Jordana Silverstein

Jordana Silverstein is a senior research fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. She has also been a visiting scholar at the ANU's Humanities Research Centre and a three-time judge of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Jordana has a History PhD and is the author of Anxious Histories (2015), on narrating the Holocaust, and co-editor of Refugee Journeys (2021). Her criticism and essays appear widely, including in The Conversation...See more

Jordana Silverstein is a senior research fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. She has also been a visiting scholar at the ANU's Humanities Research Centre and a three-time judge of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Jordana has a History PhD and is the author of Anxious Histories (2015), on narrating the Holocaust, and co-editor of Refugee Journeys (2021). Her criticism and essays appear widely, including in The Conversation and Overland , and she appears regularly in the media. See less