Honors and Awards

Interviews and Appearances

2003-University at Albany distinguished dissertation award

2002-Sherry Penney Prize

2000-Phi Alpha Theta Prize

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

Wittern-Keller curriculum vitae

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

New Books in History interview on Freedom of the Screen

New Books in History interview on The Miracle Case

WXVU (NPR Cincinnati) interview

"Cinematic Liberty & the First Amendment: The Story of the Burstyn Case," panel presentation at the Newseum, Washington, DC, sponsored by the First Amendment Center, September 15, 2008.

"The Politics of Movie Censorship," address delivered at Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT, September 22, 2008

Books: (See H-Law's list of new 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 (winner of the 2008 Scribes Award), 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:

Journal of American History review of Gerald R. Butters, Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966, vol. 95, no. 3, December 2008, 884

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

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.