Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of Jewish America, the Managing Director the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. She has served in various institutions as professor of history, museum exhibit curator, and curricula consultant/developer. She is the co-creator of JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience, a comics and pop culture convention celebrating diverse Jewish themes, characters, and narratives in sequential art.
Her First book, Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century was released from Wayne State University Press in May, 2024. Her areas of research interest and specialization include American immigration and ethnicity, modern Jewish history, gender and antisemitism, Holocaust memory and representation in pop culture, masculinity, history of Irish conflict, and American Jewish acculturation. She received her B.F.A. in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2007, her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2009, and her Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University in 2019. |
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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