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: ISBN 9781541644991)[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2019 annual conference proposals invitation" (PDF). Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "The Education Project | Claire Potter". educationproject.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  3. ↑ "Writer-In-Residence Annual Lecture: Claire Bond Potter : Department of History : UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu.
  4. ↑ "The History of the "Tenured Radical"". The Wesleyan Argus. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  5. ↑ "Political Junkies - Claire Bond Potter". clairepotter.com.
  6. 1 2 "Political Junkies". Publishers Weekly. July 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Barron, James (January 13, 2019). "Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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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