Joshua holds a PhD in Media & Public Affairs from the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he was an Instructor of Record from for three years prior to coming to FSC. Joshua is a critical-cultural scholar whose research focuses on storytelling, public relations, and propaganda through the lens race, power, and inequality. Joshua's dissertation was funded by the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research, and his doctoral research was twice funded by the Diversity, Equity and Media (DEM) Grant. In the past, Joshua held a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and a COMPASS Fellowship in Media Policy at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from Texas, Joshua hold's a bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Dallas, a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, and an unremitting love for gumbo and red beans and rice.