Josh Kun is an associate professor of Communication and Journalism at the Annenberg School. His research focuses on the arts and politics of cultural connection, with an emphasis on popular music, the cultures of globalization, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Jewish-American musical history.
As a critic and journalist, Kun is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and his writing has also appeared in the Village Voice, Spin, Mother Jones and Rolling Stone.