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Ellen Schrecker
EDUCATIONPh.D. History, Harvard University, 1974 EMPLOYMENTAssistant to Full Professor, Yeshiva University, 1987-present Editor, Academe, 1998-2002 Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, 1996; The Union Institute, 1991-95 Lecturer, Department of History, Princeton University, 1985‑87 Program Officer, New York Council for the Humanities, 1984‑85 Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Department, New York University, 1983‑85 Instructor, New School for Social Research, 1982-83 Preceptor, Expository Writing, Harvard University, 1975‑81 PUBLICATIONS Books
Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism, ed., New Press, New York, 2004 Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, Little, Brown, New York, 1998; paperback edition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1999; Chinese edition, forthcoming The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents, Bedford Books, Boston, 1994, rev. ed. 2002 No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, Oxford University Press, New York, 1986 Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in the 1980s, Edited with Craig Kaplan, Praeger, New York, 1983 The Hired Money: The French Debt to the United States, 1917-1929, Arno Press, New York, 1979
Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook,
Harper and Row, New York, 1976 (2nd ed., 1987) Other MediaAmerican Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism (Audiocourse), Recorded Books, Prince Frederick, Md., 2004 Selected Recent Chapters and Articles"McCarthyism: Political Repression and the Fear of Communism," Social Research Vol. 71, No 3 (Fall 2004) with Maurice Isserman, “'Papers of a Dangerous Tendency': From Major Andre’s Boot to the Venona Files," in Schrecker, ed., Cold War Triumphalism "Stealing Secrets: Communism and Soviet Espionage in the 1940s, " North Carolina Law Review vol 82, #5 (June 2004): 101-47. "Communism and Soviet Espionage in the 1940s," North Carolina Law Review, vol 82, #5 (June 2004) "A Very Dangerous Course: Harry S. Truman and the Red Scare," in Harry's Farewell: Commentaries on the Historical Significance of the Truman Presidency, Richard S. Kirkendall, ed., University of Missouri Press, forthcoming "Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism," in Robert Cherny, William Issel, and Kerry Taylor, eds., Labor and the Cold War at the Grassroots, Rutgers University Press, forthcoming. "Soviet Espionage on American TV: The VENONA Story," Diplomatic History, Vol 27, no. 2 (Spring 2003), 279-82. "McCarthyism and the Red Scare," in Roy Rosenzweig and Jean-Christophe Agnew, The Blackwell Companion to Post-1945 America, Blackwell, forthcoming 2001 "Free Speech on Campus: Academic Freedom and the Corporations," in Thomas R. Hensley, ed., The Boundaries of Freedom of Expression and Order in American Democracy, Kent State University Press, forthcoming, spring 2001 "McCarthyism and Democracy," in David McCann and Barry Strauss, ed., War and Democracy: The Peloponnesian War and the Korean War, M.E. Sharpe, 2001 with Maurice Isserman, “The Right’s Cold War Revisionism,” The Nation, July 24/31, 2000 "McCarthy’s Ghosts: Anticommunism and American Labor," New Labor Forum, Spring/Summer, 1999 "Will Technology Make Academic Freedom Obsolete?" in Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis, Cary Nelson, ed. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997 "Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations during the McCarthy Era," Science & Society 60 (4) Winter 1996-1997 "Before the Rosenbergs: Espionage Scenarios in the Early Cold War" in Marjorie Garber and Rebecca Walkowitz, ed., Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case and the McCarthy Era, Routledge (1995) "McCarthyism and the Communist Party," in Michael Brown et al. eds., New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1993; reprinted in Andre Kaenel, ed., Anti-Communism and McCarthyism in the United States, Editions Messene, Paris, 1995 "McCarthyism and the Labor Movement: The Role of the State," in Steve Rosswurm, ed., The CIO's Left‑Led Unions, Rutgers U. Press, New Brunswick, 1992 "Introduction" to Records of the Subversive Activities Control Board, 1950‑1972,University Publications of America, Frederick, Md., 1989 "Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism," Journal of American History, June 1988 book and film reviews in American Historical Review, Diplomatic History, History of Education Quarterly, Isis, Journal of American History, Labor History, Labour/Le Travail, Monthly Review, The Nation, Pacific Historical Review, Political Science Quarterly, Science and Society, Women’s Review of Books, Journal of Cold War Studies, H-Net FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)Bill of Rights Defense Campaign, New York City, Speakers Bureau, 2003- Member, Review Panel, NEH Division of Public Programs, 2003- Visiting Scholar, History Department, New York University, 2002- Fellow, Society of American Historians, 2002 Member, Committee on Research, Scholarship and Academic Relations, Harry S. Truman Library Institute, 2001- Member: Executive Committee, Humanities Division, Yeshiva University, 1989‑2003, Chair, 2001-2003 , Acting Co-Chair, 2000, Acting Chair, 1999; Middle States Steering Committee, Yeshiva University, 1999-2002, chair, Faculty Development Workgroup; Honors Committee, Stern College for Women, 1999-present: Academic Standards Committee, Stern College, 1988‑1993; Curriculum Committee, Yeshiva College, 1990‑1994, 1999-2002 "Outstanding Academic Book, 