PROF. CAROL SILVERMAN VITA January 2008- May 2014

RESEARCH HONORS AND AWARDS Alan Merriam Book Prize for Romani Routes, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2013. Faculty Excellence Award, University of Oregon, 2013, $25,000.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS FOR RESEARCH Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, Summer 2014, $5500 Senior Fellowship, Centre for Excellence in the Humanities, Sofia University, Spring 2014, $7000 Summer Stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty, CAS, University of Oregon, 2012, $5000 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010-2011, $35,000 Small Project Grant, Center for Intercultural Dialogue, Fall 2010, $500 Oregon Humanities Center, Research Fellowship, Fall 2010, course release $8000 Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society 2013, $200 Center for the Study of Women in Society, Research Grant, Winter 2009, course release $8000 Summer Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, 2009, $5000

PUBLICATIONS (all peer-reviewed; all sole-authored) in press Diasporic Ethnicity, Gender and Dance: Muslim Macedonian Roma in New York. In Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, ed. Anthony Shay, Oxford University Press. in press Wedding Music: A Forty-year Trajectory. In Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Meeting of North American and Bulgarian Scholars, 2012, eds. Anisava Msiltenova and Cynthia Vakareliyska, Sofia: Iztok-Zapad. submitted Macedonia, UNESCO, and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Challenging Fate of Teshkoto. Journal of Folklore Research, special issue on UNESCO, edited by Michael Foster and Lisa Gilman. submitted Romani Music: Theoretical Insights and European Policy Challenges. Romani Culture: Debates, ed. Elena Marusiakova, Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Book: 2012 Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Oxford University Press). (2014, paperback) Articles: 2014 Balkan Romani Culture, Humans Rights, and the State: Whose Heritage? In Cultural Heritage in Transit, ed. Deborah Kapchan, University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 125- 147. 2014 Negotiating the “Oriental:” Roma and the Political Economy of Representation in Bulgarian Popfolk, In Ottoman Intimacies, Balkan Musical Realities, eds. Aspasia Theodosiou, Panagiotis Poulos and Risto Pekka Pennanen. Finnish Institute, Athens, pp. 185-208. 2013 Global Balkan Gypsy Music: Issues of Migration, Appropriation, and Representation In The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism, eds. Simone Krüger and Ruxandra Trandafoiu. Routledge University Press, pp.185-208. 2

2012 Education, Agency, and Power among Macedonian Muslim Romani Women in New York City. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Symposium on Romani Feminisms) 38(1): 30-36. 2012 Producing Sexuality, Music, and Emotion: Gendered Balkan Romani Dilemmas, Etudes Tsiganes (special issue on Emotional Geographies of Roma) 44-45: 280-295. 2011 Gypsy Music, Hybridity and Appropriation: Balkan Dilemmas of Postmodernity. Ethnologia Balkanica vol.15: 15-32. 2011 Music, Emotion, and the “Other”: Balkan Roma and the Negotiation of Exoticism. In Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe, ed. Mark Steinberg and Valeria Sobol. Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 224-247. 2010 Queen of Gypsy Music: Esma Redžepova. City 14(6): 51-55. 2009 Music and Transnational Identity: The Life of Romani Saxophonist Yuri Yunakov. Džaniben (Czech Journal of Romani Studies) Winter 2009: 59-84. 2008 Transnational Chochek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani Dance. In Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performing, and Teaching, ed. Anthony Shay. Jefferson NC: McFarland Press, pp. 37-68. 2008 Fieldwork in . In Studying Peoples in the People's Democracies II; Socialist Era Anthropology in South-East Europe, eds. Vintila Miailescu, Ilia Iliev, and Slobodan Naumovic. Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 397-404.

PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, FESTIVAL BOOKLETS AND WEBSITES, LINER NOTES FOR RECORDINGS, REPRINTS (editorial board review) in press Romani-American Music. In Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, ed. Charles Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013 The Balkans as Cultural Crossroads. Playbilll, Lincoln Center White Light Festival, November 2013. 2012 Festival Romani, Portland OR, website materials: http://www.festivalromani.com/performersschedule.html 2010 East European Roma: Music, Politics, and Human Rights, program notes for the Black Sea Roma Festival, New York, Center for Traditional Music and Dance. 2008 Vyjednávání cikánství´. Situační strategie Romové a Cikáni, neznámí i známí. (Czech language translation of Negotiating Gypsiness: Strategy in Context). In Cikáni a Etnicita, ed. Marek Jakoubek. Prague, Czech Republic: Triton, pp. 25-47.

BOOK REVIEWS

2013 Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in , by Ana Hofman. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Slavic Review 72:1. 2008 Shared Musics and Minority Identities. Naila Ceribasic and Erica Haskell, eds. 2006. Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. Ethnomusicology 52(1):141-144. 27(3):782-3.

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PAPERS DELIVERED AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES “Global Balkan Gypsy Music: Romani Negotiations with Issues of Representation” Association for the Study of Nationalities; organized panel: Roma: Negotiating Exclusions, April 2014. “Negotiating Gender, Selecting Traditions: Romani Macedonian Women in NYC,” American Folklore Society, Providence RI, October 2013. “Romani Music: Theoretical Challenges and Policy Insights” European Dimension of Roma Culture: Scientific and Political Discourses, Council of Europe and European Commission (invited), Marseille FR, September 2013. “Culture as Defense/Culture as Explanation: Kalderash Roma and American Law,” Gypsy Lore Society, Glasgow UK, September 2013. “Interrogating Hybridity: Romani Dilemmas of Global Balkan ‘Gypsy’ Music,” (Self) Representations: Romani Music and Culture in Diaspora, New York University, May 2013. “Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Representation, and Appropriation,” (invited keynote) Western States Folklore Society, San Diego CA, April 2013. “Class, Race, and Cultural Display: Roma in Macedonia during Late Socialism and Postsocialism,“ conference: Bringing Class Back In: The Dynamics of Social Change in (Post) Yugoslavia,” Zagreb, , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, December, 2012 (invited). “DJs, Club Culture, and Appropriation: Crossing Borders with Global Gypsy Music,” and organizer of panel “Contemporary Roma (Gypsies) Across Borders: Politics, Performance, and Displacement,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 2012. “Balkan Beats DJs and Club Culture: Producing Gypsy Music,” Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans, November 2012. “Macedonia, UNESCO, and Cultural Heritage: National and Ethnic Cooperation vs. Conflict,” American Folklore Society, New Orleans, October 2012. “DJs and Balkan Gypsy Music: Balkan Beats, Brass, and Authenticity in Clubs and Festivals,” Gypsy Lore Society, Istanbul, , September 2012. “Balkan Gypsy Music: Issues of Globalization and Appropriation,” Russian and East European Arts, World Stage, University of Oregon, May 2012. “Wedding Music: A Thirty Year Trajectory,” Bulgarian Studies Association Conference, University of Oregon, June 2012. “Roma and the Cultural Politics of Representation in Chalga,” (invited) Music and Marginality in the Balkans: The Edginess of Edges, University of Chicago, January 2012 “Western European DJs and the ‘Fantasy Gypsy’: Club Culture and the Globalization of Balkan Romani Music,” Inaugural Romani Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, November 2011 “Gypsy Music without Roma? Imagining the Balkans in Clubs and Festivals,” Society for Ethnomusicology, Philadelphia, November 2011. “Global Balkan Gypsy Music: Contested Commodity/Appropriated Culture,” American Folklore Society, Bloomington, October 2011. “Global Gypsy Music: Issues of Appropriation and Representation,” Gypsy Lore Society, Graz, Austria, September 2011. “Gypsy Music, Hybridity and Appropriation: Balkan Dilemmas of Post-modernity” International Association for Southeast Anthropology, Regensburg, Germany, April 2011 (invited keynote). “Embodied Performance: Diaspora Balkan Romani Music and Dance,” International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Lisbon, April 2011. “Producing the Transgendered Gypsy in Bulgarian Pop/folk Music Videos: The Case of Azis,” 4

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2010. “Balkan Romani Music: State and Market Exclusions and Appropriations,” Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles November 2010. “Legitimating Romani Culture: Multiculturalism and Xenophobia in Current European Contexts,” American Folklore Society, Nashville TN, October 2010. “Negotiating the ‘Oriental:’ Roma and the Political Economy of Representation in Bulgarian Popfolk,” The Ottoman Past in the Balkan Present: Music and Mediation Conference, Athens, October 2010. “Exotics at Home: Seduction, Display and the European Romani Culture Route,” Tourism and Seductions of Difference Conference, Lisbon, September 2010. “Balkan Romani Music: State and Market Exclusions and Appropriations,” Gypsy Lore Society, Lisbon, September 2010. “Representation, Sexuality, and Multiculturalism: Esma Redžepova as Mediator and Collaborator” International Council for Traditional Music, Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, April 2010. “Balkan Music in Transit: Production, Consumption and Appropriation,” Romani Mobilities, Invited Plenary, Oxford University, Refugee Studies Center, UK, January 2010. “Artful Politics of Identity: The Life of ‘Gypsy Queen’ Esma Redžepova,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 2009. “Unruly, Disorderly ‘Others’: Balkan Roma and Exclusions from the Nation," American Folklore Society, Boise, ID October 2009. “Balkan Romani Music in Diaspora: Markets, Performers and Genres,” Invited conference “Immigrant Cultural Production” University of Florida, Gainesville, October 2009. “Activism and Scholarship: Challenges for an Anthropologist in a Romani NGO,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2009. “Romani Music and European Politics: Dilemmas of Activism and Representation,” Conference on the Discrimination and Persecution of Roma, Sinti and Travellers, Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Stockholm University, March 2009 (invited). “Gender, Race, and Family: Issues of Education and Sexuality among Macedonian Romani Migrants in New York City,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 2008. “Gender, Collaboration, and Representation: The Life of ‘Gypsy Queen’ Esma Redzepova,” Society for Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, November 2008. “Representation, Sexuality and Multiculturalism: 'Gypsy Queen' Esma Redzepova as Mediator and Collaborator,” Gypsy Lore Society, Washington DC, August 2008. "Music, Nationalism, and Revivals: the Role of Romani Music," Gorgy Ranki Symposium on Folk Music Revival and the Dance-House Movement in Hungary, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 2008 (invited). "Music, Emotion, and the 'Other': Balkan Roma and the Negotiation of Exoticism," Fisher Forum: Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, June 2008 (invited).

INVITED GUEST LECTURES “Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Representation and Appropriation,” New York University Department of Performance Studies, April 2014. 5

“Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Representation and Appropriation,” University of Washington, Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Department of Anthropology, February 2014. “Health and Illness Beliefs among Roma in the Northwest,” Providence/St. Vincent’s Hospital Diversity Program, January 2014. “Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Representation and Appropriation,” University of Pittsburg, Departments of Music, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and the Center for Russian and East European Studies, November 2013. “Roma/Gypsies: Stereotypes and Realities,” Summer Institute for Teachers, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies, University of California Berkeley, July 2013. “Global Balkan Romani Music,” Folk Dance Center, San Diego CA, April 2013. “Global Gypsy: Romani Music, Representation and Appropriation,” Centre for Southeast European Studies, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria, December 2012. “Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Representation and Appropriation,” Croatian Ethnological Society, December 2012. “Challenges of Transnational Music Research: Roma and Cultural Politics in Diaspora,” Croatian Academy of Music, December 2012. “Challenges of Transnational Music Research: Roma and Cultural Politics in Diaspora,” Institute of Musicology, Art University of Graz, Austria, December 2012. “Romani Music and World Markets,” Balkanalia Workshop, Corbett OR, August 2012. “Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora,” University of California, Los Angeles, May 2012 “Global Gypsy: Romani Music, Representation and Appropriation,” Northwestern University, Evanston, January 2012 “Global Gypsy: Romani Music in Circulation,” Western Washington University, Vancouver, January 2012 “Balkan Romani Music: Diaspora Issues, “ keynote for Opre! A Symposium on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures, New York University, November 2011. “Balkan Gypsy Music between Local and Global,” Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Arts Department for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities, Ljubljana, September 2011. “Balkan Gypsy Music: Issues of Globalization,” Goethe University Frankfurt, April 2011. “ Global Gypsy: Patronage, Representation, and Appropriation in World Music,” Oregon Center for the Humanities, March 2011. “Balkan Gypsy Music on the World Stage: Cultural Politics and the Challenges of Representation,” Folklore Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley, January 2011. “Transnational Identities: Yuri Yunakov, a Bulgarian/Turkish/Romani/American Musician,” American Research Center, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2010. “Cultural Politics of Balkan Romani Music: Dilemmas of State and Market,” Ethnology Department, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 2009. “Roma, Racism and Rights: Gypsies in the New Europe,” panel member, Romani Studies Platform, Sodertorns University, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2009. “Challenges of Identity: Balkan Roma and World Music Festivals,” The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2009. “Romani Music in Film” program organizer and speaker, Herdeljezi Festival, Sebastopol CA, May 2009 and 2010. “Romani Music and Activism: Challenges and Prospects,” panel organizer and speaker, 6

Herdeljezi Festival, Sebastopol CA, May 2008.

