Joyce Chaplin

After receiving her BA from Northwestern University and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1986, she taught at Vanderbilt UniversityinNashville for fourteen years (1986-2000). She became Professor of History at Harvard in 2000.

• An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ISBN 9780807846131, OCLC 916396138
• Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780674004535, OCLC 924957626 ^[5]
• The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius New York : Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 9780465009558, OCLC 62897551^[6]
• Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781416596196, OCLC 779266177^[7]
• with Alison Bashford, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780691164199, OCLC 995299915

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