Thursday, January 22, 2026

Clare Corbould

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Clare Corbould is an Associate Professor of history and co-convenor of the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University. Her expertise is in United States history with an emphasis on race, racism, and African American history. She is author of the award-winning Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem (Harvard, 2009) and co-editor of Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War (Massachusetts, 2013).

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