Professor Dr. Lisa Silvestri

Biography

Lisa Silvestri likes to think, write, and teach about war, peace, politics, social justice, digital culture, democracy, and civic life. She has contributed to popular outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, and has spoken at events including the 92nd Street Y and the South by Southwest Festival. Her scholarship appears in journals like New Media & Society, Memory Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Silvestri is the author of the book 'Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone,' which won the James W. Carey Media Research Award in 2016 for her pioneering cultural approaches to the study of media. In 2017, she received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support her community-based initiative, Telling War, which helps to surface and inspire veteran voices across a variety of storytelling forms. Her latest book, 'Peace by Peace: Risking Public Action, Creating Social Change,' is an uplifting personal exploration of peace through artful, mischievous, life-giving civic practice.

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