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). Published
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, 2026. Published
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. "Library Collaborates with Experts to Use AI to Explore Mexico's Indigenous Cultural Heritage." Cambridge University Library Special Collections Blog, December 6, 2025.
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. "Parsing Posada's Pastimes: Museum Reflections on the Artful Board Games of Mexico before the Revolution." Cambridge Creative Encounters, University of Cambridge, 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. "Multicoloured and Melodious Dimensions of the Americas: Music, Colour, and Craft Playshop," Parts 1 and 2. CRASSH Research Networks Blog, Spring 2023.
Fitzgerald, Joshua. "Rethinking the Double-Headed Serpent at the British Museum: A Terrifying Turquoise Caterpillar?" Mexicolore, 2022.
Participant, "Nahua Voices on the Conquest: 'De Como los españoles conquistaron a la ciudad de Mexico,' Book 12, Florentine Codex." Getty Research Institute, August 13, 2021.
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
Chapters and Articles
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob, and Flavia Fiorillo. "To Erase with Paste: Liquid Correctional Technologies at the Confluence of Aztec and European Erasures (1300 to 1600 CE)." In special issue "History of Erasure in Premodern Manuscripts," edited by Eyal Poleg, Quaerendo. Forthcoming
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 2027
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. "Cage of Empires: Conquistador and Aztec Affordances and the Trappings of Spanish Invasion Play in AoE II." In Indigenous Peoples in/and Video Games, edited by A. De León, W. Sierra, A. Bird, and N. Lagace. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Forthcoming 2027
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
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)." Forthcoming 2027
Fitzgerald, Joshua Jacob. "(Con)Voluted Visions: Morpheme Triplication as Amplified Speech from Mesoamerican to Transatlantic Contexts." In proceedings of the WAVE 2 VIEWS Project, edited by P. Steele. 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.