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Catherine AKEROYD (Australian National University). 'Depicting Terra Australis: an analysis of the iconography on the southern continent of Renaissance maps 1508-1690' [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2015].
Professor James ALSOP (Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada). 'Map Culture and England's Overseas Expansion, c.1550-1620'. [1997].
Carolyn ANDERSON (University of Edinburgh). 'Constructing the Military Landscape: Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland c.1707 to c.1815'. [2008].
Dr Nick BARON (Department of History, University of Nottingham). 'Mapping the Soviet: Cartography and the Construction of Stalinist Space, 1917-1941'. [2006].
Dr Ian J. BARROW (Department of History, Middlebury College, Vermont). 'Mapping India, Making Britain: Cartography and the Colonial Nation State'. [1999].
Romário Sampaio BASÍLIO (FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal). ‘British Mapping and Cartographical Discourses through the Anglo-Brazilian Boundary Definition in the Guianas (c.1814-c.1904)'. [2022].
Ken BAUER (Dartmouth College, USA). 'Exploring Tibetan cartography through the Wise Collection, British Library'. [2018].
Martha BELL (Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography). ‘Andean Gristmills: the emergence of new Environmental, Social and Technological Landscapes and Spanish Colonialism’. [2010].
Brett M. BENNETT (University of Texas at Austin). ‘The Cartographic History of State Forestry in the British Indian Ocean 1850-1950’. [2009].
Professor Jeremy BLACK (Department of History, University of Durham). 'A Study of Historical Atlases'. [1995].
Dr Lisa BLANSETT (Department of English, Florida International University). 'Cartographies: British Fiction and Mapping, 1660-1817'. [1996].
Dr Stéphane BLOND (University of Evry-Val d'Essonne, Department of History). ‘Administrative road maps in Europe: 1650-1800’. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2010].
Beatrice BLÜMER, University of Kassel, Germany, 'The Liber insularum Archipelagi by Cristoforo Buondelmonti'. [2024].
Emily BOAK (Master’s Degree student, University of Calgary). ‘Imperial vision and early British cartography in Afghanistan ,1839-1919. [Supported by the Historical Geographers Research Group (HGRG)]. [2019].
Molly BOURNE (Department of Fine Art, Harvard University). 'Francesco II Gonzaga and Early Renaissance Collecting in Italy'. [1997].
Nathan BRACCIO (University of Connecticut). 'Clashing New Englands: Identity and the Parallel Geographies of Algonquian and English New England, 1600-1730'. [2017].
Professor Elio BRANCAFORTE (Tulane University, New Orleans). 'Iran through Western Eyes: Representations of Safavid Persia in Early-Modern European Travel Narratives and Maps (1501-1722)'. [2008].
Lindsay F. BRAUN (Department of History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey). 'Imperial and National Cartographies of South Africa, 1835-1948'. [2000].
Ben BREEN (University of Texas at Austin, Department of History). ‘Mapping Nature: Cartography as a Conduit for Natural Knowledge, 1660-1740’. [2010.]
Dr Sonja BRENTJES (Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). 'The use of Arabic and Persian sources in Western-European maps of the Middle East and Northern Africa between 1550 and 1700'. [2001].
LauraLee BROTT, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. ‘The Holy Land within the Manuscript: Performative Cartography in BL Add. MS 10049’. [2023].
Dr Mead T. CAIN (Independent researcher, New York). 'The Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge'. [1994].
Dr Mercedes Maroto CAMINO (Department of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand). 'Maps, Vision and Power in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland'. [1995].
Angelo CATTANEO (European University Institute, Florence, Italy). 'Mid-15th century Venetian cartography: a comparative study of a forgotten Ptolemy's Geography (Bib. Marciana MS. CL.VI, XXIV), the Harley Codex 3686 and the Venetian Portolani of the British Library'. [2004].
Dr Angelo CATTANEO (research associate, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal). ‘16th- 17th-Century Portuguese Manuscript Cartography Held in London Collections: Study of Patterns of Circulation and Forms of Reception (16th-19th Centuries)’. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2011].
