Dr. Clare Richardson received her PhD from the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2024. Her dissertation, “Colonial Wars, Information Wars: The End of Portugal’s African Empire and Making of U.S. Foreign Policy,” is a history of Portugal’s colonial wars in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s and how, as anticolonialists fought for their liberation from Portuguese rule, a proxy war of information was taking place in the United States aimed at fundamentally altering U.S. foreign policy. Her work was supported by fellowships from the German Research Council (DFG) and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).
From 2018 to 2020 Clare was a Lecturer in Journalism at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where she taught graduate courses in video and audio journalism. She has a master’s degree in Global History from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a bachelor’s degree in Honors Politics and Spanish + Latin American Studies from NYU in New York. Her native language is English. Spanish, German, and Portuguese are all works in varying degrees of progress.