Laura Wittern-Keller, Ph.D.

Department of History

University at Albany

Albany, NY 12222

LWittern@albany.edu

518-442-5429

 

Freedom of the Screen is available from the University Press of Kentucky. Click  here
 
 

The Miracle Case will be available from the University Press of Kansas in October. Click on the book for more information.

 

 

Courses Taught

 

Readings Seminar in Race & Immigration Policy

Constitutional History of the United States

Roosevelt to Reagan: U.S. Political History

Supreme Court Seminar

History of the United States to 1865

The Practice of History (historical methods)

The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties

 US History, 1865 to present

History of the American City

 

  

 

Honors and Awards

Interviews and Appearances
 

2007-NYS Archives Researcher of the Year

2006-UNC Wilmington Lecturer of the Year

2003-University at Albany distinguished dissertation award

2002-Sherry Penney Prize

2000-Phi Alpha Theta Prize

1999-2001--Larry J. Hackman residency (NYS Archives)

 

"The Miracle Case," Talking History archive (scroll down to The Miracle Case)

New Books in History interview

WXVU (NPR Cincinnati) interview

Freedom of the Screen on Mary Dudziak's Legal History Blog

 
Publications:

Books:

Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship,  University Press of Kentucky, 2008

The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court, Landmark Law Cases and American Society series, University Press of Kansas, October 2008 (coauthored with Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.)

Articles:

“Freedom of the Screen: Joseph Burstyn and The Miracle,” Spring 2002 New York Archives Magazine.

 

"Freedman v. Maryland," Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, 2008, CQ Press.

 

"Motion Picture Division," Encyclopedia of New York State, 2003, Syracuse University Press

 

Book Reviews:

Film & History book  review, The Cinema of Generation X, by Peter Hanson, volume 33.2, 2003.

 

 H-Net Book review, American Catholic Lay Movements and Trans-Atlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Period by Deirdre Moloney.

 

Journal of American History review of documentary Transforming America, vol. 92, no. 3 (December 2005), 1082-84.

 
   

 

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