the expected completion date is given between square brackets. From January 2010, the date that the entry was added to this page is noted thus, e.g. {added January 2010}, which can be searched for.

Nadezhda Akhmetova, Orenburg University, Geography Department. [2008]. 'Istoriya geograficheskogo izucheniya i kartografirovaniya Orenburgskogo kraya' [A history of the geographical exploration and mapping of Orenburg Province in the eighteenth century]. For the Candidate of Science Degree. Email: renat(at)house.osu.ru

Joaquim Filipe Figueiredo Alves Gaspar, University: ISEGI - Universidade Nova de Lisboa. [2010]. 'From the portolan chart of the Mediterranean to the plane chart of the Atlantic: cartometric analysis and modelling'. Email: alvesgaspar(at)netcabo.pt

Isabelle Avila, Université de Paris XIII. [2010]. 'Cartographie et impérialisme en Grande-Bretagne et en France, 1870-1914'.

Jakeline Benavides Quecán, University of Groningen (Alfa-Informatica). [September 2007]. 'Measuring the Historical city: The reliability of historical land surveying methods and their use in virtual urban cartography'. Email: j.benavides(at) let.rug.nl     Webpage

Brett Bennett, University of Texas at Austin (History). [2011]. 'The Cartographic History of Forestry in the Indian Ocean'. Email: brebenne(at)mail.utexas.edu

Pamela Merrill Brekka, University of Florida (School of Art & Art History). [2012]. 'Philip II's Biblia Regia and the New World Indian-Jew Map as a Reflection of Late Sixteenth-Century Cultural Crosscurrents'. Email: pbrekka(at)ufl.edu {added April 2010}

Ray Lynn Brown, Northern Arizona University. [??]. 'Mapping the Grand Canyon, Joseph Christmas Ives and John Wesley Powell: Cartography, Culture, and Power'.

Renate Burri, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Seminar für Klassische Philologie). [April 2010]. 'Die Wiederentdeckung der Geographie des Ptolemaios' [Studies on the manuscript tradition of Ptolemy's Geography]. Email: Renate.Burri(at)phil.uni-goettingen.de

George S. Carhart, Universität Passau (History). [March 2010]. 'Frederick de Wit and the first Concise Reference Atlas: A reexamination of the Amsterdam map, print and art seller’s life, work and contribution to the distribution of cartographic knowledge in the second half of the 17th and early 18th centuries.'. Email: gcarhart(at)earthlink.net

Andreas Christoph, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik). [July 2010]. 'Ökonomisierung von Naturwissenschaft - Die Kartenproduktionen des Geographischen Instituts von Friedrich Justin Bertuch'. Email: Andreas.Christoph(at)uni-jena.de     Personal webpage

Stella A. Chrysochoou, Royal Holloway College, London University (Hellenic Institute, History Department). [February 2010]. 'The Cartographical Tradition of Ptolemy’s Geographike Hyphegesis in the Palaeologan Period and the Renaissance (13th-16th century)'. [Examining the cartographical data in the 16 illustrated Greek MSS of the 'Geographia'.] Email: stelchry(at)otenet.gr {added January 2010}

Vanessa Jane Collingridge, University of Glasgow (Geography and Earth Sciences). [2010-11]. 'Mapping Myths: the fantastic history of the Great Southern Continent'. Email: ness(at)monstermedia.tv

Amy Cutler, Royal Holloway, University of London (Cultural Geography). [2012]. 'Write off the map: Cartographic Practices and Twentieth Century British Poetry'. Email: amycutler1985(at)googlemail.com     Personal webpage {added April 2010}

Ségolène Débarre, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne (Geography). [end 2010]. 'Production cartographique des géographes européens dans l'Empire Ottoman au XIXe siècle'. Email: segolene_debarre(at)hotmail.com

Robert Engelbert, University of Ottawa. [??]. 'Beyond Borders: Mental Mapping and the French River World in North America, 763-1805'

Daniela Marzola Fialho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Programa de Pós-graduação em Historia (History), Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil. [March 2010]. ‘Cidades Visíveis: Para uma história da cartografia como documento de identidade urbana’ [Visible Cities: a history of cartography as a document of urban identity]. Email: dfialho.voy(at)terra.com.br

Susan Ford, Australian National University (Classics). [December 2010]. 'Geographic point of view in Homer and Herodotus'. [Comparing their presentations of space, and examining the 18th & 19th century reconstructions, which purport to illustrate the difference in geographical awareness of oral poet and fifth-century historian.] Email: susan.ford(at)anu.edu.au {added January 2010}

Bernd Giesen, Universität Bielefeld, Abteilung Geschichte, Schule für Historische Forschung/Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [end 2010]. 'Protonationale Topographien. Die Landkarten und Landesbeschreibungen in der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft 1480-1580'. Email: berndgiesen(at)gmx.de

Spyridon Gkounis, Ionian University (History). [end 2011]. [Desertum et mare: Depictions of Monsters and Monstrous Races in Medieval World Maps]. Email: s.gkounis(at)hotmail.com

Jorge Guzmán-Gutiérrez, University of Cambridge (Geography), Scott Polar Research Institute. [June 2011]. 'Mapping the Southern Polar Region: a geographical history of Antarctica from 1501 to 1993'. Email: jgg29(at)cam.ac.uk

Alexander Hidalgo, University of Arizona, Tucson (History). [Spring 2011]. 'The Imaginary Frontier: Cartography and Ideology in New Spain, 1600-1800' [dealing with exchanges in cartographic techniques and geographic knowledge between Spanish Americans and Amerindians in the period leading up to the Enlightenment.] Email: ahidalgo(at)email.arizona.edu

Lowri M. Jones, Royal Holloway University of London (Geography). [2009]. 'The hidden histories of exploration'. Email: L.M.Jones(at)rhul.ac.uk

Imants Ļaviņš, University of Latvia (History and Philosophy), Riga. [2010]. 'Skandinavijas un Austrumeiropas regiona attelojums viduslaiku arabu kartografija' [Depiction of Scandinavia and the East European region in Early Islamic Cartography.] Email: imauts(at)inbox.lv   Also: dlmm.dace(at)apollo.lv

Jeffers Lennox, Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS). [??]. 'An Atlantic Borderland: Mapping, Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Nova Scotia/L'Acadie/Mi'kma'ki, 1710-84'

Joseph F. Loh, Columbia University, New York City (Art History and Archaeology). [mid-2006]. ‘When Worlds Collide: Art, Cartography, and World View in Early Modern Japan’. Email: jfl20(at)columbia.edu

Dariusz Lorek, Zaklad Kartografii i Geomatyki, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poznan, Poland. [May 2011]. 'Potencjal informacyjny map topograficznych z lat 1828-32 (Urmesstischblätter) z terenu Wielkopolski' [Information potential of topographic maps from the years 1828-32 (Prussian Urmesstischblätter) of Greater Poland]. Email: kubal(at)amu.edu.pl

Lilla Lukács, Eötvös Loránd University (Cartography and Geoinformatics), Budapest, Hungary. [2009]. [The landscape-representation of maps of the Carpathian Basin.] Email: l_lukacs(at)freemail.hu

Julie McDougall, University of Edinburgh (Institute of Geography) and in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland. [2012]. 'The production of school atlases in the context of British geographical education, c.1880-c.1930'. Email: J. McDougall-2(at)sms.ed.ac.uk

Jamie McGowan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Geography). [??]. Provisional title: 'Conventional Signs, Imperial Designs: The Surveying and Mapping of Colonial Ghana, 1874-1963'. Email: jmcgowan(at)uiuc.edu

Mira Miletić-Drder, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Philosophy. [2009/10]. 'Kartografske zbirke u Hrvatskoj: model virtualnog povezivanja' [Map Collections in Croatia: a virtual connecting model]. Email: mmiletic-drder(at)nsk.hr

