Joyce Chaplin

Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.  Her interests include topics in the history of science and in environmental history.  She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit:  Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter:  Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), and The First Scientific American:  Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006).  She is currently writing a history of circumnavigation.

Contact information: Joyce Chaplin, History Department