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Diplomas / Degrees

Ph.D., History and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University (2004)
M.Phil, History and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University (2003)
M.A., History and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University (1998)

Recent Courses

Approaches To Literacy In Childhood Education
Capstone II
Community,Schools And Society
Global And Societal Development And Conflict
Independent Study Civil Rights And Dr. King
Independent Study Grandparent Studies
Paradigms Of Knowing
S/T: Human Rights And Peace Studies: A Case Studies Approach
S/T: Local Community: Curriculum And Research Explorations
Social Studies & Critical Literacies In Childhood
Social Studies & Critical Literacies In Childhood Education
Social Studies And Critical Literacy In Childhood Education

Research Interests

Peace education; civil rights and education reform; ideology of U.S. foreign policy; historiography/movements of the 1960s.

Books

Mirra, C. (2008). Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon. New York: Palgrave.

Mirra, C. (2008). U.S. Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press.

Mirra, C. (2005). Enduring Freedom or Enduring War? Prospects and Costs of the New American Century. Washington: Maisonneuve Press.

Recent Articles

Mirra, C. (2008, 9). Revisiting the Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism. WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 11

Mirra. C. (2006, 4). Conscientious Objection in Operation Desert Storm. Peace Review, 18

Mirra, C. (2006, 1). Radical Historians and The Liberal Establishment: Staughton Lynd's Life with History. Left History, 11, 69-101

Mirra, C. (2005, 3). Guilt and Sacrifice in U.S. Warfare. Peace Review, 17

Mirra, C. (2003, 1). George W. Bush’s Theological Diplomacy. American Diplomacy, 3

Conference Presentations and Papers

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Mirra, C. (30 October 2009). Plenary session paper, Underreported Resistance: GI Dissent in the 1991 U.S.-Iraq War. Peace History Society Annual Conference, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC

Mirra, C. (17 October 2008). Commentator. Veterans' Oral Histories. Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburg, PA

Mirra, C. (28 March 2008). Commentator, History from the Bottom Up: Origins and Prospects. Organization of American Historians, New York, NY

Mirra, C. (05 January 2008). The New Winter Soldiers Redux. American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.

Mirra, C. (09 August 2007). The American Empire and Peace Education: A Pedagogical Intervention. Teachers College International Institute on Peace Education Symposium, United Nations Church Center, NY

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

Mirra, C. (2006). Join Us? Testimonies of Iraq War Veterans and Their Families. Historians Against the War, Pamphlet #5, Somerville, MA.