Discussion Papers Series
Shirli Gilbert
Professor Shirli Gilbert is a lecturer at the University of Southhampton and the author of Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (Oxford University Press, 2005) as well as scholarly articles including “Songs Contest the Past: Music in KZ Sachsenhausen” in Contemporary European History (vol. 13, no. 3, 2004) and “Music as Historical Source: Social History and Musical Texts” in International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (vol. 36, no. 1, 2005).
She is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships including the Angus Macintyre Prize from Magdalen College, University of Oxford; Dean’s Medal from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and the South African Association of University Women Prize for the top female graduate.
Professor Gilbert received a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in music from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. with Distinction in music from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She was also the Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.