Freedom Lab invites you to 2022 Award Ceremony of the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for Scholarship in Transnational American Studies

The International Committee of the American Studies Association is excited to announce the 2022 Award Ceremony of the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for Scholarship in Transnational American Studies. The event will take place on November 11, 2022 at 11am EST over zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/3443189585

Please join us in celebrating this year’s award-winner, Dr. Mahshid Mayar, on her monograph, Citizens & Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). Congratulations, no less, to Dr. Dario Fazzi, whose work, “Imperial Constraints: Labor and U.S. Military Bases in Italy, 1954-1979” (Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2021, 1-25) has been awarded an honorable mention!

Highlights of the event include a featured performance by the award-winning musician, Mahmoud ‘Mood’ Chouki, and a keynote by Professor Brian T. Edwards of Tulane University on “Global Port Cities: Imagining New Institutional Relationships.”

The music performance of this event is sponsored by HRC’s Freedom Lab.