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Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of American immigration and ethnic history. She is 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, comics history, masculinity, 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. 

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.