Joseph Fletcher

Joseph Francis Fletcher Jr. (1934–1984) was an American historian of China and Central Asia and a professor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department of Harvard University. His main areas of research included interaction between the Islamic and Chinese worlds, Manchu and Mongol studies.

Biography Fletcher graduated from Harvard University in 1957. He received his PhD from Harvard's Department of Far Eastern Languages in 1965 and became an assistant professor within the department a year later. In 1972, he was appointed professor of Chinese and Central Asian History.

Personal life Fletcher was the son of Joseph Fletcher, an ethicist. Fletcher had two children. is an early argument in favor of applying the early modern periodization to all of Eurasia and a preliminary exploration of its global applicability.