Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber
Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber is a professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs at The City College of New York, also serving as director of Strategic Initiatives at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. She is on the Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and has authored several award-winning books, including Everyday Revolutionaries (2011) and After Stories (2022), which examines the experiences of the 1.5 insurgent generation in postwar El Salvador. Lotti is a co-editor of Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua (2023), focusing on the university as a site of resistance. Her research appears in various academic journals, and she is a co-PI on a National Science Foundation ADVANCE award aimed at promoting inclusion and diversity in STEM fields. Additionally, she received a First Prize in Poetry from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and contributed to the El Mozote Massacre case.