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[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
2023
* January 9 [C]
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship (John Carter Brown Library - and other JCB fellowships)
* February 1. [C - since 1 November 2022]. Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships for use, inter alia, with cartographic material from the
Stephen S. Clark Library, Unversity of Michigan)
* March 5. 17th ICA Commission Conference: Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (Thessaloniki, 24-26 May 2023).
* April 1 (also October 1) [P]. Explokart Fellowship (Amsterdam) - for information contact: info(at)cart-hist-
cathedra.nl
* ['Applications for the 2024 program will open in early 2023']. National Library of Australia Fellowships (Canberra)
* May 1 [P]. Helen Wallis Fellowship
(British Library)
* June. The application for the 2024-2025 Fellowship will be available in June 2023:
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)
* July 18 [?]. The
California Map Society and the David Rumsey Map Center Annual Student Exhibition Competition ('The curatorial competition is
open to all undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in a degree-granting institution in one of the states in the
census-defined West Region of the U.S. and working towards an undergraduate or graduate degree.' This repalaces an annual award
for outstanding student scholarship)
* 'Check back in August'.
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Short-term Research Fellowships)
* September 15 [C].
Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship (John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society at the
Library of Congress)
* October 1 (also April 1) [P]. Explokart Fellowship (Amsterdam) - for information contact: info(at)cart-hist-
cathedra.nl
* November 1. [?]. Long-term Fellowships (Newberry Library)
* December 1 ['Currently closed' - noted September 2022]. 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)
[deadline dates 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]:
* January 9 [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.
* 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 20 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and
Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)
* January 23 [C].
Short-Term Research Fellowships (New York Public Library)
* January 31 [C]. National Maritime Museum
Research Fellowships (London, Greenwich).
* February 13. International workshop: 'On the Origin and Evolution of the
Nautical Chart', organised by Project Medea-Chart, at the Instituto Hidrográfico (Lisbon, 25-26 May 2023).
* February 20. [C]. A Rare Book School course taught by Matthew Edney, Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900, at the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville (11-16 June 2023).
* March 15. International conference: Conquering the World through Cartography: The Imperialist Turn in 19th and 20th Century Mapping, jointly
hosted by the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and
the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (for details see Here) (Brussels, 30-31 May 2023 [hybrid]).
* March 15. Proposals for essays in a forthcoming Brill publication, with
full contributions due in May 2024. The provisional title is "Medieval Borders and the Environment". Among the
themes mentioned are 'Geography and Cartography, including Human Geography' and 'Toponymy (especially in
connection with environmental features and elemental theory)'. For more information: elisa.ramazzina@unipv.it
* April 1 [C].
London Topographical Society. Ann Saunders Essay Prize.
* April 12 ['not currently available' 3 January 2023]. 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 [apparently in abeyance]. 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 17. [Call for papers deadline]. Annual conference of the
Society for the History of Discoveries: 'Worlds of Exploration' (James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, September 21-24).
* May 1 [?]. Graduate
Scholar-in-Residence program at the Newberry Library, Chicago (for advanced PhD students for the period
September-May).
May 31. [Call for papers deadline]. 'Art(s) and mapping(s)': Symposium of the history commission of the Comité français de cartographie, at the Institut
national d'histoire de l'art (Paris, November 25). Contact: catherine.hofmann@bnf.fr
* June 1 [P]. 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))
* June 24 [C]. Ian Mumford Award (British Cartographic Society), for university and college
students where cartography, maps or mapping forms the principal subject of research
* June 26 [C]. Dr Bennie Ng Scholarship - for research in the National Library’s maps collection [NB. Started 2024.]
June 30. [Call for papers deadline]. Oxford. Online map conference of The Oxford Seminars in Cartography [TOSCA]:
'Artful maps: exploring the visual culture of cartography' (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 26 September).
* ['The next call for applications for fellowships in 2024 will be published here in August
2023']. Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship Programme at the Research Library Gotha and the Gotha Research Centre of
the University of Erfurt. See also the Bewerbung.
* 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 [C]. The
Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Award (for 'advanced research in the History of the Book', with maps
specifically included)
* October 3 [?]. Bibliographical
Society of America (Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography). See also Application Guidelines.
* October 24. [?]. Leventhal Map
& Education Center Small Grants Fund for Early Career Digital Publications
* November 1. [?]. 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 (?). Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Research Fellowships for Graduate Students)
* December 15 [?]. Short-term Fellowships
in the History of Cartography (Newberry Library). See also Dates and Deadlines.
* December 31 [?]. ISHMap Prize
in Map History [Along with other awards, "Budget permitting, the Trustees intend to offer each award every
two years"
Nederlands
Scheepvaartmuseum (see for details of the Crone and Warnsinck Fellowships)
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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