Cliopatria Welcomes Claire B. Potter

Cliopatria is delighted to welcome Claire B. Potter, the Tenured Radical, to our circle. She is a professor of history, director of the Center for the Americas, and a professor and chair of American Studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Prior to that, Claire earned her undergraduate degree at Yale and her M.A. and Ph.D. at NYU.

Professor Potter's book, War on Crime: Bandits, G-men, and the Politics of Mass Culture, was published by Rutgers University Press. Her two current projects are studies of the impact of historical writing about race and citizenship on nationalist discourse in the United States and on the federal campaigns against pornography initiated in the Carter, Reagan and first Bush administrations. Her book reviews and articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and Reviews in American History. At Wesleyan, she teaches the Twentieth Century U. S. history survey, Politics and Culture of the Southern States, post-Stonewall queer political thought, and seminars on the New Deal, crime, and the Cold War.

A prominent history blogger, the Tenured Radical has been known to criticize Cliopatricians when she's thought we deserved it and hang out with us in better times. It's a pleasure to welcome Claire Potter to Cliopatria.