
Josh co-translated Jos茅 Pablo Feinmann鈥檚 Heidegger鈥檚 Shadow (with Mar铆a Constanza Guzm谩n) (Texas Tech UP 2016) and Rodolfo Kusch鈥檚 Indigenous and Popular Thinking in Am茅rica (with Mar铆a Lugones) (Duke 2010).
Josh has held fellowships at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Study at Emory University; Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University (NB); the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin); and he has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at University of Antioquia (Medell铆n, Colombia).
Education
| Univeristy | Degree |
|---|---|
| University of Chicago | PhD Socio-Cultural Anthropology |
| University of Chicago | M.A., Socio-Cultural Anthropology |
| Carleton College | B.A., Sociology and Anthropology |
Selected Publications
Books
- De Gruyter Handbook on Structural Violence. Joshua M. Price and Alexandra Moore, eds. De Gruyter: Forthcoming in 2026.
Recent Work on Violence, Punishment and the State
- 鈥淣on-Punishment Punishments.鈥� On Punishment. Timm Sureau, Filip Vojta, and G眉nther Schlee, eds. Halle, Saale, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Forthcoming in 2026.
- 鈥淯buntu Ethics.鈥� Transformative Justice Journal. 5. 1, October, 2024: 25-32.
- "Manufacturing Legitimacy." (Coauthored with Monroe E. Price) In Technology and Governance Beyond the State: The Rule of Non-Law (Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology). Edited by Nicole Stremlau and Clara Voyvodic Casab贸. Taylor and Francis: 2024.
- 鈥淎n Ethnography of Injustice: Death at a County Jail,鈥� in Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations. Rashi K. Shukla and Miriam Boeri, eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019, 232-258.
- 鈥淒eath Worlds in Jail.鈥� Speaking Face to Face/Hablando Cara a Cara. Shireen Roshanravan, Pedro Di Pietro and Jennifer McWeeny, eds. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019.
- 鈥淪erving Two Masters? Reentry Task Forces and Justice Disinvestment.鈥� After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment. William G. Martin and Joshua M. Price, eds. CT: Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2016.
- 鈥淭owards a New Reconstruction.鈥� (Co-authored with William G. Martin). After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment. William G. Martin and Joshua M. Price, eds. CT: Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2016.
- 鈥淏lues without Black People: Notes on New Orleans, Ethnic Cleansing, and the White Imagination.鈥� Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Edited by Teresa Booker. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2016.
Recent Work in Translation Studies and Translation Theory
- 鈥淭ranslating 鈥楾he Anguish of the Mestizo.鈥欌�� Translation in Society. 4.2, Nov, 2025: 248 鈥� 258.
- 鈥淭ranslating Concepts from Latin American Philosophy: Ontologies and aesthetics in the work of Rodolfo Kusch.鈥� Encounters in Translation. 2. November, 2024: DOI: 10.35562/encounters-in-translation.955
- 鈥淭raducci贸n y epistemicidio: Relaciones de dominaci贸n cultural en las am茅ricas.鈥� Producci贸n de saberes y transferencias culturales: Am茅rica Latina en contexto transregional. Edited by Peter Birle, Sandra Carreras, Iken Paap, and Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle. Madrid: Vervuert, 2023.
- 鈥淭ranslation Frequencies: Tuning in or out in Multilingual Settings.鈥� In Negotiating Linguistic Plurality Translation and Multilingualism in Canada and Beyond. Mar铆a Guzman and 艦ehnaz Tahir G眉r莽a臒lar, eds. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2022, 87-106.
- 鈥淭aking Sides: Urban Wandering as Decolonial Translation and Critique of Settler Colonialism.鈥� Tusaaji: A Translation Review. 7.1, 2019. pp. 68-83.
- 鈥淭ranslation in the Human Sciences.鈥� Teaching Translation. Lawrence Venuti, ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
- 鈥淟ing眉铆stica, interdisciplinaridade e a an谩lise do poder.鈥� Interfaces com a lingu铆stica, Junia Zaidan, trans. Patrick Rezende, ed. S茫o Paulo, Brazil: Pedro & Jo膩o Editores, 2016.
- 鈥淲hose America? Decolonial Translation by Frederick Douglass and Caetano Veloso.鈥� TTR Journal. 28.1-2, 2015, pp. 65鈥�89.
- 鈥淭heories of Translation and Modernity鈥檚 Anguished Counterpoints: Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas and Walter Benjamin.鈥� Mutatis Mutandis. 3.2, 2010. pp. 249-275.
- 鈥淭ranslating Social Science: Good versus Bad Utopianism鈥� Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. 20:2, 2008, pp. 348鈥�364.
- [Translation into Spanish: 鈥淟a traducci贸n de las ciencias sociales: Utopismos bueno y malo confrontados.鈥� Translated by Servio Tulio Ben铆tez. Mutatis Mutandis. 3.1, 2010. pp. 152 鈥� 173.]
- [Translation into Portuguese: 鈥淭raduzindo a ci锚ncia social: o bom versus o mal utopismo.鈥� Translated by Lauro Maia Amorim. O traduzir traduzido: di谩logos com a tradu莽茫o. Edited by Lenita Esteves. S茫o Paulo: Universidade de S茫o Paulo, 2019. 68-94. DOI: 10.11.606/9788575063675]
- 鈥淓ntry and Threshold: Translation and Cultural Criticism.鈥� Translation and Literary Studies. Edited by Marella Feltrin-Morris, Debbie Folaron, and Mar铆a Constanza Guzm谩n. Manchester, England: St. Jerome Press, 2012. pp. 79-89.
Translations
- Essay translation: 鈥淭he Anguish of the Mestizo Between Quechua and Spanish鈥� by Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas. Translated by Joshua Price, Gabriela Veronelli, and Mar铆a Constanza Guzm谩n. Translation in Society, , Nov 2025: 259 - 263.
- Essay translation: 鈥淟osses鈥� by Cristina Bendek. , 95, May, 2025.
- Book chapter translation: 鈥淭ranslators in the twentieth century,鈥� by Patricia Willson.
- Translated by Mar铆a C. Guzm谩n and Joshua M. Price. In Le vouloir-traduire: En hommage 脿 Patricia Willson. 95-110. Li猫ge, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Li猫ge, 2023.
- Book translation: Heidegger麓s Shadow by Jos茅 Pablo Feinmann. Translated by Joshua M. Price and Mar铆a Constanza Guzm谩n. Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2016.
- Book translation: Indigenous and Popular Thinking in Am茅rica by Rodolfo Kusch. Translated by Maria Lugones and Joshua M. Price. Duke University Press, 2010.
- Article translation: 鈥淟anguage, Experience and Identity: Joan W. Scott and the Theoretical Reorientation in Historical Studies,鈥� by Miguel A. Cabrera. Translated by Mar铆a Constanza Guzm谩n and Joshua M. Price. The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism. Edited by Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed. Indiana University Press, 2011. pp. 31-49.