Claire E. Aubin is a YPSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer in Humanities, and a historian of antisemitism, the Holocaust, Nazism, and twentieth-century American culture and society. She 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 immigrant 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 popular history podcast that makes critical scholarly research 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.
Claire holds an LL.M. in Human Rights Law and Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Yale, she 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.