Faculty Member, History
Thesis Title: The South Sea Company and Anglo-Spanish Connections, 1713-1739
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Joyce Chaplin
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About
I am an assistant professor of early American history at the University of Kansas. I am working on my first book manuscript, “The South Sea Company and Anglo-Spanish Connections, 1713-1739,” which explores the close interactions between individuals of the British and Spanish empires through the slave trade in the early eighteenth-century Caribbean.
Currently I hold a two-year fellowship at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. My research interests include contact between peoples in the early modern Atlantic world, the history of race and gender in early European colonies, and the history of beliefs about witchcraft in early America. I have held fellowships through the John Carter Brown Library and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in Early American History.
