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Rachel Hope Cleves
Dr. Rachel Hope Cleves (born 1975 in Manhattan, New York) is an American historian specializing in Early American history, 1750-1850. Her research focuses on the histories of violence, gender and sexuality. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria.

Cleves completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at The University of California, Berkeley. Her works include The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009), and Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014).

My love for American history emerged initially from travelling through the United States. To date, I have visited every state except Alaska (and maybe Missouri). I grew up and went to college in New York City, moved to Berkeley, California for graduate school, then taught for four years in Northern Illinois before joining the faculty at UVic in 2009. My current research project, "The Not So Innocents Abroad," is about the pursuit of pleasure within expatriate communities in France and Italy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."