Subdivision
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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Joyce E. Chaplin | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1960 | | | | | | |
Joyce Chaplin is currently James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1986, after which she spent a decade and a half at Vanderbilt University before moving to Harvard.
Joyce Chaplin is a wide-ranging and innovative historian of early America who has made a special study of Benjamin Franklin, colonialism, and environment. Her interests include the oceans as trading routes and she has occasionally taught in a maritime studies program. She is director of the American Studies program at Harvard. Her book, Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (2012), has been translated into several languages. She is perhaps best known for her biography, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006). Other interests include historical food studies. She is currently a Guggenheim Fellow working on a history of resource conservation, climate change, and settler colonialism, “The Franklin Stove: Heat and Life in the Little Ice Age.”
Joyce Chaplin has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2006) and the Sidney N. Zubrow Award of the Pennsylvania Hospital (2006). She is a member of the American Antiquarian Society (2007), Massachusetts Historical Society (fellow & trustee 2008), and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (2011). In addition to those mentioned earlier, her works include: 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; Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity, 2009; Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Norton Critical Edition, 2012; (edited with with P. Freedman, K. Albala) Food in Time and Place, 2014; (edited with D. McMahon) Genealogies of Genius, 2015; (with A. Bashford) The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population, 2016. Joyce Chaplin was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2020. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Alan Taylor | | | Institution: | University of Virginia | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
A graduate of Colby College (1977), Alan Taylor received his Ph.d in American History from Brandeis University in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Virginia)1985-1987, he taught at Boston University, 1987-1994; the University of California at Davis, 1994-2014; and the University of Virginia, where he holds the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair, 2014- .
Taylor has published nine books: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (1990); William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic, (1995); American Colonies (2001); Writing Early American History (2005); The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2006); The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies (2010); The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia (2013); American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (2016); Thomas Jefferson’s Education (2019).
William Cooper’s Town won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Pulitzer Prizes. The Internal Enemy won the Pulitzer Prize for American history and the Merle Curti Prize for Social History (OAH). American Colonies won the 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. The Divided Ground won the 2007 Society for Historians of the Early Republic book prize and the 2004-7 Society of the Cincinnati triennial book prize. The Civil War of 1812 won the Empire State History Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize.
His current book project, entitled, American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850, examines the social and political history of this nation, with an emphasis on territorial expansion and relations with Canada, Haiti, Mexico, and Native Americans.
For a dozen years, he served as the faculty advisor for the California State Social Science and History Project, which provides curriculum support and professional development for K-12 teachers in history and social studies. In 2002 he won the University of California at Davis Award for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement and the Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Association, Teaching Excellence Award. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2020. | |
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