October 15, 2015
Joyce E. Chaplin
"For centuries, the powerful would never hold anything useful for themselves. How did devices become universal luxuries?" Read more...
Joyce E. Chaplin
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
A former Fulbright Scholar, she has taught at six different universities on two continents, an island, and a peninsula, and in a maritime studies program on the Atlantic Ocean. She is most interested in topics where humans and nature meet, including subjects in early American history, intellectual history, the history of science, and environmental history. Read More >