#  Joyce Chaplin 

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

 

 

 



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 Joyce Chaplin's research interests include early American history, intellectual history, and environmental history. Her most recent book was *[Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity](http://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/dibner-library-lectures/2006Chaplin.pdf)* (2008). She is currently writing a 500-year history of around-the-world travel. [Read more.](https://scholar.harvard.edu/joycechaplin)