Clare Corbould is a historian of the United States with expertise in African American politics and culture. She is the author of Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard UP, 2009), which won or was shortlisted for several Australian awards and was a Choice "Outstanding Title". Clare has published articles and chapters on a range of topics related to African American cultural and intellectual history. These include: the sounds of Harlem's streets in the interwar years; interwar anti-lynching plays; African Americans' ideas about Haiti; responses to the blockbuster 1977 miniseries, Roots; on artists & models, Maurice Hunter; and famed newspaper cartoonist E. Simms Campbell. She has also published several articles on the transnational development of ideas about race and practices of racism and resistance in the US and Australia.Educated at the University of Sydney, Clare worked there from 2003 to 2010. In 2011, she moved to Monash University as a Larkins research fellow and senior lecturer (continuing). From 2012 to 2017, she held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at Monash. In 2018, she joined the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University in Melbourne and as associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.