Publications and Activities
Kirstein has written a book, Anglo over Bracero: The History of the Mexican Worker in the US from Roosevelt to Nixon (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates); ISBN 0-88247-442-1). His scholarship has been published by The Historian, Art in America, Situation Analysis, American Diplomacy, Journal of Mexican American History, Armed Forces & Society, and History News Network (HNN). Kirstein was honorably discharged from the US Army Reserves. Kirstein published a book chapter "Academic Freedom since 9/11" in Matthew Morgan, ed., The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape: The Day That Changed Everything (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). A recent publication is "Hiroshima and Spinning the Atom: America, Britain, and Canada Proclaim the Nuclear Age, August 6, 1945," The Historian, Winter 2009, 805-27. Kirstein spoke at the College of Complexes in Chicago on July 10, 2010 on "Remembering Howard Zinn: Giving Voice to the Voiceless." Using recently released FBI files, Kirstein has published an article for HNN, "The People’s Historian and the FBI Zinn Files." His review of Cary Nelson, No University is an Island appears in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, 2011. A review of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States appears in the current 2013 issue of Logos.
Kirstein appeared on the Kevin Barrett, Truth Jihad Radio show on the American Freedom Radio network Friday, March 11, 2011. It is broadcast from Madison, Wisconsin and explored the challenges to academic freedom and American Foreign Policy. He spoke at a teach-in at Northeastern Illinois University, April 26, 2011 on free speech and academic freedom: the event was endorsed by Noam Chomsky. He chaired and presented at a session, "Organizing for Academic Freedom," at the American Association of University Professors-Collective Bargaining Congress Midwest Regional Meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Chicago on Saturday, April 30, 2011. He presented a paper on November 12, 2011, "Shared Governance and Academic Freedom Under Siege: How Illinois Committee A Battles to Protect Both," at the American Association of University Professors Shared Governance Conference in Washington, D.C. Kirstein discussed academic freedom issues on Kevin Barrett's, "Truth Jihad," radio program on Monday, December 12, 2011. On April 15, 2012, he presented a scholarly paper, "Remembering the Atomic Genocide of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Politics of Hate, Geopolitical Realism and the Enduring Relevance of Gar Alperovitz," at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting at the Palmer House in Chicago. Kirstein published, “Free Speech, War and Academic Freedom,” in the online journal, Philosophers for Change (May 2012).Kirstein appears in Inside Higher Ed in a feature article written by Colleen Flaherty on DePaul University and several recent academic freedom cases in its December 18, 2012 issue.
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