Joyce E. Chaplin (born July 28, 1960, in

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) is an American historian and academic known for her writing and research on early American history, environmental history, and intellectual history. She is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at

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. She was a

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and

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Fellow of 2019. In 2020 she was elected to the

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. She is on the Editorial Board of the

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Life

After receiving her BA from

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and her PhD from

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in 1986, she taught at

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for fourteen years (1986-2000). She became Professor of History at Harvard in 2000.

Selected works

* ''An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. , * ''Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676'' Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. , * ''The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius'' New York : Basic Books, 2006. , * ''Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit'' New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. , Barcott, Bruce (28 December 2012)
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''. Retrieved 19 June 2014. * with Alison Bashford, ''The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population'', Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016. ,

References

External links

Faculty page
at Harvard University * http://heymancenter.org/people/joyce-chaplin/ Harvard University Department of History faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni 1960 births Living people Members of the American Philosophical Society Benjamin Franklin Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American women historians Vanderbilt University faculty {{US-historian-stub