Biography
James J. Fisher is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. His work focuses on listening and dialogue as civic, educational, and peacebuilding practices, with particular attention to how people learn across difference in historical and contemporary global contexts. His scholarship engages questions of civic life, education, and peacebuilding, with a regional emphasis on West African and Atlantic histories.
James recently completed his Ph.D. in History at Ohio University, where his research examined the intersections of education policy, governance, and nation-building in West Africa. His publications have appeared in Arts, the International Journal of Listening, the Wilson Center's Africa Up Close and Africa Year in Review, and the London School of Economics' American Politics & Policy and Africa@LSE. His work has also been featured in outlets such as TuftsNow and NPR's All Things Considered.
An educator and practitioner with more than a decade of teaching experience, James has taught and guest lectured in the Civic Studies program and Music Department at Tufts University, as well as at institutions across the Midwest and New England. His pedagogical and practitioner work centers dialogic approaches, listening, and the co-creation of knowledge in classrooms, communities, and policy-oriented settings in the United States and West Africa.
More about his work can be found at www.jamesjfisher.com.
James recently completed his Ph.D. in History at Ohio University, where his research examined the intersections of education policy, governance, and nation-building in West Africa. His publications have appeared in Arts, the International Journal of Listening, the Wilson Center's Africa Up Close and Africa Year in Review, and the London School of Economics' American Politics & Policy and Africa@LSE. His work has also been featured in outlets such as TuftsNow and NPR's All Things Considered.
An educator and practitioner with more than a decade of teaching experience, James has taught and guest lectured in the Civic Studies program and Music Department at Tufts University, as well as at institutions across the Midwest and New England. His pedagogical and practitioner work centers dialogic approaches, listening, and the co-creation of knowledge in classrooms, communities, and policy-oriented settings in the United States and West Africa.
More about his work can be found at www.jamesjfisher.com.