Dr Clare Corbould - Researcher Profile

Clare Corbould

Address

School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

Clare Corbould joined the School in 2011 as a Larkins Fellow. She has a PhD from the University of Sydney (2005), where she worked as an Associate Lecturer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer from 2003-2010. From 2012-2015 she is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.

Clare's area of expertise is African American history. In 2009 she published Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard University Press). The book won the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for First Book of History, was shortlisted for two other prizes and named a 2009 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's magazine, Choice. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Clare received a 2005 award for Teaching Excellence from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney.

Qualifications

PHD
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 2005
BA (HONS)
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 1998

Publications

Books

Corbould, C., 2009, Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts and London England.

Book Chapters

Corbould, C., 2011, At the feet of Dessalines: Performing Haiti's revolution during the New Negro Renaissance, in Beyond Blackface: African Amerians and the Creation of American Popular Culture, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill US, pp. 259-288.

Corbould, C., 2009, Fighting terror with words: African American women playrights, lynching and rape in the Jim Crow American South, in Feminism and the Body: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds Catherine Kevin, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, pp. 99-113.

Journal Articles

Corbould, C., 2007, Streets, sounds and identity in interwar Harlem, Journal Of Social History [P], vol 40, issue 4, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 859-894.

corbould, C., 2005, US imperialism in the twentieth century, A J A S [P], vol 24, issue 2, Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 128-141.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A History of New Thought in Australia.
Supervisors:
Verhoeven, T (Main), Corbould, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
An Examination of the Taft Political Dynasty.
Supervisors:
Corbould, C (Main), Verhoeven, T (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Dobson, D.
Program of Study:
'A fearful excitement': the Baltimore riot in American civil war history and memory. (Masters) 2012.
Supervisors:
Clulow, A (Main), Corbould, C (Associate).