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    MCCARTHYISM, THE COLD WAR, AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, 1945-60

    MCCARTHYISM, THE COLD WAR, AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, 1945-60

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    Nearly seventy-five years before the war on “woke” entered schools and universities, Joseph McCarthy’s paranoid hunt for communists in the 1950s introduced unprecedented anxieties in U.S. colleges and universities. This lecture explores how academic institutions responded, and in many cases capitulated, to the mass hysteria which demanded that not just communists but anyone who shared sympathies with ideologies deemed undesirable or subversive be purged from faculty ranks. McCarthy-era loyalty oaths, seemingly a relic of a distant past, illuminate the pervasive threat that political tests pose to academic freedom today.
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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Friday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Date(s)
    Dec 15, 2023