Meet our team: Chloé Agar

Starting today, Chloé will be working on the Coptic side of the project. Welcome aboard, Chloé!

While training in Egyptology and archaeology at the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool, Chloé specialised in Coptic. She held the Deutsch Scholarship in African History at St Cross College, Oxford and completed her DPhil thesis in history in 2022, titled “On the Representation of Visions in Coptic Hagiographical Texts”.

Her research focuses on supernatural phenomena in hagiography and their implications for lived religion in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. To this end, she is contributing entries on Klaudios and Merkourios to the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database and has recently been contracted to write a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Angels and Demons.

In Oxford, Chloé held an Ashmolean Junior Teaching Fellowship from 2022 to 2023, worked and taught in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and collaborated on several projects on secondary epigraphy with Hana Navratilova, including “Graffiti Gazetteer”, and was the lead editor of Graffiti Quest (Brill, 2026). She previously worked with Dan on the “1Clement.VMR” project from 2020 to 2024 and, alongside Andy, became an active member of Oxford’s Syriac Studies community.