For UK doctorates, see the Institute of Historical Research's Theses Completed and in Progress (up to 2001) and Index to Theses (from 1970 onwards). Information on doctorates beyond North America and the UK is hard to find.

The contact and other details for many of those listed can be found in the published Who's Who in the History of Cartography and the Updates page.

* James R. Akerman, Pennsylvania State University, 1996. 'On the shoulders of Titan: viewing the world of the past in atlas structure'.

Vladimir Alexandrov, Stavropol State University, Geography Department, March 2003. 'Istoriko-kartograficheskiy analiz izmeneniya beregov Kaspiyskogo morya s ispol'zovaniem razlichnykh starykh kart' [Historical cartographical analysis of changes to the Caspian Sea's coasts {using a wide range of early maps}]. The higher degree: Doctor of Science Dissertation (Geography).

Robert Raymond Ansiaux, University of Texas at Arlington (History), 2006. ‘Early Belgian Colonial Efforts: The Long and Fearful Shadow of Leopold I’ [maps feature strongly].

Aoyama Hiroo, Kyoto University, March 2006. ‘Zen-kindai-tizu no kuukan kousei to chiri-teki chisiki’ [Spatial construction and geographical knowledge of pre-modern maps]. For the higher Doctorate of Literature.

Eric H. Ash, Princeton University, 2000. '"The skylfullest men": Patronage, authority, and the negotiation of expertise in Elizabethan England' [including sections on the reconstruction of Dover Harbour and mathematical methods of navigation].

* Florine Asselbergs, University of Leiden, 2004. 'Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, a Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala'.

Jerome Randall Barnes, University of Texas at Arlington (History), 2007. 'Giovanni Battista Ramusio and the History of Discoveries: An Analysis of Ramusio's Commentary, Cartography, and Imagery in Delle Navigationi et Viaggi'. AAT 3273963.

Ian J. Barrow, University of Chicago, Department of History, June 1998. `Charted histories in Colonial India, 1760-1905'.

Zsombor Bartos-Elekes, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Cartography), April 2006. [The Usage of Map Lettering (Transylvania, 1804-2004)].

Sarah Bassnett, Binghamton University, New York, History and Theory of Art, 2004. 'Visible Cities: Photography, Visual Discourse and City Planning in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto and Montreal'.

Dieter Beineke, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Bauingenieur- und Vermessungswesen, October 2000. 'Verfahren zur Genauigkeitsanalyse für Altkarten' (published in Schriftenreihe Studiengang Geodäsie und Geoinformation der Universität der Bundeswehr München, Heft 71, ISSN 0173-1009).

Adrianne N. Bender, New York University, 2001. 'Mapping Scotland's identities: Representation of national landscapes in the novels of Scott, Stevenson, Oliphant and Munro'.

Jean-Marc Besse, History of Science, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, May 1999. 'Les grandeurs de la Terre. Essai sur les transformations du savoir géographique au seizième siècle'.

William R. Bignell, University of Exeter, Department of Geography, January 2001. 'The cartographic representation of landscape features by the Ordnance Survey: a nineteenth century perspective' [discussing the depiction of windmills on OS maps].

Daniel Jay Birkholz, University of Minnesota, 1999. 'The king's two maps: cartography and culture in thirteenth-century England'.

Erin Blake, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History, June 2000. 'Zograscopes, perspective prints, and the mapping of polite space in mid-eighteenth century England'.

Lisa Blansett, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of English Literature, Summer 1995. `Cartographies: Cultural Space and Cartographic Signs in British Fiction, 1700-1814'.

Gordon Phillip Bleach, State University of New York at Binghamton, December, 2000. 'Visions of access: Africa bound and staged, 1880-1940'.

Paul D. Boyd, Rutgers University, Department of Geography, December 2005. 'Settlers Along the Shores: Lenape Spatial Patterns in Coastal Monmouth County, 1600-1750' [including a chapter on early maps].

Elio Christoph Brancaforte, Harvard University, 2001. 'Reading word and image: Representations of Safavid Persia in the maps and frontispieces of Adam Olearius (ca. 1650)'.

Rui Miguel Carvalhinho Branco, European University Institute (History and Civilization), December 2005. 'The Cornerstones of Modern Government: Maps, Weights and Measures and Census in Liberal Portugal (19th Century)'.

