Research interests

Social history; book history; technology

Biography

Kathryn A. Schwartz was a historian of the modern Middle East. Kathryn earned her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 2015, and her B.A. in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies from King’s College, the University of Cambridge in 2008. She has revised her dissertation into a book entitled "Print and the People of Cairo, 19th century."