Laura Wittern-keller
Lecturer
History
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
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 violent content in the media, specifically movies, and how that content has been controlled historically. Wittern-Keller received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching at UAlbany in 2011. She received her master's degree from Penn State University and her doctorate from the University at Albany.
Research Interest
Censorship; free speech; violent content in the media; 20th century U.S. Public Policy; legal, constitutional and immigration history
Publications
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Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981, University Press of Kentucky, January 2008.
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The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court, co-authored with Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., University Press of Kansas Landmark Law Case series, October 2008.
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"All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States," in Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel, eds, Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
