Miriam Silverberg

Miriam Silverberg
Miriam Silverberg
Born	January 19, 1951; Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	March 16, 2008 (aged 57); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Historian
Awards	John K. Fairbank Prize (1990); Guggenheim Fellow (1993); ;
Academic background
Alma mater	American University; Georgetown University; University of Chicago; ;
Thesis	Changing song: the Marxist poetry of Nakano Shigeharu (1984)
Academic work
Discipline	History of Japan
Institutions	Hamilton College; University of California, Los Angeles; ;

Miriam Silverberg (January 19, 1951 – March 16, 2008) was an American historian. A 1993 Guggenheim Fellow, she was author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (1990) and Erotic Grotesque Nonsense (2007), winning the 1990 John K. Fairbank Prize for the former. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Women from 2000 to 2003.