Claire Potter
Claire Bond Potter is an American historian and author. She specializes in United States political history, queer studies, and the history of gender, sex, and feminism.
Potter received her B.A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1980. In 1984 she received a Master’s degree from New York University, where she also holds a Ph.D. in history (1990).
Claire Potter began teaching history in 1991 as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, she began a professorship at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut until she joined the New School for Public Engagement as Professor of History in 2012. At the New School she teaches contemporary courses in social sciences and humanities in the School of Undergraduate Studies and is also a member of the university history department. Potter is a part of “Democratizing the Archive,” a NSPE faculty collective dedicated to designing courses that expand the use of public manuscripts collections, linking students to communities through activist research and digital scholarship.
As an author, Potter has written one book, War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers, 1998) and is currently the co-editor of Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.) A member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Sexuality and co-editor, with Renee Romano, of the University of Georgia Press series "Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America," she is currently writing a book about the politics of anti-pornography campaigns, Beyond Pornography: How Feminism Survived the Age of Reagan and a collection of essays on academia in the digital age, Digital U: Why Crowdsourcing, Social Media, Word Press and Google Hangouts Could Save the Historical Profession.
Since 2007 she has written a blog, Tenured Radical, which moved to The Chronicle of Higher Education in July 2011.
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