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Potter, Claire B.
Faculty Fellow (spring)
Center for the Humanities
860.685.3062
Center for the Humanities 206
Professor of History
History Department
860.685.2377
Center for the Americas 216
Professor, American Studies
American Studies Program
860.685.2377
Center for the Americas 216
BA Yale University
MA New York University
PHD New York University
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EMAIL:
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cpotter01@wesleyan.edu
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PERSONAL HOME PAGE:
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http://cpotter01.faculty.wesleyan.edu
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WESLEYAN PO BOX:
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History Department
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COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Claire Potter focuses her research on the social and cultural dynamics of state formation in the 20th century. She is the author of a major study of the FBI's war on midwestern bandits in the 1930s and currently working on a book which explores the impact of historical writing about race and citizenship on nationalist discourse in the United States. A third project in its early stages focuses on the federal campaigns against pornography initiated in the Carter, Reagan and first Bush administrations. She teaches the survey courses on U.S. Foreign Relations (which highlights interhemispheric relations), Politics and Culture of the Southern States, and post Stonewall queer political thought; as well as seminars on the New Deal, crime, and the Cold War.
Claire blogs at http://tenured-radical.blogspot.com/
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
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United States political and cultural history; queer studies; gender
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ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:
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American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
American Studies Association
AAUP
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AWARDS WON:
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Binswanger Award for Teaching Excellence
Audre Lorde prize for best article in GLBTQ history, awarded by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History (American Historical Association affiliate society), 2007-08
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OFFICE HOURS:
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On Leave Fall 2009
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