Josh Kun

  • Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg School
  • Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College
Office: (213) 821-4325

Expertise Summary

Expert in popular music, U.S.-Mexico border culture, global and ethnic popular culture

Expertise

  • popular music
  • U.S.-Mexico border culture
  • Tijuana
  • Jewish popular music
  • Jewish-American popular culture
  • Chicano popular culture
  • global popular culture
  • the music and culture of Los Angeles
  • ethnic American literature

Languages

  • Spanish

Additional Information

  • Fellow, The MacArthur Foundation
  • Director, The Popular Music Project, The Norman Lear Center
  • Winner, 2006 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
  • Winner, 2018 Berlin Prize and Bosch Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin