Calendar of Deadlines in the history of cartography

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Calendar of Deadlines in the History of Cartography

(for fellowship and prize applications, submission of paper proposals for meetings, or special issues of journals)

[Note. Most of the fellowship and prize deadlines recur annually [marked with *] and those will therefore be left on this page after the date has passed. Be aware that the date may change from one year to the next, and should always be checked. Where institutions have not yet updated their site, the previous year's deadline is left, followed by a question-mark. Otherwise, the date is followed by [C] indicating that the next deadline has been confirmed and noted or [P] for permanently fixed dates

Latest general updating: 5 January 2022

2022

* January 1 [C]. London Topographical Society. Ann Saunders Essay Prize.

* January 14 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)

* January 15 [C]. Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography (William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

* January 15 [C]. Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship (for younger scholars - William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan)

* January 15 [C] Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship (John Carter Brown Library) [and other JCB fellowships]

* January 31 [C]. Short-Term Research Fellowships (New York Public Library)

* January 31. [Applications are currently closed]. Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships for use, inter alia, with cartographic material from the Stephen S. Clark Library, Unversity of Michigan)

* January 31 [?]. The Hakluyt Society Short-Term Fellowship

February 1 [C]. Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellowship sponsored by the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland and the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island.

February 1 (C). Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Research Fellowships for Graduate Students)

* March 2 [?]. California Map Society / Rumsey Map Center Paper Award (open to undergraduate and graduate students in California that use the Center's map resources in a substantive way)

March 15 [Deadline for abstracts]. 16th Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH), in partnership with the Faculty of Geography, Babes–Bolyai University, supported by MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (Cluj- Napoca, Romania, 22-24 September 2022).

* April 1 [C]. Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship in Cartography (John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society at the Library of Congress)

* April 1 (also October 1) [?]. Explokart Fellowship (Amsterdam) - for information contact: info(at)cart-hist- cathedra.nl

* April 12 [?]. Leventhal Map & Education Center Public Research Fellows in History and Geography (between one and three weeks in residence at the LMEC, Boston Public Library)

* April 15 [?]. Postdoctoral fellowship in the Digital History and Geography of the American Revolutionary War Era (The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library)

* April 26 [?]. National Library of Australia Fellowships (Canberra)

* May 1 [P]. Helen Wallis Fellowship (British Library)

* May 1 [?]. Graduate Scholar-in-Residence program at the Newberry Library, Chicago (for advanced PhD students for the period September-May).

* June 1 [?]. Society for the History of Discoveries Student Essay Prizes

* June 1 [P]. Walter W Ristow Essay Prize (Washington Map Society)

* June 1 ['We expect to announce new information about our applications for the 2022-23 grant cycle in the near future. For more information, you can also contact the Travel to Collections Grant Committee at lib- sasctravel@uflib.ufl.edu.']. Travel to Collections Grant (Department of Special and Area Studies Collection at the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, for research in the collections (including the Map & Imagery Library))

* July 18 [C - extended from 28 June]. Ian Mumford Award (British Cartographic Society), for university and college students where cartography, maps or mapping forms the principal subject of research

* August 15. [C - 'Applications for 2022-23 will open August 15' [2021]]; the deadline is November 1. Long-term Fellowships (Newberry Library)

* September 24 [The deadline to apply for a 2021-2022 Cullman Center Fellowship has passed; that for the 2022-2023 Fellowship is 24 September 2021]. Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (fellowship for work on the collections of the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library - of which the The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division forms a part)
https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library/fellowships.shtml

* September 30 ["Suspended due to Lilly Library renovation"]. Mendel Fellowship (a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington)

* September 30 [?]. [Open from June 1st].The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Award (for 'advanced research in the History of the Book', with maps specifically included)

* September 30 [?]. Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship Programme at the Research Library Gotha and the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt

* October 1 (also April 1) [?]. Explokart Fellowship (Amsterdam) - for information contact: info(at)cart-hist- cathedra.nl

* October 1 [?]. Bibliographical Society of America (Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography).

October 31 [Application deadline] Symposium VI of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap), for advanced students, junior researchers and early career professionals (Montevideo, Uruguay, 12-13 May 2022).

* November 1. [?] Long-term Fellowships (Newberry Library)

* November 1 [P]. J.B. Harley Research Fellowships (London)

* November 15. [?] Huntington Library (applications from 31 August; a range of short- and long-term fellowships - San Marino, California)

* November 30 [?] American Geographical Society Library Fellowships (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

* November 30 [?] Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)

* November 30 [?] Hakluyt Society Essay Prize.

* December 1 ["Applications for the academic year 2021-2022 have been suspended until further notice"]. Bodleian Visiting Fellowships (short-term Visiting Fellowships for researchers who will benefit from an uninterrupted period of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries)

* December 1 (?). Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Short-term Research Fellowships)

* December 15 [?]. Short-term Fellowships in the History of Cartography (Newberry Library)

* December 31 [?]. ISHMap Prize in Map History [Along with other awards, "Budget permitting, the Trustees intend to offer each award every two years"

[deadline date unknown]. William and Madeline Welder Smith Travel Award (see the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History - University of Texas at Austin)

[different dates, check website]. State Library of New South Wales (various grants for Australian history, e.g. C.H. Currey, Nancy Keesing and Milt Luger Fellowships)

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