Luís Miguel Moreira, University of Minho (Social Sciences Institute). [2011]. 'Cartografia, Geografia e Poder: o processo de construção da imagem cartográfica de Portugal, na segunda metade do século XVIII' [Cartography, Geography and Power: the building process of Portugal's cartographical image in the second half of the eighteenth century]. Email: lmmgeo(at) gmail.com

Maria Pazarli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Surveying Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Surveying. [end 2010]. 'Sygritike analyse tes "Khartas" tou Rega Velestinle (1797) kai tou "Pinaka" tou Anthimou Gaze (1800)' [On the comparative analysis of Rigas Velestinlis "Charta" (1797) and of Anthimos Gazis "Pinax" (1800)]. Email: pazarli(at)topo.auth.gr {added February 2010}

Jana Phifer, University of California at Los Angeles (History). [??]. 'Carolinian Maps, 10th and 11th Century'.

Steve Emanuel Arseen Philips, Ghent University (Early modern history). [July 2007]. 'Cartografie en cartografen in de Lage Landen' [Cartography and cartographers in the Low Countries]. Email: steve.philips(at)UGent.be

Nopi Ploutoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Surveying Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Surveying. [end 2011]. 'E "emi-epistemonike" khartographia tes Elladas (1821-1830): Franz von Weiss kai Pierre Lapie' [The "Semi-scientific" cartography of Greece (1821-1830): Franz von Weiss and Pierre Lapie]. Email: plouto(at)topo.auth.gr {added February 2010 }

Amy Prior, University of Edinburgh (Institute of Geography) and in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland. [2012]. "The Cartographic Conception and Representation of Africa in British 'popular' cartography". Email: A.D.Prior(at)sms.ed.ac.uk.

Ismo Pentti Kalervo Puhakka, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (History and Ethnology). [end 2011]. [Images of Omnipotence. Pastor Antoine du Pinet and the Impact of the Reformation on Knowledge and Space in the Mid 16th Century Cartography.] Email: ippuhakk(at)cc.jyu.fi

Kathleen Pullum, Birkbeck, University of London. [2011]. 'Mapping the Scientific Frontier: Towards a Critical Cartography of Late-nineteenth Century Afghanistan'. Email: kpullum(at) gmail.com {added February 2010}

Catharine Dann Roeber, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (History). [2010]. 'Building and Planting: Pennsylvania Geographies, 1681-1750' [including discussion of the maps by Thomas Holme and others.]. Email: ccdann(at)wm.edu

Ralph Ruch, Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [2009]. 'Herrschaftliche Kartierung als Instrument lokaler Verwaltung'. Email: ralph.ruch(at)gmx.ch

Asao Sarukawa, University of East Anglia, Norwich (World Art Studies and Museology). [September 2007]. 'Representing the City in Edo Japan: Experience, Place and Environment' [dealing with early modern Japanese commercial city maps of Tokyo and Kyoto]. Email: a.sarukawa(at)uea.ac.uk

Olaf Petrus Nicolaas Satijn, Groningen Institute of Archaeology. [2006]. 'A socio-economic and political landscape archaeology of transition: Southern Lazio from the late Roman period to incastellamento'. Email: O.P.N.Satijn(at)let.rug.nl

Bettina Schöller, Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [??]. 'Kartographische Weltbilder des Mittelalters'. Email: bettina.schoeller(at)access.uzh.ch

Kevin Sheehan, Durham University (Modern Languages and Cultures). [2011-12]. Provisional title: 'The Toponymy of Portolan Charts'. Email: k.e.sheehan(at)dur.ac.uk {added January 2010}

Avan Stallard, University of Queensland (History). [2010]. 'Antipodes to Terra Australis'. Email: avanstallard(at)gmail.com

Eva Stamoulou, University of Manchester (Art History and Visual Studies). [September 2010]. 'The Venetian Oltremare: Identity and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean.' Email: eva.stamoulou(at)postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Diantha Steinhilper, Florida State University, Tallahassee (Art History). [2012]. [No title yet but it would involve the 1524 map of Tenochtitlan.] Email: dsteinhilper(at)comcast.net

