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Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of American immigration and ethnic history, currently serving as the Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan.
Her areas of research interest and specialization include modern Jewish history, gender and antisemitism, genocide studies, Holocaust memory and representation in pop culture, masculinity, history of Irish conflict, and American Jewish acculturation. Her first book, Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century was released from Wayne State University Press in 2024 and received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. She is also currently the lead historian for the Jewish American curricular project as a part of the National History Day “Inclusive History Initiative.” In addition to research and teaching, she has curated museum exhibits, developed curricula and teaching guides, lead campus-wide discussions on antisemitism and identity, and co-created JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience, a comics and pop culture convention celebrating diverse Jewish themes, characters, and narratives in sequential art. She has taught at various academic institutions, served as Historian in Residence for the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society, and as the Academic Director at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. She previously earned her B.F.A. in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University. |
Featured Publications
"Making a Jewish Case for Ferenginar: Redeeming Star Trek's Worst Archetypes"Chapter in recent edited volume: Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream
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Forthcoming Book:
Coming Soon!!
Carrying a Big Schtick: American Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century, Wayne State University Press, May 21, 2024. |
“Husky Jewish Boys”: The Jewish Defense League and the Project of Jewish American
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