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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).
Joyce Chaplin
Position: James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Director of the Charles Warren Center
Field: United States
Specialty: Early American History; Intellectual History; Environmental History; History of Science
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Robinson Hall
Room 122
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.3597
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00-5:00