Andreas Steinsieck, Technische Universität Braunschweig (Historisches Seminar). [2008]. [War Correspondents in the South African War (1899-1902)] (including a chapter: "Öffentliche Kriegskarten. Die Bedeutung von Karten für die Rezeption des Südafrikanischen Krieges" [Public War Maps. The Role of Maps in the Public Perception of the South African War]). Email: a.steinsieck(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Martijn Storms (drs), Universiteit Utrecht. [2010]. 'Het gebruik van prekadastrale kaartboeken van Nederlands grondgebied' [The use of estate atlases of Dutch territory]. Email: m.storms(at)geo.uu.nl

Angeliki Tsorlini, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Surveying Engineering, Department of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography. [end 2010]. 'E arithmitike synistosa tes "Geografias" tou Klaudiou Ptolemaiou'. [The numerical component of Claudius Ptolemaeus "Geographia"]. Email: atsorlin(at)topo.auth.gr {added February 2010}

Gene Rhea Tucker, University of Texas at Arlington (Transatlantic History). [2010]. 'The Syncretization of Place-Names: Spanish and Amerindian Conceptions of Place in the New World'. Email: gene.tucker(at)mavs.uta.edu {added February 2010}

Karl Whittington, University of California at Berkeley (History of Art). [2010]. 'The Body-Worlds of Opicino de Canistris, Artist and Visionary (1296-ca.1354)'. Email: karlwhittington(at)berkeley.edu

Laura York, University of California - Los Angeles (History). [September 2007]. 'Writing and Selling the Book of the World: Early World Atlases, 1627-1721'. Email: lyork(at) ucla.edu

Lyudmila Zinchuk, Russian State Library's Department of Cartography. [2008?]. 'Istoriya zarubezhnogo vliyaniya na razvitie rossiyskoy nauchnoy kartografii v XVIII i XIX vekakh' [The history of foreign influences on the development of Russian scientific cartography in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries]. For the Candidate of Science Degree. Email: map(at)rsl.ru

Mary Peterson Zundo, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (Art History). [May 2010]. 'Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier'. Email: maryzundo(at)aol.com

Jakeline Benavides Quecán, University of Groningen (Alfa-Informatica). [September 2007]. 'Measuring the Historical city: The reliability of historical land surveying methods and their use in virtual urban cartography'

André Múrias Santos Ferrand de Almeida, European University Institute, Florence (History and Civilisation). [July 2006 {?}]. Provisional title: 'Religious Orders and the Organization of the Territory in the Amazon Basin (1680-1767)'.

Charles Neil Hoke, University of Houston (History ). [Spring 2005 {?}]. 'Conflicts and Compromises, Border Disputes and Boundary Settlements: A Study of the Evolution and History of the Political Geography of Texas, 1492 to Present'.

Joseph F. Loh, Columbia University, New York City (Art History and Archaeology). [mid-2006 {?}]. ‘When Worlds Collide: Art, Cartography, and World View in Early Modern Japan’.

Valentin Mandache, The London School of Economics and Political Science (International Relations). [October 2004 {?}]. 'The Russian-Romanian geopolitical encounter in Moldova: National identity in a peripheral state' [noting particularly Chapter 2: 'Historical geography: Moldova and the Carpathian-arc region'].

Steve Emanuel Arseen Philips, Ghent University (Early modern history). [July 2007]. 'Cartografie en cartografen in de Lage Landen' [Cartography and cartographers in the Low Countries].

Mark Romans, University of Southampton (History). [Summer 2004 {?}]. 'Military Intelligence in Wellington's Army'.

Asao Sarukawa, University of East Anglia, Norwich (World Art Studies and Museology). [September 2007]. 'Representing the City in Edo Japan: Experience, Place and Environment' [dealing with early modern Japanese commercial city maps of Tokyo and Kyoto].

Olaf Petrus Nicolaas Satijn, Groningen Institute of Archaeology. [2006 {?}]. 'A socio-economic and political landscape archaeology of transition: Southern Lazio from the late Roman period to incastellamento'.

Laura York, University of California - Los Angeles (History). [September 2007]. 'Writing and Selling the Book of the World: Early World Atlases, 1627-1721'

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