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Lisa Gilman

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Professional affiliation

Professor, George Mason University
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Expertise

  • Gender
  • Migration
  • Society and Culture
  • Folklore
  • Refugees

Wilson Center Projects

My Culture, My Survival: Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees

Full Biography

Lisa Gilman is Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore, and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. She is currently working on 鈥淢y Culture, My Survival: Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees,鈥 a multisite global project on agency, creativity, and entrepreneurship of displaced peoples (Uyghurs in France, Syrians in T眉rkiye, several groups in the U.S., and Rwandans, Burundians, and Congolese in Malawi). In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, her monographs include Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork Methods Handbook (with John Fenn), My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi, and the co-edited volumes Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent and UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage. She produced the documentary Grounds for Resistance and , a collaboratively produced and community-based website documenting the arts in a Malawian refugee camp.

Major Publications

  • The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi
  • My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage