{the expected completion date is given between square brackets}

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. [2009]. 'Cartometric analysis of the nautical charts of the 15th and 16th centuries'. Email: alvesgaspar(at)netcabo.pt

Laura Ambrose, University of Michigan (English Language and Literature). [March 2008]. 'Plotting Movement: Representations of Local Travel in Early Modern England, 1600-1660'. [Chapter 4: "Guiding Our 'Travails': Mapping Travel in Seventeenth-Century England".] Email: lauraaw(at)umich.edu

Carolyn Anderson, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Geography, and National Library of Scotland. [2009]. 'Constructing the Military Landscape: the Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland, c. 1707-1815'. Email: s0678981(at)sms.ed.ac.uk

Lauren Beck, University of Western Ontario, London (Hispanic Studies). [2008]. 'The Formation of Religious Communities in 16th Century Spain: An Analysis of Complex Carto-Rhetorical Figures' [including a discussion and catalogue of religious map signs]. Email: l.beck(at)rogers.com     Webpage

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

Philipp Billion, University of Marburg/Lahn. [2008]. 'Die Ikonographie mittelalterlicher Portolankarten' [The Iconography of Medieval Portolan Charts]. Email: philipp.billion(at)gmx.de

Stéphane Blond, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. [end 2008]. 'L'atlas des routes royales de Trudaine (XVIIIe sičcle)'. Email: stephblond(at)aol.com

Lindsay Frederick Braun, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (History), New Brunswick. [2008]. 'Surveying, Cartography, and the Creation of Spatial Order on the South African Frontier, 1860-1913'. Email: braun(at)history.rutgers.edu

Marcel van den Broecke, Universiteit Utrecht (Geosciences; URU-Explokart). [May 2007]. 'Ortelius as a historiographer: the texts of his atlas maps (1570-1641)'. Email: info(at) orteliusmaps.com     Webpage

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). [end 2008]. '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). [2008-9]. 'Frederick de Wit (1630 1706): Map maker or copyist-conveyer of maps?'. 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

Karen Culcasi, Syracuse University (Geography), New York. [April 2008]. 'Cartographic Representations of the Middle East and Egypt'. Email: klculcas(at)maxwell.syr.edu     Personal webpage

Surekha Davies, University of London, School of Advanced Study, Warburg Institute. [2008]. 'Representations of Amerindians on European Maps and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge, c. 1506-1624'. Email: surekha.davies(at)sas.ac.uk     Personal webpage

Ségolčne Débarre, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne (Geography). [2009]. 'Production cartographique des géographes européens dans l'Empire Ottoman au XIXe sičcle'. Email: segolene_debarre(at)hotmail.com

Lina Maria Del Castillo, University of Miami (History), Coral Gables. [May 2007]. Provisional title: 'The Science of Nation Building: Agustín Codazzi's Scientific Expeditions and the Formation of the Nueva Granadan State, 1850-1902'. Email: linadel75(at)hotmail.com

J. Keith Doherty, Boston University (Art History). [January 2008]. 'Spatial and Narrative Structure in Roman Landscape Painting' [such paintings being interpreted as maps]. Email: jdoherty(at)bu.edu

Monica M. Drake, University of Texas at Arlington (History). [May 2008]. Provisional title: 'The Dieppe School of Chartmakers, 1535-1590'. Email: infinitymax(at)sbcglobal.net

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

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)'. Email: andre.ferrand(at)oninetspeed.pt

Daniela Marzola Fialho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Programa de Pós-graduaçăo em Historia (History), Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil. [2009]. ‘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

Christian Fieseler, Universität Augsburg (Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte), [Winter 2008]. Provisional title : 'Kartographie, Raumdarstellung und Raumwahrnehmung im 18. Jahrhundert' [Cartography and the perception, depiction and representation of space in the 18th century]. Email: christian.fieseler(at)uni-bielefeld.de     Personal webpage

Gueničvre Fournier Antonini, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseilles. [2008]. [Views and maps of Marseilles, Genoa and Barcelona (15th-19th centuries)]. Email: guenievre.fournier(at)free.fr

Jorge Guzman Gutierrez, University of Cambridge (Geography), Scott Polar Research Institute. [2009]. 'Mapping the Southern Polar Region: a geographical history of Antarctica from 1501 to 1993'. Email: jgg29(at)cam.ac.uk

