Ellen Schrecker is 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 (1998); The Age of McCarthyism: A Short History with Documents (1994, 2002); and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (1986). The recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the National Humanities Center, and the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Center at NYU, she has taught at Harvard and Princeton. Schrecker also writes about contemporary academic freedom and from 1998 to 2002, edited Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors. Her most recent book is The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom and the End of the University (2010).