Claire Potter
{{Short description|American historian}}
Claire Bond Potter is an American historian. She is a professor of history at The New School.
She is co-executive editor of the journal Public Seminar.{{cite web|title=Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2019 annual conference proposals invitation|url=https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Updated-CFP-SUSIH-2019.pdf|access-date=25 August 2022|website=Society for U.S. Intellectual History|archive-date=25 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825105731/https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Updated-CFP-SUSIH-2019.pdf|url-status=live}}
Potter received a BA from Yale University, where she studied English literature and worked for the Yale Daily News,{{Cite web |title=The Education Project {{!}} Claire Potter |url=https://educationproject.yale.edu/claire-potter/ |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=educationproject.yale.edu |archive-date=2022-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006132942/https://educationproject.yale.edu/claire-potter/ |url-status=live }} and a PhD from New York University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.umass.edu/history/event/writer-residence-annual-lecture-claire-bond-potter|title=Writer-In-Residence Annual Lecture: Claire Bond Potter : Department of History : UMass Amherst|website=www.umass.edu|access-date=2022-08-24|archive-date=2022-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824060455/https://www.umass.edu/history/event/writer-residence-annual-lecture-claire-bond-potter|url-status=live}}
From 2006 to 2015, Potter wrote a blog called The Tenured Radical,{{Cite web |title=The History of the "Tenured Radical" |url=http://wesleyanargus.com/2011/05/03/the-history-of-the-%e2%80%9ctenured-radical%e2%80%9d/ |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=The Wesleyan Argus |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703233004/http://wesleyanargus.com/2011/05/03/the-history-of-the-%E2%80%9Ctenured-radical%E2%80%9D/ |url-status=live }} hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education from 2011 onward.{{Cite web|url=https://clairepotter.com/|title=Political Junkies - Claire Bond Potter|website=clairepotter.com|access-date=2022-08-24|archive-date=2022-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817153545/https://clairepotter.com/|url-status=live}}
Her 2020 book Political Junkies was described in Publishers Weekly as "an illuminating rundown of historical trends in political journalism, from New Deal–era consensus building to today's super-partisan echo chambers".{{cite news |title=Political Junkies |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781541644991 |access-date=25 August 2022 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=July 2020 |archive-date=24 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824054323/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781541644991 |url-status=live }}
In 2025, Potter vociferously defended{{cite web |last1=Potter |first1=Claire Bond |title=The Rules Were Not Suspended: What Happened at the AHA Business Meeting |url=https://www.chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/the-rules-were-not-suspended-what-happened-at-the-aha-business-meeting |website=Chronicle of Higher Education |date=5 January 2015 |access-date=22 January 2025}} the American Historical Association elected council's veto of its member's resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza.{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Quinn |title=Historians' Council Vetoes Gaza Scholasticide Condemnation |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2025/01/17/historians-council-vetoes-gaza-scholasticide |website=Inside Higher Ed |access-date=22 January 2025}}
Books
- War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers University Press, 1998){{cite journal|first=David E.|last=Ruth|journal=The Journal of American History|title=War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture. By Claire Bond Potter. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xii, 250 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2486-5. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8135-2487-3.)|date=1 March 1999|volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=1639–1640 |doi=10.2307/2568369 |jstor=2568369 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/85/4/1639/752428?redirectedFrom=fulltext|access-date=24 August 2022|archive-date=3 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603121524/https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/85/4/1639/752428?redirectedFrom=fulltext|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal |last=Ferrall |first=Bard R. |date=1998-09-22 |title=War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00914169&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA54836602&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology |language=English |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=403–404}}
- with Renee Romano, Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History that Talks Back (University of Georgia Press, 2012){{cite web|title=Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back|first=Julian|last=Carter|journal=The Journal of American History|date=1 March 2013|volume=99 |issue=4 |page=1327 |doi=10.1093/jahist/jas598 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/99/4/1327/929786?redirectedFrom=PDF|access-date=24 August 2022|archive-date=24 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824062604/https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/99/4/1327/929786?redirectedFrom=PDF|url-status=live}}
- with Renee Romano Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Restaged American History (Rutgers University Press: 2018){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/nyregion/hamilton-lin-manuel-miranda-the-haunting.html|title=Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So|first=James|last=Barron|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 13, 2019|access-date=August 24, 2022|archive-date=August 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824055430/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/nyregion/hamilton-lin-manuel-miranda-the-haunting.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/749283|title=Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past ed. by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter (review)|first=Kenneth|last=Owen|date=August 24, 2020|journal=Journal of the Early Republic|volume=40|issue=1|pages=151–153|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/jer.2020.0014|s2cid=214321115 |url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/805832|title=Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past ed. by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter (review)|first=Lindsay M.|last=Keiter|date=August 24, 2021|journal=Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies|volume=88|issue=4|pages=599–602|doi=10.5325/pennhistory.88.4.0599 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription}}
- Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (2020, Basic Books: {{ISBN|9781541644991}})
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://clairepotter.com/}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty/claire-potter/| title=Claire Potter (faculty profile)|publisher=The New School: Lang College of Liberal Arts}}
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