Dr Louis CELLAURO (research associate, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Lyons, Institute of History): ‘The Eternal City: Sixteenth-Century Maps of Ancient and Modern Rome in the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Albums’. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2011].
Roberto CHAUCA (University of Florida). 'Science in the Jungle: the missionary mapping and national imaginings of western Amazonia'. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2014].
Dr Karen COOK (Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas), 'Reinventing George Bellas Greenough as a Map Designer'. [2012]
Julia CUMMISKEY (Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University). 'Viral Cartographies: Mapping Disease in Uganda, 1936-1979'. [2015]
Professor Michael F. DAVIE (Department of Geography, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France). 'Mapping of the Levant, 1840 to 1920'. [2000].
Dr Lisa DAVIS ALLEN (University of Texas at Tyler, College of Arts & Sciences, United States). 'Abraham Ortelius's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum": frontispiece and author's portrait, variation of color palettes in multiple language editions'. [2002].
Dr Martin DODGE (University of Manchester, Department of Geography). ‘War Time Civilian Cartography: Investigating the Mapping of Manchester Before, During and After the Second World War’. [2010].
Juliette DUMASY-RABINEAU, Université d’Orléans, France. ‘Local Maps in Medieval England, Italy and France: a Comparative Study’. [2023].
Dr Jordana DYM (Skidmore College, New York, USA), 'The cartography of western travel writers, 1600–1930'. [2013].
Dr. S. Max EDELSON (Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign). ‘The New Map of Empire: Cartography and Colonization in British America, 1763-1783’. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2009].
Felicia M. ELSE (Department of Art History, Washington University, St Louis). 'The Depiction of Waterways and Bridges in Sixteenth-Century Maps of Florence and Tuscany'. [2000].
Charlotte EVANS, University of Manchester, UK, 'The Cartographical Waterscapes of the Survey of India 1905-1947'. [2024].
Anna FEINTUCK (University of Edinburgh). 'The production and use of cartographic knowledge: a case study of Charles E Goad's fire insurance plans of Edinburgh and Leith, 1891-1906'. [2016].
Dr G.E.M. FISKE (independent scholar, USA), 'British cartography of Afghanistan on the eve of the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839–1842'. [2013].
David FLAHERTY (doctoral student, University of Virginia, Department of History). ‘British Visions of Empire and the Aggressive Imperial Project for the North American Frontier, 1713-1783’. [2011].
Guenièvre FOURNIER (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseilles, France). 'Views and maps of Marseilles, Genoa and Barcelona (15th-19th centuries)'. [2003].
María Cecilia GALLERO (Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Humanos, IESyH-CONICET-UNaM, Argentina). 'Mapping Misiones, Argentina from a Historical Cartographic perspective'. [2025].
Dr Gretchen E. GAYNOR (Independent scholar, United States). 'John Dee's scientific contribution as a geographer and cartographer'. [2002].
Allegra GIOVINE (University of Pennsylvania). 'The Political Meaning of Maps: L. Dudley Stamp and the economic map of nature in Burma and Britain, c. 1920 – 1945'. [2014].
Spyridon GKOUNIS (The Ionian University, Greece, Department of History). ‘Desertum et mare; Depictions of Monsters and Monstrous Races in Medieval World Maps'. [2009].
Danielle GRAVON (University of Manchester). 'The fabrica of Mercator’s Atlas and the anatomy of the world'. [2018].
Galia HALPERN (doctoral student, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts). ‘Open Geography and the Illuminated Mandeville’s Travels’. [2011].
Professor Francis HARVEY (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig). ‘Bertin and graphic design’. [2019].
Robert IMES (University of Saskatchewan). 'A History of Leicestershire Chorographies: From Leland to Burton'. [ Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2015].
Dr Marco IULIANO (University of Naples). 'The city in wood: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore and the map of Constantinople circa 1520'. [2007].
