Catherine Boyle

Catherine Boyle (she/they) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Axinn Center for the Humanities at Middlebury College. A historian working at the crossroads of the Middle East and the African continent, Catherine received their Ph.D. in History with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, and their B.A. in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Tufts University. Their book project, tentatively entitled Sites of Servitude, examines comparative slavery, racial formation, and empires in Tunis from 1736 to 1891. Catherine’s research has been supported by the American Institute of Maghrib Studies (AIMS), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies – Tunis.