Joyce Chaplin Explained

Joyce Chaplin
Alma Mater:	Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University
Discipline:	History
Workplaces:	Vanderbilt University, Harvard University

Joyce E. Chaplin (born July 28, 1960, in Antioch, California) 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. She was a Guggenheim Fellow^[1] and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of 2019. ^[2] In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[3] She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.^[4]

Life

After receiving her BA from Northwestern University and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1986, she taught at Vanderbilt University 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., ^[5]
• The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius New York : Basic Books, 2006., ^[6]
• Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012., ^[7]
• with Alison Bashford, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016.,

External links

• Faculty page at Harvard University
• http://heymancenter.org/people/joyce-chaplin/

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Joyce E. Chaplin. en-US. 2019-07-05.
2. Web site: 2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election. members.amacad.org. dead. 2020-03-05. 2020-03-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20200302174101/https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx.
3. Web site: The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2020.
4. Web site: Journal of the History of Ideas, "Editorial Board & Publication Staff".
5. Taylor, Alan (8 October 2001). "Blood and Soil". The New Republic. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
6. Waldstreicher, David (2007). "American Genius Studies: Benjamin Franklin at 300" Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 324330. Retrieved 19 June 2014 .
7. Barcott, Bruce (28 December 2012). "They Get Around". New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2014.