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Master of Information candidate at the University of Toronto iSchool.

Chloe Peters (b. 1996-) is a Medieval historian and information professional from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. During the course of her academic career, Peters earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts with a focus in Medieval Studies. Peters is currently in Toronto, Ontario earning a Master of Information in Archival Studies. Influenced by her upbringing, Peters’ areas of research include numismatics, paleography, pedagogical gamification, women, Christianity, collections, and memory.

Peters grew up in a non-religious household with a Catholic mother and an atheist father. Baptised Lutheran, Peters experienced numerous Christian religions during her childhood, attending Trinity United Church with her mother and Superb Mennonite Church with her paternal grandmother. At her mother’s behest, Peters received a Catholic school education, attending St. Dominic Elementary School between 1999 and 2010 and Bethlehem Catholic High School from 2010 to 2014.

Between 2014 and 2020, Peters attended the University of Saskatchewan where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Double Honours in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (CMRS), and History as well as a Certificate in Classical and Medieval Latin. Throughout her undergraduate degree, Peters participated in numerous extracurricular activities and held multiple research positions. From 2016 to 2018, Peters was the President of Comitatus, the CMRS student group for undergraduate students, where she organized numerous activities and fundraising events. From 2016 to 2020, Peters was a volunteer coin cataloguer at the Museum of Antiquities at the University of Saskatchewan. During this degree, Peters worked on several major projects including the creation of two Medieval card games, Virtus and Distaff, and her museum exhibition and bachelor’s thesis on the coinage of King Alfred.

Peters moved to Vienna, Austria in 2021 to study at Central European University. During this degree, Peters’ research centered on ants in Medieval Latin manuscripts, and, in 2022, she completed her thesis “Some Ants Go Marching Two by Two, Others Dig for Gold: The Visual and Textual Representations of Ants in the Medieval Period” and earned her Master of Arts in Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies. Peters remained in Vienna following the completion of her degree, where she travelled around Europe and took several German language courses. Throughout her academic career, Peters has presented her research at numerous academic conferences, including the Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress and the Leeds International Medieval Congress. In the fall of 2023, Peters returned to Saskatoon. In 2024, Peters moved to Toronto, Ontario to pursue a Master of Information from the University of Toronto.

Roxanne Quelhas was born in Mississauga, Ontario in 2001 and currently resides there. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 2024. After completing her Bachelor's degree, Quelhas enrolled in a Master of Information, concentrating on archives and record management at the University of Toronto.

During Quelhas’ Bachelor, between 2020 and 2024, she engaged in various research projects within the Political, Sociology, History, and English disciplines that focused on gender, sexuality, and systems of power. Through her research, she interacted with archives and museums, using primary materials as the foundation for her academic work. Quelhas worked as a file clerk while completing her Bachelor’s, which further developed her interest in records.

Throughout her undergraduate degree, Quelhas volunteered articles to the independent student newspaper, The Eyeopener, at Toronto Metropolitan University where she wrote and interviewed students on topics concerning student life and mental health.

Besides her research, Quelhas is a creative writer who has developed a portfolio of short fiction stories. Her creative work was done academically and independently as she pursued her creative interests through courses and writers' workshops in the GTA, which she currently attends as she continues to pursue her creative interests.