Lyndsey Stonebridge, author portrait
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Lyndsey Stonebridge

Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent book is We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience, which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Award for Biography. She is featured in the PBS/American Masters documentary Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny as one of the leading authorities of Arendt and her writings. Stonebridge's previous books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster. She is currently working on a new book, Old Women: A History of Our Future (2027). She lives in London and France.
We Are Free to Change the World

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We Are Free to Change the World

Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Each May, we honor the stories, histories, and cultures of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Below is a selection of acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators to share with your students this month and throughout the year. Find our full collection of titles for Higher Education here.

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