About
Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of American immigration and ethnic history, with a focus on Jewish American gender identity. 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. In addition to research and teaching, she has experience curating museum exhibits, developing curricula and teaching guides, leading campus-wide discussions on antisemitism and identity, and 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. She previously served as Academic Director at the Center for Jewish Hisotry in New York City.
Publications
Carrying a Big Schtick: American Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2023.
“Making a Jewish Case for Ferenginar: Redeeming Star Trek’s Worst Archetypes,” in Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, edited by Valerie Frankel, 131-150. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.
“Husky Jewish Boys”: The Jewish Defense League and the Project of Jewish American Masculinity,” Journal of Jewish Identities, Volume 15, no. 2 (July 2022): 135-151.
“Widespread Admiration for Volodymyr Zelensky Could Upend Stereotypes About Jewish Men.” Made by History, Washington Post (March 22, 2022)
“Donald Trump And Masculinity As Motivator.” History Matters Blog, University of Sheffield, Department of History (November 3, 2020)
Affiliation(s)
- Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Field(s) of Study
- 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.
