Lisa Gilman is Professor of Folklore and Director of the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University, former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore, and former Fellow with the Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She published The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi (Temple University Press 2011), My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (2016), the co-authored Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork Methods Handbook (Indiana University Press 2019), and co-edited Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Ohio University Press 2019) and UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Indiana University Press 2015). She produced the documentary Grounds for Resistance and the Dzaleka Art Project.