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He attended Washington University in St. Louis, studied under Howard Zinn at Boston University and received his doctorate from Saint Louis University. He has served as chair of the Department of History and Political Science and has won his university’s Teaching Excellence Award. He has debated Victor Davis Hanson online for Frontpagemag.com on the Iraq War and David Horowitz in Chicago on the Iraq War and academic freedom.
Kirstein is included in David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. His monograph, Anglo Over Bracero: The History of the Mexican Worker in the United States from Roosevelt to Nixon was nominated for the David D. Lloyd Prize at the Truman Library Institute. Professor Kirstein has published journal articles in The Historian, Art in America, Situation Analysis, American Diplomacy, Journal of Mexican American History, Armed Forces and Society, History News Network and The Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders. The NewYork Times, Weekly Standard, Arab News, Chicago Tribune, Gulf News, Chicago Sun-Times, Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon), and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have carried op-eds and letters.
His essay on academic freedom will appear in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars.
He is part of a multivolume study for Palgrave-McMillan Press on the significance of September 11 and will focus on academic freedom since that dramatic day in New York and Washington, DC. Kirstein is currently Vice President of the American Association of University Professor-Illinois Conference and has served as president of his university’s AAUP Chapter.
His blog was a major source of information and advocacy concerning the Norman G. Finkelstein case and was the first to reveal DePaul’s denial of tenure in this case.
Kirstein was inteviewed on Chicago Public Radio and InsideHigherEd.com on the Finkelstein case in which he described the issue of rhetorical and scholarly collegiality as a smoke screen for oppression.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Website: http://people.sxu.edu/~kirstein/,