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Laura Wittern-Keller
College of Arts and Sciences
Department:
History
Censorship; free speech
Campus phone: (518) 442-5429
Campus email: LWittern-keller@albany.edu
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 was named the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's 2006 Lecturer of the Year. 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.
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