- Joshua Anthony
- Position:
RCHA Postdoc
- Bio:
Dr. Josh Anthony is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. A recent PhD from the Department of History at Rutgers University, his research and teaching focus on Latin American, Indigenous, and global history. Anthony’s scholarship uses Native-language sources from early modern Mexico to address themes of empire, family and gender, local politics, and Indigenous cultural production across the transition from Aztec to Spanish rule. Anthony is the coeditor of After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest (Oxford University Press, 2025), a collaborative project that explores how Mexico’s Indigenous people lived through the rise of colonialism and continue to negotiate its ramifications today. His forthcoming book, The Codex Otlazpan and Tepexic: Creating Indigenous Governance in Early Colonial Mexico (University Press of Colorado and the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies), provides a new translation of a hieroglyphic codex that demonstrates how Indigenous communities helped forge Mexico’s colonial government. Anthony’s current book project, Amaquemecan’s Royal Relations: An Indigenous Family History of the Aztec Empire and Colonial Mexico, reframes the conquest of Mexico through the family history of an Indigenous town under Aztec and Spanish rule. A portion of that project will be published in the October issue of Ethnohistory. Beyond his research, Anthony is an active public scholar, and has served as a consultant for video games, museum exhibitions, and children’s books, among other public-facing projects. He is currently a member of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network, and has previous held fellowships from the McNeil Center at the University of Pennsylvania, The Americas, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Hispanic Society Museum and Library.
