Claire Potter Explained
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
- 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:)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2019 annual conference proposals invitation. 25 August 2022. Society for U.S. Intellectual History. 25 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220825105731/https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Updated-CFP-SUSIH-2019.pdf. live.
- Web site: The Education Project Claire Potter . 2022-08-25 . educationproject.yale.edu . 2022-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221006132942/https://educationproject.yale.edu/claire-potter/ . live .
- Web site: Writer-In-Residence Annual Lecture: Claire Bond Potter : Department of History : UMass Amherst. www.umass.edu. 2022-08-24. 2022-08-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20220824060455/https://www.umass.edu/history/event/writer-residence-annual-lecture-claire-bond-potter. live.
- Web site: The History of the "Tenured Radical" . 2022-08-25 . The Wesleyan Argus . en . 2023-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230703233004/http://wesleyanargus.com/2011/05/03/the-history-of-the-%E2%80%9Ctenured-radical%E2%80%9D/ . live .
- Web site: Political Junkies - Claire Bond Potter. clairepotter.com. 2022-08-24. 2022-08-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20220817153545/https://clairepotter.com/. live.
- News: Political Junkies . 25 August 2022 . Publishers Weekly . July 2020 . 24 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824054323/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781541644991 . live .
- Web site: David E.. Ruth. The Journal of American History. 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.). 1 March 1999. 24 August 2022. 3 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180603121524/https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/85/4/1639/752428?redirectedFrom=fulltext. live.
- Ferrall . Bard R. . 1998-09-22 . War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture . Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology . English . 89 . 1 . 403–404.
- Web site: Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back. Julian. Carter. The Journal of American History. 1 March 2013. 24 August 2022. 24 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220824062604/https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/99/4/1327/929786?redirectedFrom=PDF. live.
- News: Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So. James. Barron. The New York Times. January 13, 2019. August 24, 2022. August 24, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220824055430/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/nyregion/hamilton-lin-manuel-miranda-the-haunting.html. live.
- Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past ed. by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter (review). Kenneth. Owen. August 24, 2020. Journal of the Early Republic. 40. 1. 151–153. Project MUSE. 10.1353/jer.2020.0014. 214321115 . subscription.
- Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past ed. by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter (review). Lindsay M.. Keiter. August 24, 2021. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 88. 4. 599–602. 10.5325/pennhistory.88.4.0599 . Project MUSE. subscription.