Catherine (Catie) Peters is an interdisciplinary historian of the Caribbean whose research centers on empire, Black and Asian diasporas, and the environment. She earned her PhD in American Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Peters has held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and Tufts University, where she also taught courses in American Studies and Caribbean Studies spanning from the nineteenth century to the present. 

During her time at KITLV, she is wrapping up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and beginning an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. While in Leiden, she will draft the third chapter of her book project Laboring neighbors: Afro-Asian ecologies in the colonial Caribbean.