Joseph Warren Dauben (born December 29, 1944, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

His PhD thesis The early development of Cantorian Set Theory was supervised by Dirk Struik.

[6] In 1985–1994 Dauben served as the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.

[7] Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin on Karl Marx's mathematical work.

[4][10] In 2012 he received the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).