Josh Honn is the Humanities and Prison Education Librarian at Northwestern University Libraries where he actively engages with faculty and students to provide instruction and research assistance. As part of the Distinctive Collections and Research Services department, he also manages and develops collections in support of research, teaching, and learning across his portfolio of humanities disciplines and in the area of social justice. In collaboration with the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP), Honn manages the library's research and information literacy support for inarcerated students and collaborates with NPEP faculty on course-based research projects.

In 2024, Honn was promoted to the rank of Senior Librarian Faculty and is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies. In 2018, he was awarded a year-long fellowship with the Alice Kaplan Insitute for the Humanities for his research project, "How Tall a Shadow You Can Make: Ross D. Brown, Historical Memory, and Archives of Care." In his previous role as Digital Humanities Librarian, he participated in numerous digital scholarly projects and initiatives at Northwestern and beyond, and was awarded a Mellon Foundation grant for the community-engaged "Native American Educational Services College Digital Library Project."