Chloe Bordewich

Chloe Bordewich is a postdoctoral fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute and the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at UTM. She writes about the history of information and the politics of historical narrative in West Asia and North Africa, with a focus on Egypt. Her current book project, Leaking Empires: The Long Struggle over Information in the Eastern Mediterranean, traces the fight for public access to knowledge in the modern Middle East since the 19th century. Chloe received her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University (2022) and was a postdoctoral fellow in Public History at Boston University from 2022-2023. She is also co-founder of the Boston Little Syria Project, a public/digital history initiative documenting the history of the city of Boston’s first Arabic-speaking neighbourhood.