Claire Potter, Professor of History, The New School
Claire Potter joined the New School for Public Engagement in 2012. She is the author of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers, 1998) and co-editor of Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.) She teaches courses in social sciences and humanities in the School of Undergraduate Studies and is also a member of the university history department.
Claire is part of “Democratizing the Archive,” a NSPE faculty collective dedicated to designing courses that expand the use of public manuscript collections, linking students to communities through activist research and digital scholarship. A member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Sexuality and co-editor, with Renee Romano, of the University of Georgia Press series “Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America,” she is currently working on a book about the politics of anti-pornography campaigns in the late twentieth century United States.