Ellen Schrecker

(1938-08-04) August 4, 1938

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Stern College for Women

Professor

John E. Schrecker, Feb. 18, 1962 (div. Mar. 1979)
Marvin E. Gettleman, Aug. 28, 1981 - January 7, 2017)

Michael Franz
Daniel Edwin

Edwin II and Margaret Dannenbaum Wolf

Bunting Inst Fel, 77-78; Res Fel, Harry S. Truman Libr, 87; Outstanding Book Awd, Hist of Educ Soc, 87; Fel Nat Humanities Center, 94-95; Outstanding Acad Book "Choice", 98.

Yeshiva University: Faculty web page

Background[edit]

Schrecker graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1960 and earned her M.A. in 1962 and her doctorate in 1974, both from Harvard University.

Career[edit]

She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, New York University, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia. From 1998 to 2002, Schrecker was the editor of Academe, the journal of the American Association of University Professors.[2]

Personal life[edit]

Schrecker married Marvin Gettleman (1933 – 2017), a professor emeritus of history.[4]

Schrecker, Ellen (2010). The lost soul of higher education: corporatization, the assault on academic freedom, and the end of the American university. : The New Press. ISBN 978-1-59558-400-7.

New York

Schrecker, Ellen (2004). Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism (Editor). . ISBN 1-59558-083-2.

The New Press

Schrecker, Ellen (2003). American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism (compact disc). : Recorded Books, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4025-4758-4.

Prince Frederick, MD

Schrecker, Ellen (2002). . Bedford / St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-39319-9.

The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition

Schrecker, Ellen (1998). . Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-77470-7.

Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America

Schrecker, Ellen (1986). No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. . ISBN 0-19-505663-9.

Oxford University Press

Schrecker, Ellen (1983). Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in the 1980s (Edited by Kaplan, Craig). . ISBN 0-275-91021-0.

Praeger Publishers

Chiang, Jung-Feng; Schrecker, Ellen (1987) [1976, 2nd edition 1987]. Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook. . ISBN 0-06-015828-X.

Harper and Row

Schrecker, Ellen (1978). Hired Money: The French Debt to the United States, 1917-1929. Arno Press.  0-405-11247-5.

ISBN

Marvin Gettleman

McCarthyism

Ellen Schrecker's Curriculum Vitae

 by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, May 19, 2011

Interview with Ellen Schrecker

on C-SPAN

Appearances