Philip JAGESSAR (doctoral student, History of Geography Department, University of Nottingham. ‘Orienting empire in an oriental society: The acquisition, circulation, and mobilisation of maps in the Royal Asiatic Society, 1823 – 1950’. [2021].
Phillip KOYOUMJIAN (University of Rochester, USA). 'A geographer’s world: Herman Moll and the British map trade, 1678-1732'. [2018].
Imants ĻAVIŅŠ (University of Riga, Latvia), 'The depiction of eastern Europe and Scandinavia in early medieval Islamic cartography'. [2013.]
Radu LECA (Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden). 'A Comprehensive Analysis of Collections of Japanese Maps Related to Philip Franz von Siebold (1796-1866)'. [2017].
Dr Claire LEMOINE-ISABEAU (Musée Royal de l'Armée, Brussels). 'Histoire de la cartographie du territoire belge'. [1994].
Jeffers LENNOX (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada). 'An Atlantic Borderland: Mapping, Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Nova Scotia / l'Acadie / Mi'kma'ki, 1710-1784'. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2008].
Professor Elri LIEBENBERG (University of South Africa, Pretoria). 'Nineteenth-century Historical Cartography of Southern Africa, 1790 until 1920'. [2015]
Carla LOIS (University of Buenos Aires, Instituto de Geografía, Argentina). 'Mapping the Mare Occidentale: from Mare Tenebrorum to Atlantic Ocean (1490-1600)'. [2007].
Dr Pamela O. LONG (independent scholar, Washington). ‘Engineering the Eternal City: Power, Knowledge, and Urbanization in Rome, 1557-1590’. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2011].
Julie McDOUGALL (doctoral student, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Geography). ‘The Development and Publishing History of School Atlases and British Geography c.1880 – c.1930’. [2011].
Jamie McGOWAN (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). ‘Conventional Signs, Imperial Designs: The Surveying and Mapping of Colonial Ghana, 1874-1963’. [2009].
Jessica MAIER (Columbia University, Department of Art History, New York, U.S.A.). 'Imaging Rome: the art and science of Renaissance city views'. [2004].
Dr Niels van MANEN (Postdoctoral Researcher, VU University Amsterdam), 'Mapping fire risk: Goad's Insurance Plans'. [2012].
Dr Annaleigh MARGEY (Trinity College, Dublin). 'Mapping Ireland, c. 1550-1640'. [2006].
Caroline MARRIS (Columbia University, New York). ' "The Silver Sea" and the Nation-State: The Multifaceted Geopolitics of the Early Modern English Channel'. [2017].
Carolina MARTÍNEZ, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM-CONICET), Argentina, 'Mapping the Polar Regions: the Geopolitical Uses of the "Thule" Toponym in the Early Modern Atlantic World (16th-18th C.)'. [2024].
Elizabeth MONTAÑEZ-SANABRIA, University of California, Davis, USA. ‘Piracy and Mapping: Cartographical Knowledge and Imperial Political Decision Making in the Opening of the Spanish South Sea’. [2023].
John MOORE (Collections Manager, University of Glasgow Library). 'British Directory Maps: an analysis of the maps accompanying the local directories of Scotland and Wales'. [2016].
Florin-Stefan MORAR (Harvard University). 'The Maps of Myriad Kingdoms: Translation and the Circulation of Cartographic Knowledge between East Asia and Early Modern Europe'. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2016].
Anthony MULLAN (Library of Congress, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Washington, D.C.). ' "The Post-Road from Buenos Ayres to Potosi 1816": the close relationship of a map to travel literature and visual culture'. [2003].
Professor Karl OFFEN (Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma). 'Mapping Mosquitia: Miskitu identity and the geographical imagination in Northeastern Nicaragua', [2003] AND (University of Oklahoma), 'From Local Knowledge to British maps: Tracing the links in Caribbean Central America'. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2014].
