AUTHOR: Joshua Kueh

Joshua Kueh is a reference librarian for Southeast Asia in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, where he covers topics on Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Timor Leste. Prior to his arrival at the Library of Congress in 2019, he taught courses on Southeast Asian history and Asian Studies at Georgetown University and The Catholic University of America. Joshua received his doctorate in trans-regional history from Georgetown University and MA in Spanish from University of Virginia. His research interests include subjects connected to migration and the state, inter-communal relationships, narratives of empire, and trade networks in Southeast Asia. He has published articles in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. More recently he has been learning about Malay manuscripts and printing in Southeast Asia, as well as Mangyan writing traditions.
Most Recent Posts
- New Display at Library of Congress Highlights Jade Snow Wong April 28th, 2023
- Celebrating the New Delhi Overseas Operations Field Office’s 60th Anniversary, 1962-2022 March 15th, 2023
- Now Online: Mangyan Bamboo Collection from the Philippines at the Library of Congress February 1st, 2023
- An Evening with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa December 2nd, 2022
- Negotiating Empire, Part II: Translation in the Philippines under Spanish Rule, 16th-19th centuries November 1st, 2021
- Negotiating Empire, Part I: From Magellan to the Founding of Manila, 16th-18th Centuries October 1st, 2021
- Now Online: William Farquhar Correspondence and Other Malay Letters at the Library of Congress January 25th, 2021
- Asia, Texts, and Textiles at the Library of Congress, Part II: Hmong Story Cloths July 23rd, 2020
- “Doctrina Christiana”: More than Four-hundred Years of Filipino-American History October 28th, 2019