Jordana Silverstein

Dr Jordana Silverstein is a historian and writer based at the University of Melbourne in Naarm. She is the author of Cruel Care: A History of Children At Our Borders (Monash Uni Publishing, 2023), which was shortlisted in the Non-Fiction category in the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, and of Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Berghahn, 2015). And she is the co-editor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (Vallentine Mitchell, 2016) and Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance (ANU Press, 2021). Jordana was awarded the 2021 Marian Quartly Prize for best article published in History Australia in 2020 and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at ANU. Her writing spans academic and general audience outlets, including Overland, The Conversation and Crikey. 

On Mentorship:

I'm excited to have this chance to mentor someone. Mentoring provides an opportunity to create community: we will come together to grow, learn, build confidence, and navigate the world of writing and publishing, in order to get urgent words and ideas out to spaces where they can be read. I'm keen to mentor non-fiction writers who use their words to effect change; who are anti-racist, self-reflective, and dedicated to engaging with others; who feel passionately; and who want to be brave.