Education

M.A. University of Virginia (2021)
B.A. California State University, Northridge (2014)

Biography

Chloe Celeste Porche is a PhD candidate in the Corcoran Department of History researching nineteenth-century Black activism. Her dissertation, entitled Slavery’s Ghost and the Spirit of Resistance: Black Women Look back on Emancipation in the Age of Jim Crow, 1865-1925, examines Black women’s intellectual and organizational efforts in the struggle to define emancipation’s legacy and to combat the growing influence of the “Lost Cause” narrative during the Jim Crow Era.

Originally a native of southern California, Chloe graduated with honors from California State University, Northridge in 2014. In addition to studying history as an undergraduate, Chloe trained and performed as a modern dancer. Following graduation, she worked at Moorpark Community College in the Teaching and Learning Center, where she developed a strong passion for student-centered teaching.

Awards and Honors

Coordinating Council for Women in History, Ida B. Wells Graduate Fellowship, 2024.

Society of Fellows, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Fall 2024-Spring 2025.

Society of Fellows, The University of Virginia, Senior-Junior Fellow, August 2023-2024.

Society of Fellows, The University of Virginia, Junior Fellow, August 2022-2023.

William Jackson Fellowship Fund, Dissertation Research, 2022-2023.

Teaching Relief Fellowship, The University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Charlottesville VA, Spring 2022. 

Rosewell Plantation Foundation, Summer Research Fellow July 2019.

Courses Taught

Teaching Assistant:

HIUS 2001 - American History to 1865 (Fall 2019)

HIUS 3652 - Afro-American History since 1865 (Spring 2020)

HILA 2001 - Colonial Latin America, 1500-1824 (Fall 2020)

HIUS 3654 - Black Fire (Spring 2021)

HIAF 2001 - Early African History (Fall 2021)

AAS 1010 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies I (Fall 2023)

AAS 3671- History of the Civil Rights Movement (Winter 2024)