May 17, 2012
Joshua W. Walker
Fellowship
- Status
- Past Fellow
- Year
- 2010
Biography
- Biography
Joshua W. Walker is Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
Joshua's work focuses on international relations and security studies with a particular emphasis on the Middle East and East Asia. Joshua received his Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy at Princeton University where he wrote a dissertation on the role of historical memories in post-imperial successor states' domestic and foreign policies with particular focus on Turkey and Japan.
In 2010–2011, Joshua will be working on his book project Shadows of Empires: How Post-Imperial Successor States Shape Memories along with articles on new directions in Turkish and Japanese foreign policies. Walker was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Transatlantic Academy based in Washington, D.C., working on Turkey and its neighborhood that resulted in a policy report and forthcoming book project titled, Getting to Zero.
Walker is a fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and Bradley Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations at Princeton and the Young Professions in Foreign Policy in New York. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Yale University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Ankara, Turkey, and worked for the U.S. Embassy and State Department on Turkey.
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