Chloë Mayoux

Chloë Mayoux is a global and diplomatic historian of technology, environment, and empire in modern Europe and Africa. Chloë is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard’s Belfer Center, and the Martin Sherwin Fellow in Nuclear History. She is completing a book on decolonization in the nuclear age, based on doctoral work which was awarded the 2025 Michael Dockrill Prize for Best Thesis. At BU, she teaches the history of European warfare in global perspective, with an emphasis on colonial violence and technological change.

Chloë’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal of Global History, Relations Internationales, The Thinker, and The Yearbook for the History of Global Development. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique, and was previously Managing Editor at the Cold War History journal.

Chloë earned her Ph.D. in International History from the London School of Economics. Before joining the Belfer Center, she was a Visiting Doctoral Fellow at Sciences Po’s Centre for History. She holds a Master’s degree in Global and Imperial History from the University of Oxford, a Certificate in International Affairs and Strategy from Sciences Po Paris, and a B.A. in European Studies from King’s College London.

Her fieldwork in Africa has been funded by the Royal Historical Society, and the Society for the Study of French History, among others.