Joshua Rosen
Teaching Assistant
Joshua Rosen
Contact
Stokes Hall South 344
Email: joshua.rosen@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., Vanderbilt University
- M.A., Pace University
Courses
Globalization I & II
Research Interests
twentieth-century United States; urban history; political economy; racial inequality; housing; education
Advisor
Department
Biography
Joshua Rosen studies the twentieth century United States, with interests in urban history, political economy, and racial inequality. His dissertation focuses on the rental housing market in Greater Boston between the 1960s and the Great Recession. The dissertation will trace how decades of successive housing crises produced our current unaffordable housing market, in which one half of tenants are rent-burdened.
Josh's research has been supported by the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and the Clough Center at Boston College. Josh's Metropole article, "My Street Looks Different Now: Oral History and the Anti-Redlining Movement," was awarded Best Graduate Student Blog Post of 2024 by the Urban History Association.
Josh is also interested in digital history and public history. He recently worked as a research manager for Building Inequality, a digital mapping project by Brent Cebul and Michael Glass that documents the role of federally-insured apartment buildings in segregating American cities and suburbs.
Before starting his PhD, Josh taught US History for five years at Bronx Compass High School, where he was a chapter leader in the United Federation of Teachers. He also worked as an educator at the Tenement Museum, an immigration and migration history museum on New York’s Lower East Side.