Chloé Roberts

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Dr. Chloé Roberts was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She received her BA with honors in European History from Fort Lewis College and her MA with honors in British and French History from Boston College. She was a Franco-American Fulbright Scholar in 2021where she completed research in France for her dissertation titled "The Demonological Republic of Letters: Judges, Lawyers, and Demonologists in Early Modern Europe”. She received her PhD with honors from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2024. She is the recipient of the Neil McHugh Outstanding Historian Award (2013), The Borchard Fellowship (2019, 2021), and the Esme Frost Fellowship. She has presented her work at conferences across the world including the EHESS Witchcraft Studies Conference and the SCSC in St. Louis. She currently lives in New York City with her two cats, Fred and George, and continues her research on judicial history, magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Early Modern World. 

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