Joyce E. Chaplin (PhD and MA Johns Hopkins, BA Northwestern) is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has taught at five universities on two continents and an island, 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. While at the Neubauer Collegium, she worked on a co-authored book with Alison Bashford, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus (Princeton University Press, 2016). After that, she began another book on the place of nature in western historical writing.