Claire Bond Potter is Professor of History at the New School for Public Engagement, New York, NY. She is the sole author of the education blog Tenured Radical at the Chronicle of Higher Education and co-editor, with Renee Romano, 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 received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from New York University.  Her research is focused on the history of crime and state formation processes, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality and the political culture of the twentieth century United States. 

Her published work includes War on Crime:  Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (New Brunswick:  Rutgers University Press, 1998); Paths to Political Citizenship:  Feminism, Gay Rights and the Carter Presidency, Journal of Policy History (winter 2011-12); and Because It Is Gone Now:  Teaching The September 11 Digital Archive, OAH Magazine of History v. 25 no. 3 (Summer 2011).