Dr Silverstein did his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees at the University of Cambridge (PhD 2002), followed by a 3-year British Academy post-doctoral fellowship there. He then moved to the University of Oxford, where he was first a lecturer in Islamic History (2005-7) and then a University lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations and Fellow of Queen's College (2007-2010). He joined KCL in 2011 as Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and the Abrahamic Religions. He is now part of the faculty of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department at Shalem College, Jerusalem.