Claire Bond Potter is an American historian.
[1] Potter received a BA from Yale University, where she studied English literature and worked for the Yale Daily News,[2] and a PhD from New York University.
[3] From 2006 to 2015, Potter wrote a blog called The Tenured Radical;[4] it was hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education from 2011 onward.
[5] Her 2020 book Political Junkies was described in Publishers Weekly as "an illuminating rundown of historical trends in political journalism, from New Deal–era consensus building to today's super-partisan echo chambers".
[6] In 2025, Potter vociferously defended[7] the American Historical Association elected council's veto of its member's resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza.