Interests

Joyce Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island, and in a maritime studies program on the Atlantic Ocean. Her research interests include early American history, intellectual history, and environmental history. She is currently writing a 500-year history of around-the-world travel.

Selected Publications

• Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2008).
• The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006).
• Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001).
• An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993).

Contact Info

Robinson Hall

Room 122

35 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

chaplin@fas.harvard.edu

617.496.3597

Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00-5:00

Course(s): 74f, 1415, US 19

Curriculum Vitae

Intellectual History at Harvard

Harvard Center for the Enviroment