Interests

Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.  A graduate of Northwestern University and the Johns Hopkins University, she is a former Fulbright Scholar.  She has taught at five universities on two continents and an island, and in a maritime studies program on the Atlantic Ocean. She is most interested in topics where humans and nature meet. 

Selected Publications

• Round about the Earth:  Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (2012)
• 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: Wednesdays 2-4pm

Curriculum Vitae

Intellectual History at Harvard

Harvard Center for the Enviroment