Joseph is currently Lecturer in the Graduate Tourism program and Director, Australia & International Tourism Research Unit (AITRU) at the National Centre for Australia Studies (NCAS), Faculty of Arts. Joseph’s PhD (Anthropology – under exam) is titled Tourism and the Neotraditional Modernity: An Ethnography of Tourism & Traditional Culture in Vanuatu. This research examined the tourism and traditional culture interface, as personified in the tradition-modernity binary. In 2014 Joseph received a prestigious Monash University Postgraduate Publications Award (2014) and was awarded a place in the esteemed Native Title Masterclass at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University - his aims are to develop a long-term project concerning the relationship between Native Title and Tourism, Heritage and Culture in Australia. Joseph has published his work in quality international publications including Annals of Tourism Research; Tourism Analysis; Tourism, Development & Planning; Pacific Economic Bulletin and Journal of Heritage Tourism. At present he is working on publishing his PhD thesis as a book with the University of Hawaii Press (UHP) and collaborating with AID/WATCH to critique the use of aid in tourism development.