Carol T. Silverman  (Professor) (B.A., 1972, CUNY-City College; M.A.,1974, Ph.D., 1979, University of Pennsylvania) is a cultural anthropologist and folklorist who has been involved with Balkan music and culture for over 20 years as a researcher, teacher, activist, and performer. Focusing on Bulgaria and Macedonia, she has investigated the relationship among politics, ethnicity, ritual, and gender. She is now investigating the phenomenon of "Gypsy" music in
relation to the negotiation of identities in the world music market. Her book Performing Diaspora: Cultural Politics of Balkan Romani Music is in preparation with Oxford University Press with an accompanying website. Among her many articles and book chapters about Balkan folklore and Romani (Gypsy) communities in the U.S. and abroad are Trafficking in the Exotic with "Gypsy" Music: Balkan Roma, Cosmopolitanism, and "World Music" Festivals, in Donna Buchanan (ed.),
Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse (Scarecrow Press 2007); Researcher, Advocate, Friend: An American Fieldworker among Balkan Roma in H. De Soto and N. Dudwick (eds.); Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists in Postsocialist Societies (University of Wisconsin Press 2000); The Gender of the Profession: Music, Dance, and Reputation Among Balkan Muslim Romani Women in Tullia Magrini (ed.), Gender and Music in the Mediterranean (University of Chicago Press 2003).  In 1996, Dr. Silverman was the recipient of a university award for Distinguished Teaching. She teaches courses on the Balkans, Jewish folklore, postmodernism, ethnography, feminism, and performative theories of culture.  Contact information: (541) 346-5114.

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