Overview
Joshua Shapero is a linguistic anthropologist with more than fifteen years of experience researching, teaching, and writing about language, culture, cognition, and environmental justice in the Andean region. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation and has been published in peer-reviewed journals of anthropology and cognitive science. In Fall 2025 he came to Duke University in order to offer courses in Quechua language and culture.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Lecturing Fellow in the Department of Romance Studies
·
2025 - Present
Romance Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
“Language and the Andean Environment.”
Chapter · March 27, 2025 This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. ... CitePossessive Places: Spatial Routines and Glacier Oracles in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca
Journal Article Ethnos · August 8, 2019 Full text CiteEducation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ·
2017
Ph.D.