Joshua is a PhD candidate in Political Theory at the University of British Columbia.

I work in modern political theory and the history of political thought. My dissertation project, “A World Laid Waste: Critical Theory and the Domination of Nature,” traces the methodological separation of “nature” and “society” from the seventeenth century onward and challenges some of its basic assumptions using the tools of Critical Theory.

I am especially interested in the history of the “Frankfurt” School; the philosophies of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Hans Blumenberg, and Hannah Arendt; the intellectual migration of Jewish thought; environmental political theory (especially the history of ecology); and critical animal studies.

W.J. Stankiewicz Memorial Prize in Political Theory, 2022.

Ronald C. Schwarzkopf Award in Political Science, 2017

Temple University Diamond Research Scholar, 2015-2016