BTW, there is a curriculum vitae of Kirstein on the web listing his publications.
I suspect that his professional standing is somewhat tenuous.
(1) He has only published one book in 28 years as a professor - and that lone book was published 24 years ago.
(2) He has only published 20 professional papers in his career - and only nine in the past 16 years. That's not too impressive - many historians have published 50-60 professional papers in that time span. Only three papers of his in his 28 year career have deemed worthy of anthologizing.
He has published only 14 other articles, and 5 of them were letters or op/ed pieces to local newspapers.
All in all, this guy is an extremely unimpressive academic lightweight who has produced no work of any distinction. His work seems to focus again and again on two narrowly defined areas: the history of nuclear museums (?!?) and the anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960s. Not only does he rarely publish, he has done no substantially new research since 1986, it would appear. My guess is that he won tenure in 1986 and has been slacking off ever since.
If we can show his boss than the tiny, inadequate amount of work he's done in the past 16 years is either flawed, concocted or plagiarized - there would be a very strong case for firing him for gross incompetence.
I am a part-time historian, just occasionally writing articles and submitting them to university reviews for publication -- and I have published TWO articles and co-edited one BOOK in the past 20 years. That's while working a full time job in another field, as well as serving as an adjunct professor at my alma mater.
(I know the difference between "reign" and "rain", too. Maybe he WISHES he could reign.) :-D
AAUP (American Association of University Professors) is the guardian organization for tenure, founded by John Dewey himself.
Were you able to find where he got his degrees? It's not listed on his CV.