Research Project

Armitage-Chaplin

Project Team:

2014 – 2015

Project Summary

This project supported the Visiting Fellowships of David Armitage and Joyce Chaplin, intellectual historians working at the forefront of Atlantic, global, and environmental history.

Topics

History

Research Team

David Armitage

Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History

Harvard University

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair (2012-14, 2015-16) of the Department of History at Harvard University. Among his fifteen books are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global ...

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Joyce Chaplin

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Harvard University

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 ...

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Jennifer Pitts

Professor and Associate Chair, Political Science

University of Chicago

Jennifer Pitts is the author of Boundaries of the International (Harvard 2018), which explores European debates over legal relations with extra-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the co-editor, with Adom Getachew, of W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought, a ...

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