Karen C. PINTO (Department of History, Columbia University). 'Ways of Seeing: The World in Medieval Muslim Cartographical Imagination'. [1998].
Dr Lisa POGGIALI (University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism). 'Digital Democracy and Analogue Autocracy?: The History of Mapping in Kenya'. [2016].
Dr Catherine PORTER (Queen’s University, Belfast). ‘The making of maps: new ways of assessing how early surveyors mapped Plantation Ireland’. [2019].
Amy PRIOR (doctoral student, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Geography). ‘The Cartographic Representation of Africa, 1880-1915: Print Histories of African Mapping’. [2011].
Dr Giuseppe RAGONE (Universitá degli Studi "Roma Tre", Dipartimento di Studi sul Mondo Antico, Rome, Italy). 'Critical edition of, and historical commentary on, Cristoforo Buondelmonti's "Liber insularum Archipelagi": the manuscripts preserved in London collections'. [2002].
Professor Sumathi RAMASWAMY (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania). 'Catastrophic Cartographies: Mapping the Lost Continent of Lemuria'. [1997].
Karen RANN (doctoral student, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast). ‘The Art of Contouring: Towards a Creative Historical Geography of Contour Lines in Britain and Ireland, 1778–1860’. [2021].
Professor André REYES NOVAES (Department of Geography, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). ‘Cross-Cultural Exchange in South American border Mapping: Indigenous Knowledge in Percy Harrison Fawcett’s Cartographic Encounters’. {2020].
Sean ROBERTS (Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan).'Cartography between Cultures: Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia of 1482'. [2005].
Dr James C. ROBERTSON (Department of History, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica). 'Maps, Surveyors and Surveying: Framing the Initial English Settlement in Jamaica'. [1998].
Carmem Marques RODRIGUES (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, doctoral student in the History of Science). 'To His Excellency Chevalier Pinto: Columbia Prima’s Map and the Relationship between William Faden and Luís Pinto de Sousa Coutinho'. [Supported by the Historical Geographers Research Group (HGRG)]. [2020].
Dr Stephen ROYLE (Department of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast). 'The use of maps in the early development of St Helena'. [2005].
Neil SAFIER (Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA). 'Turning Water into Lines: The Cartographic Construction of Amazonia from Fritz to Ferreira, 1707-1792'. [2001].
Professor Dr Sylvia SCHRAUT (Universität Mannheim, Historisches Institut, Germany). 'Comparing historic school atlases 1870-1960 (Germany, Austria, Great Britain and U.S.A.)'. [2004].
Dr Susan SCHULTEN (Professor of History and Department Chair, University of Denver). 'A History of North America in 100 Maps'. [Harley-Delmas Fellow, 2016].
Professor Camille SERCHUK (Southern Connecticut State University). 'Art, Cartography and Visual Culture in France 1450-1610'. [2014].
Jill SHEFRIN (Independent researcher, Toronto). 'Maps as Educational Aids in the Teaching of Geography to Children in England, 1760-1820'. [1998].
Jiaying SHEN (University of Toronto, Canada). 'Empire at Sea: The Construction of Maritime Sovereignty in Imperial Japan and Navigating Troubled Waters: Maritime Sovereignty at the Grassroots'. [2025].
Johanna SKURNIK (University of Turku, Finland). 'British Geographies of Australia 1830-1860'. [2014].
Eva STAMOULOU (University of Manchester). 'The Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean: Cartographical Insights on Identity in Venice and its Oltremare'. [2008].
Roger A. STARLING (Department of English, University of Toronto). 'Topography and Power: English Renaissance Drama and the Production of Space 1580-1640'. [1995].
Andreas STEINSIECK (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Historisches Seminar, Germany). 'Public War Maps, 1899-1902. Towards a Cultural History of War Maps', with special reference to South Africa'. [2007].
Professor Philip STERN (Duke University, North Carolina, Department of History), 'Mapping the Early Modern British Imperial Corporation'. [2012].
