Joshua R. Brown is Professor of German and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is primarily interested in heritage languages, language maintenance and shift, multilingualism, and historical sociolinguistics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Language Contact, Critical Multilingualism Studies, and American Speech, among others. He is the co-editor of Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia
(with Simon J. Bronner; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and editor of a special issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics focusing on heritage languages.