Shayna Silverstein
Shayna Silverstein is an assistant professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Her research
examines the politics and aesthetics of sound and movement in the contemporary Middle East, with a focus on Syria. Her recent publications include essays in Music & Politics, Remapping Sound Studies (Duke Press), Punk Ethnography (Wesleyan Press), Islam and Popular Culture (University of Texas Press), and an audiography in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image. Her current book project analyzes body, performance, and culture in prewar and wartime Syria through an ethnography of popular Syrian dance music. Her research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Buffett Institute at Northwestern University.