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

Antioch, California Antioch is the third-largest city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The city's population was 115,291 at the 2020 cen ...

) 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

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. She was a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

and

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

Fellow of 2019. In 2020 she was elected to the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

. She is on Editorial Board of the

Journal of the History of Ideas The ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering intellectual history and the history of ideas, including the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences, religion, an ...

Life

After receiving her BA from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

and her PhD from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

in 1986, she taught at

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

in Nashville 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 Alison Caroline Bashford, (born 1963) is an historian specialising in global history and the history of science. She is Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Popul ...

, ''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 faculty 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 {{US-historian-stub American women historians Vanderbilt University faculty