Christine Emeran

Christine Emeran is a sociologist and censorship researcher who serves as Director of the Youth Free Expression Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship, where she focuses on protecting students’ rights to read, learn, and express themselves in K–12 schools. She is a co-editor of The Impacts of Censorship, Volume 1: Research on the Intersection of Censorship and Teaching English (National Council of Teachers of English, 2025), a collection of original research on contemporary censorship pressures in English language arts classrooms.

Emeran is the author of New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine 2000–2014 (Routledge, 2018) and a book chapter, “The March for Our Lives Movement in the USA: Generational Change and the Personalization of Protest,” in When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). She holds a PhD in sociology from the New School for Social Research, an MA in International Education from New York University, and a BA/BS in International Business from the American University, and has taught sociology and social movements courses at St. John’s University, Manhattan College, and Sciences Po in Paris.