biography

Clare is author of the book, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Duke University Press, 2014), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in 2016 and was co-winner of the Committee on LGBT History’s John Boswell Award in 2017.

Clare’s writing on queer cultures and histories has appeared in American Historical Review, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, GLQ, Jacobin, Michigan Quarterly Review, Routledge History of Queer America, SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, Sexualities, Social Justice, Transgender Studies Reader and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Clare also co-edited a special issue of the journal Social Justice on sexuality and criminalization.

Clare earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has received multiple awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

Clare is currently working on two new projects: (1) a novel on queer and trans history, haunting, and memory set in 1870s San Francisco, and (2) a book on the cultural impact of the TV show Killing Eve.

Clare is a professor of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, and director of the MA Program in Sexuality Studies.