Shayna M. Silverstein

Shayna M. Silverstein is assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies and faculty member of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Northwestern University. Silverstein's teaching and scholarship broadly examine the politics and aesthetics of sound, movement and performance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultural production. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars and the Fulbright Program, as well as the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and Buffet Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University. Silverstein's Scholarly work includes an award-winning essay in the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies as well as articles in Performance Matters, Remapping Sound Studies, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Lateral, and an audiography in [in] Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in History from Yale University.