Joshua Ronald Johnson After graduating from the University of Georgia Magna Cum Laude with a double major in Politics and Linguistics, Josh moved to Japan where he lived for four years. During that time he passed the second-highest level of Japanese proficiency and used the country as a springboard for travels further afield in Asia. Josh is currently a second-year MA student at Johns Hopkins SAIS in the Southeast Asia Department. He studies Thai and Bahasa Indonesia. During his tenure at SAIS he has improved his Thai proficiency at a language institute in Bangkok, worked under parliamentarian Liew Chin Tong in Kuala Lumpur, and authored a policy paper on low-cost housing at a think tank in Penang. Josh is currently interning at the US Department of the Treasury in the Office of South and Southeast Asia. Josh's interests include nationalism, nation-building, democratization, monetary economics, and language and power. | 
