Chloe Foor is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Bachelors of Science in History, Computer Science, and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Her research interests include urban, spatial, and cartographic histories of the New Kingdom of Granada during the colonial era. Currently, she is researching the various ways that different populations understood, negotiated, and experienced religious spaces during the course of the seventeenth century.
She is deeply informed by digital methodologies, and is interested in the ways that digital tools can be used to explore and represent historical data, mostly through mapping and network analysis. Beyond this, she is dedicated to public history and the various methods to make history more accessible and interactive.
Her work has been supported by the Eccles Institute at the British Library, the Hilldale Foundation, and the University of Texas Department of History. She has presented her work at the Conference on Latin American History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, and the Latin American and Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium.