Publications
Monograph
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. An Unholy Pedagogy: Visions of Learning from Mesoamerica, 1300 to 1650. Cambridge Latin American Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. ISBN: 9781009702577. Published
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "An Innovative Inkwell: Posada's Games, Nuevo Coyote's Pozos, and the Art of Play in Nineteenth-Century Mexico." Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 8, no. 3 (June 2026). Forthcoming
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Aztec Paste Makers and Breakers: Ritual Tools for Crafting Food-Art, Empowering Water and Killing Mountains in Early-Modern Mexico." In Food Production and Gender across the Early Modern World, edited by Melissa Calaresu and Marta Manzanares Mileo. Routledge. Forthcoming 2026
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Tlaloc's Cheeky Charms: Colouring in the Ethnobotanical Visions of Amaranth and Chia in Postclassic Aztec Food-Art and Sculpture." Archaeological Review from Cambridge 40, no. 1 (May 2025): 73-91. Published
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Insect Reds and Cactus Blood." In exhibition catalogue COLOUR: Art, Science, & Power (2022-23), edited by Anita Herle. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Published
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "As the Digital Teocalli Burns: Mesoamerica as Gamified Space and the Displacement of Sacred Pixels." Review of International American Studies 16, no. 1 (2023): 259-306. Published
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Visualizing Martial Mothers, Eagle-Women, and Water Warriors in the Florentine Codex." Getty Research Journal, no. 16 (2022): 41-66. Published
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Mistaken Places: Mesoamerican Meaning in the Sixteenth-Century Catholic Courtyards of Mexico." In Place Meaning and Attachment: Authenticity, Heritage and Preservation, edited by Dak Kopec and AnnaMarie Bliss, 80-91. London: Routledge, 2020. Published
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob, with Michael Their and Paul Beach. "Partitioning Schools: Federal Vocational Policy, Tracking, and the Rise of Twentieth-Century Dogmas." In Educating a Working Society: Vocationalism, the Smith-Hughes Act, and Modern America, edited by Glenn Lauzon. Organization of Educational Historians, Information Age Publishing, 2018. Published
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob, with Michael Their, Paul Beach, and Christine Pitts. "Cutting-Edge (and Dull) Paths Forward: Accountability and Career and Technical Education under the Every Student Succeeds Act." In Educating a Working Society, edited by Glenn Lauzon. Information Age Publishing, 2018. Published
Public Scholarship and Digital Publications
Fitzgerald, Joshua. "The Bible Society's First Mexican Gospels and the Polyglot Scot Who Would Learn Nahuatl." Cambridge University Library Special Collections Blog, July 4, 2025.
Fitzgerald, Joshua. "Broken Hearts Club: To Show Love, Joy and Hardship in the Nahua-Mixteca Writing System." VIEWS Project Blog, February 14, 2025.
Fitzgerald, Joshua, with Adrian Gamboa and Julian Escott. "Mexico's History of Gaming, Art, and AR-tful Designs for Cambridge Creative Encounters." MAA Digital Labs Blog, March 21, 2024.
Fitzgerald, Joshua, with Jonathan Truitt. "An Unbecoming King: Making Mighty Chessmen in Porfirian Mexico." MAA Digital Labs Blog, July 25, 2023.
Panel descriptions for "Book 12: Spanish Conquest," in Digital Florentine Codex, Getty Research Institute, 2023. With Kim Richter.
Fitzgerald, Joshua. "Rethinking the Double-Headed Serpent at the British Museum: A Terrifying Turquoise Caterpillar?" Mexicolore, 2022.
Fitzgerald, Joshua. "Aztec Art and Feasts for the Dead." Smarthistory, October 30, 2020.
Fitzgerald, Joshua, with Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw. "Who Writes History? Competing Narratives about the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire." The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty, March 26, 2020.
Works in Progress
Book Manuscripts
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. The Great Aztec Cover-up: The Uncovered History of Writing Technologies that Corrected Early Manuscripts. In Progress
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. Mesoamerica's Mothers in the Making: Redefining the Dimensions of Powerful Indigenous Women at the Crossroads of Spanish Colonialism. In Progress
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. Ready Conquistador 1: Digital Colonial Game vs. Mesoamerican Heritage. Several chapters and proposal drafted. In Progress
Chapters and Articles
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Pressing Words into Mountains: Nahua Colonial Food Discourse, Amaranth Edible-Arts and Time-Consuming Glyphs." In Indigenous Foodways in Latin America, edited by K. Sampeck, K. Kole de Peralta, and E. Stone. University of Nebraska Press. Forthcoming
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Bloody Good Fruit: Spanish Encounters with Aztec Cactus Fruit and the Foundations of Tenochtitlan." In Encounters: Early Modern Food in 50 Objects, edited by M. Manzanares Mileo and Laia Portet. Routledge. In Progress
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "The Black, The Red, The White-Out? Uncovering the Art of Writing in the Aztec-Christian Lectionary at Cambridge University Library." In Progress
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "New (Old) Lessons: The Transcultural Context of Cambridge's Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl-Latin Lectionary (BFBS Ms 375)." In Progress
Flavia Fiorillo, Joshua Jacob Fitzgerald, and David Mills. "Material Contexts of Colonial Mexico's Christian Lessons: Technical Analysis of the Cambridge Nahuatl Latin Lectionary (BS MS 375)." In Progress
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Regenerative Not Recumbent: Nahua Artistry, Chacmool Historicity, and Moore's Meaningful Lacunae." Forthcoming
Dissertation
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "Unholy Pedagogy: Local Knowledge, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Lessons from Spanish Colonial Learningscapes, 1400 to 1650." PhD diss., University of Oregon, 2019.