Josh Newton

Josh Newton is a Staff Research Assistant performing research on U.S. and Canadian place-based philanthropies with the UCSD Urban Studies and Planning department. Josh has 5 years of experience teaching. These experiences have given him the necessary skills to encourage students in their academic work and engage them using multiple methods.

• MA in History, University of California, San Diego, CA
• MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ
• BTh, The King’s University, Van Nuys, CA

• Lecturer for Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Cities at the University of California, San Diego
• Lecturer for History of U.S. Urban Communities at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for African American History at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Asian American History at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Chican@ History at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Urban World Systems at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for The City and Social Theory at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for History of Urban Planning and Design at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Urban Studies and Planning Senior Sequence at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Urban Planning at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Sociology of Health and Health Care Issues at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Methods of Studying Race and Ethnicity at the University of California, San Diego
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Communications, Institutions, and Power at the University of California, San Diego

• 2015 UC Humanities Research Institute Graduate Research Travel Grant, University of California
• 2015 Dean of Arts and Humanities Travel Award, University of California, San Diego
• 2014 & 2015 Department of History Travel Grant, University of California, San Diego