Amy Beth Werbel

My research for the past twenty years has focused on Christian nationalist efforts to curtail the civil liberties promised to us by the First Amendment, and the vibrant, provocative, witty, and often enormously effective resistance of artists, writers, and lawyers. If past once again is prologue, we will see efforts to police American expression met with backlash much greater in force and effect. I am a Professor at SUNY-FIT, graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and Yale University, a two-time Fulbright Scholar (to China and the U.K.), a mother, and grandmother. My husband Frederick Lane is a writer on a similar beat.