The ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation is proud to honor

Professor Athan Theoharis with the Eunice Z. Edgar Lifetime Achievement Award

Athan Theoharis is an ACLU of WI/F Board Member and nationally recognized expert on FOIA and FBI abuse. 

Athan Theoharis is considered one of the foremost national experts on FOIA, Spying, Torture, Special Rendition, the FBI, the NSA and Government abuse of power. He has dedicated his lifetime to the supporting civil liberties, freedom and personal privacy rights.  A professor of history at Marquette University, he is the author of or editor of A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know; The Boss; From the Secret files of J. Edgar Hoover; J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime; Beyond the Hiss Case;  Spying on Americans;  Seeds of Repression; The Yalta Myths;  The Specter; The Truman Presidency; Anatomy of Anti-Communism;  and The FBI:  An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide.  He has received numerous research grants and awards, including a Gavel Award from the American Bar Association and the Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians. Professor Theoharis has been a member of the ACLU of Wisconsin since the mid-1970’s and he has been an invaluable member of the Board of Directors since as the 1980’s.  In a time of increased U.S. Government surveillance and interference in the rights of the people in the United States, Professor Theoharis’s lifetime of work has an extra relevancy for all of our freedoms.  The ACLU of Wisconsin is proud to honor Professor Athan Theoharis’ lifelong dedication to protecting our Constitution with knowledge and truth.