Professor Lindy STIEBEL (University of KwaZulu-Natal, English Literary and Cultural Studies, South Africa). 'Thomas Baines, cartographer: mapping Australia (North Australian Expedition map 1856) and Africa (South African Gold Fields Exploration Company maps 1872)'. [2004].
Benjamin L. STONE (Department of History, University of Chicago). 'Mapping, Map-Use and State Formation in later Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Century England'. [1999].
Jack SWAB (University of Kentucky). ‘Insuring the Empire: British Fire Insurance Cartography and the Mapping of Risk in the 19th and 20th Centuries’. [2022].
Professor Richard TALBERT (University of North Carolina, Department of History and Classics). 'Peutinger’s Map of the Roman World Reconsidered'. [2007].
René TEBEL (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany). 'Significance of ships on maps as a historical source'. [2001].
Professor Dan TERKLA (Illinois Wesleyan University). 'The Hereford Mappa Mundi: Placement, Reception, and Perception'. [2008].
Gion WALLMEYER (University of Göttingen). 'The function of cartography in the making of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century crusading experts'. [2017].
H-D = Harley-Delmas Fellows (2008-2011 & 2014-2017)
HGRG = Historical Geographers Research Group (suported fellowships 2019 & 2020)
| Argentina | 3 | Australia | 1 | [1 H-D] | Belgium | 1 | Brazil | 2 | [1 HGRG] | Canada | 5 | [& 2 H-D, 1 HGRG] | Finland | 1 | France | 3 | [& 2 H-D] | Germany | 7 | Greece | 1 | India [USA] | 1 | Ireland | 2 | Israel | 1 | Italy | 3 | Latvia | 1 | Netherlands | 2 | Pakistan [USA] | 1 | Portugal | 1 | [1 H-D] | South Africa | 2 | Spain [New Zealand] | 1 | U.K. | 11 | U.S.A. | 40 | [& 6 H-D] | West Indies | 1 |
ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES AND STATUS
Note. Harley-Delmas Fellows and those supported by the Historical Geographers Research Group (HGRG) are included in the totals below
| Academic Discipline | Anthropology | 2 | Architecture | 1 | Art History | 10 | Asian Studies | 1 | Classics | 1 | Democracy Studies | 1 | English | 6 | Environment | 1 | European Studies | 1 | Fine Art | 2 | Geography | 16 | Geology | 1 | Germanic & Slavic | 1 | History | 49 | History of Medicine | 1 | History of Science | 2 | Maritime History | 1 | Social Sciences | 1 |
| Status | Academic | 37 | Doctoral student | 46 | Independent researcher | 6 | Librarian | 3 | Master's student | 1 | Museum curator | 1 | Postdoctoral Fellow | 3 |
NUMBER OF APPLICANTS EACH YEAR
(Awards are taken up in the following year, and occasionally in the
year after that.
The figures below relate to the selection process each November)
| Applications | Awards | 1993 | 10 | 3 | 1994 | 16 | 2 | 1995 | 7 | 2 | 1996 | 17 | 2 | 1997 | 10 | 3 | 1998 | 6 | 2 | 1999 | 12 | 3 | 2000 | 13 | 3 | 2001 | 17 | 3 | 2002 | 12 | 3 | 2003 | 21 | 4 | 2004 | 7 | 2 | 2005 | 6 | 2 | 2006 | 7 | 4 | 2007 | 12 | 5 | 2008 | 9 | 4 | 2009 | 9 | 4 | 2010 | 10 | 7 | 2011 | 7 | 3 | 2012 | 10 | 3 | 2013 | 11 | 5 | 2014 | 7 | 4 | 2015 | 11 | 5 | 2016 | 6 | 4 | 2017 | 5 | 3 | 2018 | 12 | 3 | 2019 | 8 | 2 | 2020 | 7 | 2 | 2021 | 5 | 2 | 2022 | 9 | 3 | 2023 | 13 | 3 | 2024 | 4 | 2 |
Last updated 23 January 2025