Joshua L. Freeman is a historian and translator, and is currently a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He received his PhD at Harvard University, where his dissertation focused on Uyghur cultural history in twentieth-century China. His translations of contemporary Uyghur poetry have appeared in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. More of his translations can be found at his website.