Julia Rose Kraut is a lawyer and historian who specializes in immigration and First Amendment law and history. Most recently, she was the inaugural Judith S. Kaye Fellow for the Historical Society of the New York Courts and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the New-York Historical Society. Dr. Kraut is the author of Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States (2020), which was featured in the New York Times. She is also one of the contributors to Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (2020), edited by Hannah Gurman and Kaeten Mistry.