Ellen Schrecker

Ellen Schrecker is an American historian known for her research on McCarthyism, political repression, and American higher education. Her latest work is The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing War on Academic Freedom, coedited with Valerie C. Johnson and Jennifer Ruth (Beacon, 2024). Her other books include The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (Chicago, 2021); Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Little, Brown, 1998); and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (Oxford, 1986). She is active in the American Association of University Professors and now serves on its Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.