Gavin Hollis, University of Michigan (English Language and Literature). [Summer 2008]. 'The Absence of America on the Early Modern Stage' [how the space of America and its inhabitants was constructed in the English colonial imaginary through literary, visual, and cartographic representations, and how these constructions impacted the stage plays of the Shakespearean era]. Email: ghollis(at)umich.edu

Charles Hope, University of Texas at Arlington. [??]. 'Cibola and Quivira on Maps'

Krisztina Irás, Eötvös Loránd University (Cartography and Geoinformatics), Budapest. [2008]. 'Cartographic analysis of portolan charts with use of digital methods'. Email: iras(at)map.elte.hu

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

Tarek Kahlaoui, University of Pennsylvania (History of Art). [2008]. 'The Depiction of the Mediterranean in Late Islamic Cartography: from the 13th to the 16th centuries'. Email: tkahlaou(at)sas.upenn.edu.     Personal webpage

Imants Lavinš {with additional accents}, University of Latvia (History and Philosophy), Riga. [2008]. '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

Carla Lois, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Instituto de Geografía). [2008] 'America’s Impact on the Maps of the World: Colors, Techniques and the Production of Geographical Knowledge in the Art of the Western European Cartography (1490-1600)'. Email: carlalois(at)fibertel.com.ar

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

Alistair S. Maeer, University of Texas-Arlington (History - Transatlantic History program). [May 2006]. 'Cartography of Commerce: England's 17th century overseas expansion' [or] 'Tools of the Trade: Cartography and commerce in England's 17th century overseas expansion'. Email: asm5365(at)exchange.uta.edu

John Montague, Trinity College Dublin (History of Art). [2008]. 'John Rocque's "Exact Survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin", 1756, as evidence for the architecture of Dublin in the mid-18th century'. Email: johnmontague(at)eircom.net     Personal webpage

Luís Moreira, University of Minho (Human Geography). [2010]. Provisional title: [Cartography, Geography and Power: the cartographical images of Portugal in the 18th Century]. Email: lmmgeo(at)gmail.com

Zsombor Nemerkényi, Eötvös Loránd University (Cartography and Geoinformatics), Budapest, Hungary. [January 2007]. [The evaluation of the works of László Magyar based on cartographic, geographic analyses]. Email: zsombor(at)map.elte.hu

Jean-François Palomino, Université Paris-IV (Histoire moderne et contemporaine). [2006?]. 'Cartographier l'espace colonial français en Amérique du Nord'. Email: jeanfrancois.palomino(at)bnquebec.ca

Cóilín Parsons, Columbia University, New York (English and Comparative Literature). [May 2008]. 'Literary Maps: The Ordnance Survey and Anglo-Irish Writing'. Email: csp22(at)columbia.edu

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

Martin Rickenbacher, University of Basle (History and Philosophy). [2008]. [The survey of the Basle landscape, 16th to 19th century]. Email: martin.rickenbacher(at)bluewin.ch

Jessica C. Robey, University of California, Santa Barbara (History of Art & Architecture). [March 2006]. 'From the City Witnessed to the Community Dreamed: The Civitates Orbis Terrarum and the Circle of Abraham Ortelius and Joris Hoefnagel'. Email: jessicarobey(at)gmail.com

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

Avan Stallard, University of Queensland (History). [2009]. 'The Great South Land and the Inland Sea: A Narrative of Imaginative Geographies'. Email: avanstallard(at)gmail.com

Eva Stamoulou, University of Manchester (Art History and Visual Studies). [September 2009]. 'The Venetian Oltremare: Identity and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean.' Email: eva.stamoulou(at)postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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. [2008]. 'Het gebruik van prekadastrale kaartboeken van Nederlands grondgebied' [The use of estate atlases of Dutch territory]. Email: m.storms(at)geo.uu.nl

Christophe Thouny, McGill University, Montreal (East Asian Studies) and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Sociology). [2008]. Provisional title: 'Cartographic practices in Meiji Tokyo' [early maps are considered as part of what I consider a modern, hybrid, multiple world of cartographic practices, mixing pre-modern and modern-western ones]. Email: cthouny(at)yahoo.ca

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

Roberta (Bobbie) Williams, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Geography). [December 2008]. ‘Space and Place: The Nineteenth-Century American Bird's Eye Views’. Email: r_willi3(at)spartan.uncg.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). [June 2008]. 'Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth Century American Art of the Frontier'. Email: maryzundo(at)aol.com

Contact has been lost with these candidates - the outcome is not known
[those from the previous year who could not be contacted have a ? after the year]

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'.

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']. Email: v.mandache(at)lse.ac.uk [or] valentman(at)hotmail.com

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