Clare Corbould

Clare Corbould is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. Her teaching includes units on African American history and culture and United States imperialism. In 2009, she published Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard UP).

Clare is currently undertaking a project on interwar social science research, focusing on interviews conducted with former slaves. She is co-editing several collections on the role of the Revolution in American Life. At the Beinecke, Clare will conduct research for a biography of civil rights campaigner and writer James Weldon Johnson.