Claire Potter

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Claire Bond Potter is an American historian. She is a professor of history at The New School.

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She is co-executive editor of the journal Public Seminar . [1]

Potter received a BA from Yale University, where she studied English literature and worked for the Yale Daily News , [2] and a PhD from New York University. [3]

From 2006 to 2015, Potter wrote a blog called The Tenured Radical, [4] hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education from 2011 onward. [5]

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". [6]

In 2025, Potter vociferously defended [7] the American Historical Association elected council's veto of its member's resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2019 annual conference proposals invitation" (PDF). Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "The Education Project | Claire Potter". educationproject.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  3. ↑ "Writer-In-Residence Annual Lecture: Claire Bond Potter : Department of History : UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-08-24. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  4. ↑ "The History of the "Tenured Radical"". The Wesleyan Argus. Archived from the original on 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  5. ↑ "Political Junkies - Claire Bond Potter". clairepotter.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  6. 1 2 "Political Junkies". Publishers Weekly. July 2020. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Potter, Claire Bond (5 January 2015). "The Rules Were Not Suspended: What Happened at the AHA Business Meeting". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Ryan, Quinn. "Historians' Council Vetoes Gaza Scholasticide Condemnation". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  9. ↑ Ruth, David E. (1 March 1999). "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.)" . The Journal of American History. 85 (4): 1639–1640. doi:10.2307/2568369. JSTOR   2568369. Archived from the original on 3 June 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  10. ↑ Ferrall, Bard R. (1998-09-22). "War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 89 (1): 403–404.
  11. ↑ Carter, Julian (1 March 2013). "Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back". The Journal of American History. p. 1327. doi:10.1093/jahist/jas598. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  12. ↑ Barron, James (January 13, 2019). "Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 24, 2022. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  13. ↑ Owen, Kenneth (August 24, 2020). "Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past ed. by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter (review)" . Journal of the Early Republic. 40 (1): 151–153. doi:10.1353/jer.2020.0014. S2CID   214321115 – via Project MUSE.
  14. ↑ Keiter, Lindsay M. (August 24, 2021). "Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past ed. by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter (review)" . Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 88 (4): 599–602. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.88.4.0599 – via Project MUSE.
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