John Harpham is a Lecturer on Social Studies. He is an historian of political thought and intellectual historian. His research examines ideas about slavery, freedom, and race, as well as the relation of such ideas to practices of enslavement and resistance across the Atlantic world. He is at work on a three-volume series about the ideas that were associated with the origins, development, and eventual abolition of slavery in the Anglo-American Atlantic world. The first volume in this series—titled The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery—is forthcoming with Harvard University Press in the Fall of 2024. In addition, he has published academic articles in a number of journals, and his reviews and review essays have appeared in both academic and popular venues. He received his doctorate from the Department of Government at Harvard, and he has served as a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago.

2023-24 Courses
Social Studies 10a: Introduction to Social Studies (Fall)
Social Studies 10b: Introduction to Social Studies (Spring)
Social Studies 98we.Encounters: Dimensions of the Travel Narrative (Spring)