Dr. Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor of History and Classics in the department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto and co-founder and lead editor of the platform Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period (editor, 2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory (co-editor with Ben Akrigg, 2024). She is currently writing a monograph entitled Inventing Alexandria and co-editing the volume Viva Palestina: Imagining Transhistorical Solidarity (with Usama Ali Gad, Mathura Umachandran, and Marchella Ward).