STATE AND NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Member, Board of Directors, Gypsy Lore Society (elected), 2012-. Reviewer, Gypsy Lore Society student paper prize committee, 2012-2014. Roundtable Discussion Leader, Performative Approaches to European Cultures, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2013. Co-organizer (with Center for Traditional Music and Dance) visit of Orkestar Kočani from Macedonia, April 2013. Member, Board of Directors, Romani Music Initiative, New York University, 2011- Member, Board of Directors, Voice of Roma NGO (non-governmental organization), September 2002-. Editorial Board Member: Journal of World Popular Music, 2012-; Western Folklore, 2009-. Member, Planning Committee, Bulgarian Studies Association Joint Meeting, 2010- 2012.

Peer Reviewer: University of Michigan Press; Berghahn Press; Continuum Press; Indiana University Press; Harvard University Press; Romani Studies; Journal of Folklore Research; Cultural Anthropology; American Anthropologist; Ethnomusicology; Textual Studies; Slavic Review; Ethnologia Europaea; British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Ethnologia Balkanica, Television and Media Studies; European Review of History, Balkanistica, Cultural Dynamics, Women’s Studies International Forum, Romani Studies, International Council for Traditional Music Yearbook.

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COMMITTEES Member, Selections Committee for CAS Assoc, Dean of Social Sciences, Spring 2014. Head, Search Committee for Ombuds Officer (national search), 2013-2014. Member, Board of Advisors, Oregon Humanities Center 2012- Faculty Advisory Council (elected) 2011- 2013. Member, Summer NEH Awards selection committee, 2010. Member, Heads’ Advisory Group to the Dean, 2009- 2010. Member, Russian and East European Studies Committee,1980- present. Member, Travel Grants Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2010.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY SERVICE Member, Promotion Committee for Phil Scher, 2013 Head, 2007-2010; 2011-2013.

FOLKLORE PROGRAM SERVICE Member, Core faculty committee (oversees admissions, programs, and curriculum), 1980-present.

GRADUATE ADVISING Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee: Angela Montague, Bryce Peake (2009-2011), Jen Erickson (2010), Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee: UO Anthropology: Rupa Pillai, Tami Hill (2009) 7

Other Departments and Universities: Diana Budur, (Princeton University, Anthropology), Alexander Markovic (University of Illinois, Chicago, Anthropology), Danielle Von Dobben (University of Arizona, Anthropology), Lynne Gardner-Allers (UO Critical Studies in Education); Jekatyerina Dunajeva (UO Political Science), Eva Szerfozo (UO Romance Languages); Aleksandra Markovic (University of Amsterdam, Music and Anthropology, External Examiner, 2013); Alan Aston-Smith (Birkbeck University, London, Cultural Studies, External Examiner, 2013), Amarah Niazi (Oregon State University, Anthropology 2009-2011), Angela Kocze (Central European University, Budapest, Gender Studies, 2009-2011)

Chair, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committee: Bryce Peake (2010-2011), Angela Montague (2010)

Member, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committee: Rupa Pillai (2012), Georg Pulay (Central European University, Budapest, Anthropology, 2008)

MA Advisor (theses supervised): Anthropology: Michael Duron (2008-09), Angela Montague (2009) Other UO Departments: Almir Methadzovic (Russian and East European Studies, 2012); Eneida Alimanova (Conflict and Resolution, 2011)

MA Committee Member: Antonija Krizanac (Historic Preservation); Elena Rodina (2010, Russian and East European Studies)

MA Folklore Advisor and Committee Chair or Member (including theses/projects supervision): Julianne Meyer, Abby Grewatz (2013), Caroline McNabb (2011), Kelly Totten (2009), Mary Cortney McIntyre (2009), Jen Furl (2009)

UNDERGRADUATE THESES ADVISING Hannah Schmitz (International Studies, Honors), Evan Zajdel (University of Pittsburg, 2014)

INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL THESES ADVISING Sarah Applebaum, 2009

TEACHING ANTH 314 (W2008): Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective, 119 students ANTH 315 (Sp2008): Gender, Folklore, and Inequality, 118 students ANTH 419/519 (Sp 2009): Performance, Politics and Folklore, 18 students ANTH 315 (W2010): Gender, Folklore, and Inequality 135 students ANTH 611 (W2012): Ethnographic Research Methods, 20 students ANTH 430/530 (W2012) Balkan Society and Folklore, 30+5 students) ANTH 424/524 (Sp2012) Feminist Methods in Anthropology (Overload: co-taught with Moss and Moreno (professor on record), 20 students ANTH 611 (W2013): Ethnographic Research Methods, 20 students ANTH 429/529 (W2013) Jewish Folklore and Ethnography, 34+3 students ANTH 688 (F2013) Social Theory, 12 students 8

