Rachel Hope Cleves

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Rachel Hope Cleves
Born1975 (age 4849)
New York City
OccupationHistorian
NationalityAmerican-Canadian
Period2010s–Present
Notable worksCharity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Rachel Hope Cleves (born 1975) is an American-Canadian historian, best known for her 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. [1] The book, a study of historical documents concerning the same-sex relationship of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the 19th century, was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for LGBT Studies at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards. [2]

Born in New York City in 1975, Cleves studied at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia since 2009. [3] She is a specialist in early American history, with research areas including gender and sexuality, the American relationship with the French Revolution, and the War of 1812. [4]

She has also published the book The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009), as well as articles in journals such as Early American Studies , Reviews in American History and the Journal of American History .

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [5]

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References

  1. "The improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America's first same-sex 'marriages'". Washington Post , March 20, 2015.
  2. "Seventeen Canadian authors nominated for Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire , March 4, 2015.
  3. "A surprising history of same-sex nuptials". Victoria Times-Colonist , April 26, 2015.
  4. "Our interpretation of history is clouded by the fog of war". Victoria Times-Colonist , February 19, 2012.
  5. "Royal Society of Canada elects four UVic researchers". uvic.ca. September 10, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.