Ellen Schrecker

Ellen Schrecker
Born (1938-08-04) August 4, 1938
EmployerStern College for Women
TitleProfessor
Spouse(s)John E. Schrecker, Feb. 18, 1962 (div. Mar. 1979)
Marvin E. Gettleman, Aug. 28, 1981 - January 7, 2017)
ChildrenMichael Franz
Daniel Edwin
Parent(s)Edwin II and Margaret Dannenbaum Wolf
AwardsBunting 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.
WebsiteYeshiva University: Faculty web page
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Ellen Wolf Schrecker (born August 4, 1938) is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at New York University. She is known primarily for her work in the history of McCarthyism. Historian Ronald Radosh has described her as "the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians."