Dr. Ellen Schrecker is a professor of history at Yeshiva University. Widely recognized as a leading expert on McCarthyism, she has published many books and articles on the subject, including MANY ARE THE CRIMES: MCCARTHYISM IN AMERICA, THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM: A SHORT HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS, and NO IVORY TOWER: MCCARTHYISM AND THE UNIVERSITIES. In 2004 she published an edited collection of essays, COLD WAR TRIUMPHALISM: EXPOSING THE MISUSE OF HISTORY AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM. The recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the National Humanities Center, and the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Center, Dr. Schrecker has also written about academic freedom and, from 1998 to 2002, edited ACADEME, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors. Her most recent publication, THE LOST SOUL OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CORPORATIZATION, THE ASSAULT ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AND THE END OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, looks at the contemporary academic scene. She is currently working with a political scientist at the CUNY Graduate Center on an interdisciplinary study of political repression in the U.S. Before coming to Yeshiva, Schrecker taught at Harvard (where she received her PhD), Princeton, and NYU.