Faculty Speaker Series featuring Prof. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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04:00PM - 06:00PM
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The Stanford Club of Northern Nevada & the Sierra cordially invites you to a special afternoon with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, the Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities, Professor of English and Director of American Studies, and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford.
Listening to Silence, Seeing Absence: The Challenge of Reconstructing Chinese Railroad Workers' Lives
Chinese workers played an essential role in completing the western portion of the first transcontinental rail line, and in helping Leland Stanford acquire the immense fortune that he later used to found the University. What work did they perform? What experiences did they have in driving the line through the Sierras? What happened to them after the completion of the line? Learn about this international effort to recover their history from the co-directors of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford.
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and director of American Studies at Stanford, where she has taught since 2003. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of over forty books. Many of her pieces have focused on issues of race and racism in America, and on recovering previously silenced voices from the past. She is a past president of the American Studies Association, past chair of the Nonfiction Prose Division of the Modern Language Association and a founding editor of the Journal of Transnational American Studies.