Claire Aubin

Claire E. Aubin is postdoctoral fellow in the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA) and a historian of antisemitism, the Holocaust, Nazism, and twentieth-century American culture and society. She holds an LL.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and is currently completing the manuscript for her first book, based on her doctoral dissertation. The Homeland: Holocaust Perpetrators as Immigrants to America, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, features bottom-up microhistories of Holocaust perpetrators and collaborators in order to critically examine the roles of individual agency and community within the post-war displacement, immigration, and American social integration processes.

Alongside formal academic work, Claire is the host and executive producer of This Guy Sucked, a podcast produced by Multitude Shows, which focuses on making critical academic history accessible to the broader public. She also regularly appears as an expert scholar on shows like AskHistorians, History Hack, Spirits, WW2TV, and Ipse Dixit, and has had her work featured in public media outlets like The Guardian, TIME, and The Daily Kos.

Before coming to Yale, Claire was a lecturer at the University of California, Davis, and San Francisco State University, where she taught courses on Holocaust history and memory, pre- and post-war American culture, and artistic and cinematic interpretations of the Holocaust and antisemitism. At Yale, her teaching focuses on histories of right-wing antisemitism and antisemitic visual culture through the end of the twentieth century.