Jump to content

Rachel Hope Cleves

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rachel Hope Cleves
Born1975 (age 48–49)
New York City
OccupationHistorian
NationalityAmerican-Canadian
Period2010s–Present
Notable worksCharity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Rachel Hope Cleves (born 1975) is an American-Canadian historian, best known for her 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America.[1] The book, a study of historical documents concerning the same-sex relationship of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the 19th century, was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for LGBT Studies at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards.[2]

Born in New York City in 1975, Cleves studied at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia since 2009.[3] She is a specialist in early American history, with research areas including gender and sexuality, the American relationship with the French Revolution, and the War of 1812.[4]

She has also published the books, The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009), as well as articles in journals such as Early American Studies, Reviews in American History and the Journal of American History.

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[5]

Works

[edit]

Books

[edit]
  • Rachel Hope Cleves (2009). The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107403987.
  • Rachel Hope Cleves (2014). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190627317.
  • Rachel Hope Cleves (2020). Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226733531.
  • Rachel Hope Cleves (2024). Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex. Polity. ISBN 978-1509553631.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "The improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America's first same-sex 'marriages'". Washington Post, March 20, 2015.
  2. ^ "Seventeen Canadian authors nominated for Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 4, 2015.
  3. ^ "A surprising history of same-sex nuptials". Victoria Times-Colonist, April 26, 2015.
  4. ^ "Our interpretation of history is clouded by the fog of war". Victoria Times-Colonist, February 19, 2012.
  5. ^ "Royal Society of Canada elects four UVic researchers". uvic.ca. September 10, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
[edit]