ANTH 419/519 (W2014): Performance, Politics and Folklore, 4+2 students ANTH 315 (W2014) Gender, Folklore, and Inequality, 80 students

MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES (about my research and performance, selected) Interview with Kate Willson for story about Northwest Roma, Willamette Week, in press, May 2014. Interviewed by Simina Mistreanu in "Roma minority has special sensitivities, health-related beliefs, professor, doctors say" February 1, 2014, Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/02/roma_minority_has_special_sens.html Interviewed by Nina Strohlic about American Roma for Daily Beast Story, December 2013: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/22/american-gypsies-are-a-persecuted- minority-that-is-starting-to-fight-back.html Featured guest on “Today” news magazine show “Roma in Europe” produced by China International in Beijing, October 29, 2013, 60 minute panel discussion with a French and a Hungarian journalist. http://english.cri.cn/8706/2013/10/29/2861s794722.htm Interview with Mirela Iverac for The World (BBC), Balkan Music Thrives at Catskill Mountains Camp, August 19, 2013 http://www.theworld.org/2013/08/balkan-music-catskills/ Interview about Romani Routes on “Imagine Action” on KRFC Fort Collins CO Public Radio, March 19, 2013. “Loved for their Music, Hated as a People: New Book Aims to De-exoticize an Ethnic Minority,” Cascade (Fall 2012) p. 20; http://cascade.uoregon.edu/fall2012/social- sciences/loved-for-music/ ‘“Romani Routes’ Author Strives to Change Perceptions" by Serena Markstrom. Register Guard, June 4, 2012, pp. 1-2. http://www.registerguard.com/web/livinglifestyles/28149215- 41/romani-silverman-music-book-research.html.csp Interview with Carol Silverman, News at Noon with Trip Sommer, KLCC radio, June 5, 2012. “University Professor Shows Folklore is More than Just Fairy Tales,” by Branden Andersen, Oregon Daily Emerald, June 7, 2012. http://dailyemerald.com/2012/06/07/folklore-more-than- just-fairy-tales/ “UO anthropologist, in new book, details the love-hate status of Europe's Roma,” by Jim Barstow. http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2012/5/uo-anthropologist-new- book-details-love-hate-status-europes-roma Interview with Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2011, in “Accompanying Wanderers at Heart From Jazz to Hip-Hop, New York Gypsy Music Festival Showcases Acts Honoring the Musical Range of the Roma People,” by Tad Hendrickson. Interviews with Nina Strohlic in "Unraveling the Gypsy Myth" Ethos (UO School of Journalism), January 2011 with 4 photographs, http://ethosmagonline.com/archives/8502 "Pulse of the Planet," four broadcasts with interviews on Roma, aired on many public radio stations nationally, pulseplanet.com, National Geographic Society, January 2011. Interview by Radio 4 BBC for documentary “Serbian trumpet,” aired August 2010, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tj82f. “Roma, Music and Human Rights,” interviews for “Brasslands,” film on Zlatne Uste Band, Meerkat Media Collective, August 2010. “Esma Redzepova” interview with Illya Marritz for New York Public Radio, July 8, 2009, later used for NPR’s “50 Great Voices.”

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PERFORMANCE Concerts (selected): Veselo Festival, Eugene, February 2008 Herdeljezi Festival, Voice of Roma, Sebastopol, CA, 2008, 2009 Russian and East European Arts, World Stage, University of Oregon, May 2012 Bulgarian Studies Association Conference Banquet, University of Oregon, June 2012 Corvallis Folklore Society, February 2013 Benefit for Eugene Symphony, April 2013 Benefit, “Podkrepa” Bulgarian Cultural Center, Portland, February 2014 Balkan Night Northwest, Bulgari Band, Seattle, March 2014

Teaching of Balkan Music: I regularly teach Balkan singing in workshops, seminars, and master classes. Since 2008 I have taught at the Balkan Music and Dance Workshops in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon, sponsored by the East European Folklife Center. Invitations to teach include workshops for the Carpathian Ensemble, University of Pittsburgh, PA, and workshops at the University of California, Los Angeles, and for Voice of Roma in Sebastopol CA.