Joshua Fitzgerald

Joshua Fitzgerald was awarded the Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge in 2020. An ethnohistorian of Nahua communities of Central Mexico, Fitzgerald primarily studies Nahuatl primary sources in order to explore modalities of Indigenous and Indigenous-Colonial educational practices, as well as place- and object-based archives. Joshua’s temporal focus resides directly before and after the advent of European ideologies, namely the 16th century. His work emphasizes advocacy of increased public and academic bridging between the UK and Mexico.

The Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellowship framed Joshua’s work on ‘Art as a Source of Knowledge’ within the context of colonial Mexico. This work constituted Fitzgerald’s master’s in art history, at the same time he began to conceptualize his project “Re-Imagining Coyote” – an artist response-driven curation of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s 19th century board games from Mexico. This exhibit has traveled internationally, with features at the Cambridge Festival, Tijuana World Environment Day, and the World Design Capital exhibition in San Diego. In addition to his MA in Art History, Joshua Fitzgerald holds a BA in History from the University of Utah (2010), an MA as well as a PhD in History from the University of Oregon.