Interests

Joyce Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early 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: Thursday 2:00-3:00 or by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Intellectual History at Harvard

Harvard Center for the Enviroment