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.[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] it was 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]
Books edit
- War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers University Press, 1998)[7][8]
- 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)[9]
- with Renee Romano Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Restaged American History (Rutgers University Press: 2018)[10][11][12]
- Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (2020, Basic Books: ISBN 9781541644991)[6]
References edit
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The Education Project | Claire Potter". educationproject.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The History of the "Tenured Radical"". The Wesleyan Argus. Archived from the original on 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
- ^ "Political Junkies - Claire Bond Potter". clairepotter.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ a b "Political Junkies". Publishers Weekly. July 2020. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 3 June 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links edit
- Official website
- "Claire Potter (faculty profile)". The New School: Lang College of Liberal Arts.