Chloe Ireton

Dr. Chloe Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World (1500-1800) at University College London and a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-2026). Her research focuses on slavery, freedom, empire, and subaltern public spheres in the early Atlantic world, with a particular emphasis on Black intellectual and political thought. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has held fellowships from institutions including the John Carter Brown Library and the Leverhulme Trust.

Her first monograph, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (2024), examines how enslaved and free Black individuals conceptualized freedom and contested slavery through legal and cultural means. Current projects include Infrastructures of Black Political Knowledge and Plotting for Freedom, a dual biography of an enslaved couple. She teaches courses on Atlantic history, Black thought in the Iberian world, and methodologies for studying marginalized histories.

Dr. Ireton’s work has appeared in leading journals like Renaissance Quarterly and Hispanic American Historical Review, and she actively engages in public scholarship through antiracist initiatives and community writing projects. She supervises PhD students in colonial Latin American history, Atlantic studies, and interdisciplinary methodologies.