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First Name
Miriam Eve
Last Name
Mora
Country
United States
State
NY
Affiliation
Center for Jewish History
Website URL
https://www.miriamevemora.com/
Keywords
Jewish History, American Immigration and Ethnic History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Collective Memory, History of Masculinity, Irish History, Jewish Gender, Military History, American History, Modern Europe, European Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
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About Me

Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of Jewish America, the Director of Academic and Public Programs at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, and professor of history at various institutions in and around New York City (currently teaching at the University at Albany, SUNY).  She is also 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.  Dr. Mora was also the creator and managing curator of the Museum and Laboratory of the Jewish Comics Experience exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in 2023.

Her First book, Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century will be released from Wayne State University Press on the 21st of 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.

Recent Publications

Carrying a Big Schtick: American Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century, Wayne State University press, 2024.

“The Jewish Case for Ferenginar: Redeeming Star Trek’s Worst Archetypes,” in Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, edited by Valerie Frankel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022).

“Husky Jewish Boys”: The Jewish Defense League and the Project of Jewish American Masculinity,” Journal of Jewish Identities, July 2022.

“‘Standing Up To Russian Aggression Really Brings Out His Eyes’: Zelenskyy Thirst-Trapping,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion: Blog (April, 2022) https://www.fsrinc.org/standing-up-to-russian-aggression-really-brings-out-his-eyes-zelenskyy-thirst-trapping/

“Widespread Admiration for Volodymyr Zelensky Could Upend Stereotypes About Jewish Men.”  Made by History, Washington Post (March 22, 2022) https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/22/our-newfound-love-volodymyr-zelensky-could-upend-stereotypes-about-jewish-men/

“Revivifying Virility: Attempts to Remedy Black and Jewish Male Stereotypes During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s,” G’vanim: The Academic Journal of the Academy for Jewish Religion 11 (2020-2021): 29-46.

“Donald Trump And Masculinity As Motivator.”  History Matters Blog, University of Sheffield, Department of History (November 3, 2020)  http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/donald-trump-and-masculinity-as-motivator/

“My Reflections on Anne Frank” (Student workbook, teacher’s guide, and supplementary materials.) Farmington Hills, MI: Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus. ISBN: 978-0-9845213-4-0

Media Coverage
https://www.miriamevemora.com/in-the-news.html
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Genocide, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Material Culture, Migration & Immigration, Race, Religion, Sexuality, World War I, World War II