1998" Choice Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, N.C., 1994‑1995 Member, 1995 Program Committee, Organization of American Historians Historical Consultant, (documentaries) (selected): "Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan,” Michael Epstein (PBS) producer, 2001-03 "The Chinatown Files," Amy Chen, producer, 1990-2001 "Truman," David Grubin, producer, 1995-97 "The Un‑Americans," Archie Barron, producer (BBC), 1992 Harry S. Truman Library, Research Fellowship, 1987 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society, 1987 Honorable Mention, Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1987 Bunting Institute Fellowship (Radcliffe College), 1977‑78 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1960‑61 SELECTED LECTURES AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS"Political Repression, Today and Yesterday," Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society) Fordham University, Bronx, NY, Feb. 2004 "McCarthyism," Conference on "Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses," New School University February 5-7, 2004 "The Historical Context," Conference on "The Patriot Act and the University," City University Faculty Conference, Hunter College-CUNY, New York City, November 2003 "Communism and Soviet Espionage," Conference on "Law, Loyalty, and Treason," University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2003 "'A Very Dangerous Course': Harry S. Truman and the Red Scare," Conference on "Harry's Farewell: A Conference on the Historical Significance of the Truman Presidency," Harry Truman Library Institute, Independence, Mo., July 2003 Panelist, "Science and Society: Academic Freedom vs. National Security," American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, April 2003 "'False Hopes': Neo-McCarthyism in a Time of Crisis," Salt of the Earth Conference, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, N.M., March 2003; Socialist Scholars Conference, Cooper Union, New York, NY, March 2003 Panelist, "The Cops at the Door: Surveillance, Repression, and Resistance," Conference on "Homeland Insecurity: Civil Liberties, Repression, and Citizenship in the 1950s", Smith College, January 2003 "Academic Freedom: A Historical Perspective,” University of South Florida, Tampa, Jan. 2002 Participant, "The Rosenberg Case Revisited," The New School, October 2001 Participant, Dialogue on the Cold War in Asia, University of Montana, Missoula, June 2001 "Silenced by Money: Intellectual Freedom in the Academic Marketplace,” Tenth Annual Symposium on Academic and Intellectual Freedom, University of Michigan, Oct. 2000 Keynote Address, “Beyond the Myths of McCarthyism,” Conference in Honor of Michael Heale, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, Great Britain, May 2000 "Free Speech on Campus: Academic Freedom and the Corporations,” Conference on Freedom of Expression, Kent State University, May 2000 "McCarthyism: the Myth and the Reality," Conference on McCarthyism in America, National Archives, Washington, DC, Feb. 2000 "Freedom of Expression in the Academy: McCarthy Era to Today," 1999 Graduate Council Colloquium, Wayne State University, Oct. 1999 "Political Tests for Professors," 50th Anniversity Retrospective on The University Loyalty Oath, University of California-Berkeley, Oct. 1999 "The Age of McCarthyism: Anticommunist Political Repression in Modern America," Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, May 1999 Keynote Address, Southwest Labor Studies Conference, San Francisco, April 1999 "A Lost Opportunity: McCarthyism and Intellectual Freedom in the Early Cold War," Invited Lecture, American Library Association, Washington, DC, June 1998 "Higher Education Today," Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, April 1998 Lecturer, United States Information Agency, Paris, Strasbourg, Tours, Bordeaux, and Toulouse, France, January 1996 "The Missing Voices: McCarthyism and American Political Culture," conference on "American Culture and the Cold War," University of Toledo, Toledo, April 1996 "McCarthyism and Democracy," Conference on "A Comparative Approach to War and Democracy," Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., June 1995 "On Using the FBI Files," Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 1994 "The Bride of Stalin: Gender and Anticommunism during the McCarthy Era," Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Vassar College, June 1993 "Before the Rosenbergs: Espionage Scenarios in the Early Cold War," Conference on "40 Years After: The Rosenberg Case and the McCarthy Era," Harvard, May 1993 "Criminalizing Communism," American Society for Legal History, Yale Law School, New Haven, October 1992 Inaugural Lecture, Frederic Ewen Center for Academic Freedom, Brooklyn College, November 1990 "The Communist Menace: Spies, Subversives, and Saboteurs," Conference on "Rethinking the Cold War," University of Wisconsin‑Madison, Nov. 1991 "Gerhart Eisler and the Making of the Communist Menace," Organization of American Historians, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1991 "The Taft‑Hartley Act and the Left‑Wing Unions," State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, March 1990 "McCarthyism and the Communist Party," Conference on 70 Years of American Communism, City University of New York, November 1989 "Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations during the McCarthy Era," Organization of American Historians, Reno, Nev., March 1988 CURRENT PROJECT"Political Repression -- American Style," book with Corey Robin, contract under consideration COURSES TAUGHT
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