Josh Kun

Josh Kun is a writer, journalist and curator whose work focuses on the politics of popular music, art and culture. He is the inaugural Vice Provost for the Arts as well as Professor and Chair of Cross-Cultural Communication at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Josh received a BA in literature at Duke and a PhD in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He wrote the essay “Look. Listen. Help” to accompany the new album, Help, by multi-media artist Duval Timothy. He was a panelist for “The Fire This Time: Race at the Boiling Point” alongside Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Herman Gray and Gaye Theresa Johnson.

Josh also created three new radio mixes on racial justice for Artform Radio and WorldwideFM: The Desegregated Firmament: For BLM, Violins for Elijah and They Murder Chicanos Don’t They.

He received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2016.