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A Boston native, Josh joined the Texifter team in September 2010, having previously studied under Stu Shulman at UMASS Amherst. He graduated from UMASS in May 2011 with a double degree in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, with minors in History, International Relations, and Arabic. While at UMASS Josh designed and taught an advanced class that examined the intersection of technological development and national identity formation. Serving also as a research assistant in the UMASS Political Science department, he researched and published articles on electoral politics and political dissent in Jordan.

Josh has conducted and presented multilingual field research on civil society development, democratization, and national identity formation throughout the Middle East - namely in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. His honors thesis was entitled, "The Role of Women's Rights NGOs in Syrian Democratization." When not managing projects in QDAP or harvesting Arabic protest tweets in DiscoverText, Josh can be found strumming a ukulele, exploring Netflix, or swinging aimlessly at tennis balls.