Josh Brew is a scholar-performer whose work explores the intersections of music, digital technology, and sustainability.
He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Digital Technology for Democracy Lab and previously held a fellowship at UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies.
As an Andrew Mellon Fellow, he earned a PhD in Music, with a secondary field in Africana Studies, from the University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching examine how global Black musics and sonic practices generate alternative ways of theorizing human life, ecological relations, and technological futures. He is also a performer whose practice spans classical guitar, hip hop, jazz, highlife, and Afrobeats.