Abigail Arlington is a historian of early modern intercultural exchange and maritime empires. Born in 1983 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she studied history at the University of Chicago, earned an MPhil at the University of Oxford, and completed a PhD at SOAS, University of London, focusing on port-city interpreters in the Ottoman and Portuguese worlds. She has conducted archival research in Istanbul, Goa, and Veracruz and consults for museum exhibitions in Lisbon and Muscat. Since 2016 she has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs a research lab on translation and empire.
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