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Laura Wittern-Keller
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of History
Areas of expertise:
Censorship; free speech
Censorship; free speech
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(518) 442-5429
Biography:
Laura Wittern-Keller is the author of Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981 (University Press of Kentucky, 2008) and co-author of The Miracle Case: Burstyn v. Wilson, 1952 (University of Kansas Press Landmarks in American Law Cases series, 2008). She is the recipient of the New York State Archives Researcher of the Year in 2007 and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Lecturer of the Year in 2006. Her research interests include deportation of suspected radicals during the Cold War. She received her master's degree from Penn State University and her doctorate from the University at Albany.
Laura Wittern-Keller is the author of Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981 (University Press of Kentucky, 2008) and co-author of The Miracle Case: Burstyn v. Wilson, 1952 (University of Kansas Press Landmarks in American Law Cases series, 2008). She is the recipient of the New York State Archives Researcher of the Year in 2007 and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Lecturer of the Year in 2006. Her research interests include deportation of suspected radicals during the Cold War. She received her master's degree from Penn State University and her doctorate from the University at Albany.
