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.

Isabelle Avila, Université de Paris XIII. [March 2012]. 'Cartographie et impérialisme en Grande-Bretagne et en France, 1870-1914'. Email: isabelleavila(at)hotmail.com

Martha G. Bell, Pennsylvania State University (Geography). [December 2012]. 'Andean gristmills: technology, environment, and society in colonial Peru (1532-1821)'. [Discussing attempts to map the irrigation canals.]

Benjamin P. Breen, University of Texas at Austin (History). [2013]. 'Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Empire and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1740'. Email: breen85(at) gmail.com     Personal webpage {added February 2011}

Pamela Merrill Brekka, University of Florida (School of Art & Art History). [2012]. ‘The Antwerp Polyglot Bible’s ‘New World Indian-Jew’ Map as a Reflection of Sixteenth-Century Cultural Crosscurrents’ . Email: pbrekka(at)ufl.edu {added April 2010}

Vanessa Jane Collingridge, University of Glasgow (Geography and Earth Sciences). [2014]. 'Mapping Myths: the fantastic history of the Great Southern Continent'. Email: ness(at)monstermedia.tv

Christina Connett, University of Valencia, Spain. [2012]. 'Mapping as a strategy of power, authority and narrative in the frontispieces of Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano, Antonio Herrera y Tordesillas, 1601.' Email: cconnett(at) risd.edu   {added October 2011}

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}

Ricardo A. Fagoaga-Hernández, University of California, San Diego (History). [2012] ' "En medio de una y otra América": Regions, Markets and Indigenous Economic Participation in Chiapas and Guatemala, 1750-1850'. Email: rfagoaga(at)ucsd.edu {added November 2010}

David T. Flaherty, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (History). [2013]. 'British Visions of Empire and the Aggressive Imperial Project for the North American Frontier, 1713-1783'. [Including consideration of the cartography produced for and by British officials.] Email: david.flaherty(at)virginia.edu {added February 2011, revised January 2012}

Susan Ford, Australian National University (Classics). [July 2012]. 'The three modes by which commentators reach an understanding of spatial description in Homer and Herodotus, characterised as: a) autopsy of place; b) cartographic re-imagining; and c) via linguistic and cognitive categorisation'. Email: susan.ford(at)anu.edu.au {added January 2010 }

Stefan Fuchs, Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [2013]. 'Herrschaftswissen und Raumerfassung um 1500. Karten und Landesaufnahmen im Dienste des Nürnberger Stadtstaates' [Knowledge of space as a means of power around 1500. Maps and written land surveys in the service of the Nuremberg city state]. Email: s.fuchs(at)access.uzh.ch     Personal webpage {added January 2012}

Bernd Giesen, Universität Bielefeld, Abteilung Geschichte, Schule für Historische Forschung/Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [end 2012]. 'Protonationale Topographien. Die Landkarten und Landesbeschreibungen in der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft 1480-1580'. Email: berndgiesen(at)gmx.de

Spyridon Gkounis, Ionian University (History). [2012]. [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. [2012]. 'Historical Geography of the Southern Polar Region: Imaging, Inducing, Mapping and Surveying Antarctica and the Southern Ocean from late Middle Ages to the First Antarctic Sealing Period (circa 1825)'. Email: jgg29(at)cam.ac.uk

Galia Halpern, New York University (Fine Arts). [May 2013]. 'Open Geography and the Illuminated Mandeville's Travels'. Email: g.halpern(a)nyu.edu {added January 2011}

Alexander Hidalgo, University of Arizona, Tucson (History). [December 2012]. 'The Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca' [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

Imants Ļaviņš, University of Latvia (History and Philosophy), Riga. [September 2012]. '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

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 development and publishing history of school atlases and British geography, c.1880-c.1930'. Email: J. McDougall-2(at)sms.ed.ac.uk

Jamie McGowan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Geography). [spring 2012]. Provisional title: 'Conventional Signs, Imperial Designs: The Surveying and Mapping of Colonial Ghana, 1874-1963'. Email: jmcgowan(at)uiuc.edu

Erin Maglaque, University of Oxford - University College (History). [2014]. 'The Spaces and Places of the Eastern Mediterranean through Travellers' Eyes, 1300-1500.' Email: enm416(at)gmail.com.   {added October 2011}

Mira Miletić-Drder, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Philosophy. [February 2012]. '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). [July 2012]. '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

Nóirín B. Ní Bheaglaoi, University College Cork, Ireland (History). [March 2012]. 'Editio Anceps: The Manuscript Tradition of Giraldus Cambrensis' Topographia Hibernica’. [Two chapters will focus on the Topographia's maps]. Email: 104322941(at) umail.ucc.ie {added November 2010}

Jean-François Palomino, Université de Montréal (History). [2015]. ‘L'État et l'espace colonial: savoirs géographiques en Nouvelle-France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles’. Email: jeanfrancois.palomino(at)banq.qc.ca   {added January 2012}

Maria Pazarli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Surveying Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Surveying. [end 2012]. '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}

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). [2012]. [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)gemail.com

Kathleen Pullum, Birkbeck, University of London. [2011]. 'Charting the Trans-frontier: Survey and Boundary-making on the North-west frontier of India in the late-19th century'. Email: kpullum(at) gmail.com {added February 2010}

Ralph Ruch, Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [spring 2012]. 'Herrschaftliche Kartierung als Instrument lokaler Verwaltung'. Email: Ralph.Ruch(at)gmx.ch

Bettina Schöller, Universität Zürich, Historisches Seminar. [spring 2012]. 'Wissen speichern, Wissen ordnen, Wissen übertragen. Die Londoner Psalterkarte und die Descriptio Mappe Mundi'. 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}

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

L. Elizabeth Upper, King's College, University of Cambridge (History of Art). [2012]. 'Printing Colour in the Age of Dürer: German ‘Chiaroscuro’ Woodcuts, 1485-1572' [including consideration of the first maps printed in colour]. Email: leu21(at)cam.ac.uk     Personal webpage {added 12 May 2011}

Madalina-Valeria Veres, University of Pittsburgh (History). [2014]. 'Tracing imperial contours: cartography and reforms in the eighteenth century Habsburg Monarchy'. Email: mvv3(at)pitt.edu     Personal webpage   {added 29 September 2011}

Soetkin Vervust, Ghent University (Geography). [2015]. 'A detailed study of the Ferraris map in the framework of new techniques'. Email: Soetkin.Vervust(at)UGent.be   {added 4 October 2011}

Mary Peterson Zundo, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (Art History). [2012]. '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'

Robert Engelbert, University of Ottawa. [??]. 'Beyond Borders: Mental Mapping and the French River World in North America, 1763-1805'

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'].

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].

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'.

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]).

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

[Please notify Tony Campbell [info(at)tonycampbell.info] when an award is made, so that the details can be moved to the doctorates awarded page. NB. In the email addresses, replace (at) with @]

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