Harvey Fireside

After teaching 32 years at N. Y. Institute of Technology, Ithaca College and Cornell University, I have turned to writing nonfiction for Young Adults. Five of these books have been about Supreme Court cases, the Constitution and refugees. A sixth will describe the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi war criminals in 1945. I am now a visiting fellow at Cornell's Peace Studies Program.

My writing reflects my community activism. Locally, I have been involved in the work of Amnesty International, the Bosnian Student Project, the Border Fund (for Central American refugees), and teaching English and citizenship to immigrants. My scholarly articles dealt with the Russian human rights movement. I have also published books on the Russian Orthodox Church and on Soviet psychiatry as a tool for repressing dissent.