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Shelley Fisher Fishkin<\/strong>\u00a0is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities. Professor of English and (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the former Director of Stanford’s American Studies Program and Co-Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford. She is the award-winning author, editor, or co-editor of\u00a0fifty books\u00a0and has published over one hundred fifty articles, essays and reviews, many of which have focused on issues of race and racism in America, and on recovering and interpreting voices that were silenced, marginalized, or ignored in America’s past. Her most recent book is\u00a0Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn\u2019s Comrade<\/em>\u00a0(Yale UP \u2013 \u201cBlack Lives\u201d series, 2025), which was named an\u00a0\u201cOutstanding Academic Title\u201d in American Literature by CHOICE in 2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her research has been featured twice on the front page of the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, and she has been awarded Bode-Pearson Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Studies Association and\u00a0\u00a0the Tuckey Lifetime Achievement award by the Center for Mark Twain Studies. The American Studies Association created a new prize, the „Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies\u201d in 2019. She is a Founding Editor of the\u00a0Journal of Transnational American Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Half an Hour with\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0is a new transatlantic discussion series organized by the Association of German-American Centers (AGAC) (German: Verbund Deutsch-Amerikanischer Zentren (VDAZ))<\/a>. Once a month, we jointly invite audiences to a 30-minute conversation with experts who provide well-informed and concise insights into the United States and German-American relations. Whether focusing on current political developments, social trends, economic perspectives, or cultural insights, Half an Hour with\u2026 brings transatlantic issues directly to your home or office. Take the opportunity to meet engaging speakers, explore different viewpoints, and contribute your own questions to the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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