Kenneth George Brealey, University of British Columbia, 2003. 'First (national) space: (Ab)original (re)mappings of British Columbia'. UMI No. AAT NQ79201.

Paul P.W.J. van den Brink, the Royal Library, the Hague and the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, May 1998. ` "In een Opslag van het Oog' ": De Hollandse rivierkartografie en waterstaatazorg in opkomst, 1725-1754'. [Published in Dutch - see Imago Mundi `Bibliography' vol.51].

Raymond Michael Brod, University of Illinois at Chicago, January 2001. 'Maps as weapons in the conquest of Old American Northwest, 1608 to 1829'.

Piet Broeders, Universiteit Utrecht (Geosciences; URU-Explokart), November 2006. ‘Gijsbert Franco, Baron von Derfelden van Hinderstein (1783-1857): leven en werk van "eene ware specialiteit" in kaart gebracht’ [subtitle: ‘Life and work of a real expert mapped out’]. Due to be published in February 2007, with an English summary and CD-ROM containing appendixes, by HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, as Vol. 5 of the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies, ISBN-10: 90 6194 409 0 / ISBN-13: 978 90 6194 409 6.

Vladimir Erikovich Bulatov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Department of the History of Earth Sciences, April 2002. 'Kartografirovanie zarubezhnykh akvatoriy Admiralteyskoy kollegiey' [Charting foreign seas by the [Russian] Admiralty].

Eric J. Bulson, Columbia University, 2004. ‘Novel orientations: Maps, narrative, and modernity, 1850-2000 (Herman Melville, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Karl Baedeker, Ireland)’. UMI No. AAT 3128926 (abstract only).

Graham Burnett, University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 1997. `El Dorado on Paper: Traverse Surveys and the Geographical Construction of British Guiana, 1803-1844'.

Mark Kevin Burns, Harvard University, 2003. 'Rhetoric, experience, and identity in frontier writing and mapping of the Americas'. UMI No. AAT 3076873.

Diane S. Butler, Cornell University, Department of the History of Art, Ithaca, New York, August 2004. 'Of Bodies and Borders: Images of Africans on Early Modern Maps'.

Edward Andrew Byerly, Arizona State University, 1997. 'Behind the illumination of Terra Incognita: culture, power and resources in the cartographic history of California, 1541-1903'.

Giselle Margaret Byrnes, University of Auckland, Department of History, 1995. `Inventing New Zealand: surveying, science, and the constraints of cultural space, 1840s-1890s'.

Kathryn B. Campbell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002. 'More than a metaphor: the challenge of civic mapping'. UMI No. AAT 3060523.

Ryan J. Carey, University of Texas at Austin, Department of History, June 2003. 'Building a better Oregon: geographic information and the production of space, 1846-1906'.

Julia S. Carlson, University of Michigan, 2006. ‘Romantic Emphasis: Wordsworth’s Poetry and the Marks of Culture, 1750–1850’ [discussing British topographic mapping and map representation in Britain and the Alps].

Patrick E. Carroll, University of California, San Diego, 1999. 'Engineering Ireland: the material constitution of the technoscientific state' [discusses cartographic surveys].

Giancarlo L. Casale, Harvard University, 2004. ‘The Ottoman Age of Exploration: Spices, maps and conquest in the sixteenth-century Indian Ocean’. UMI No. AAT 3131801.

Angelo Cattaneo, European University Institute (History and Civilization), September 2005. 'La mappamundi di Fra Mauro camaldolese. Venezia, 1450'.

Cynthia Ann Powell Chambers, University of Texas at Arlington (History), 2006. ‘Cannibalism in Cultural Context: Cartographic Imagery and Iconography of the New World Indigenous Peoples during the Age of Discovery’.

Enrico Chapel, Université de Paris VIII, Aménagement et Urbanisme, May 2000. 'Cartes et Figures de l'Urbanisme scientifique en France (1910-1943).

Olivier Chapuis, Sorbonne, Paris, 8 November 1997. `Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (1766-1854) et la naissance de l`hydrographie moderne (1750-1850)'.

Alex Checkovich, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. ‘Mapping the American way: Geographical knowledge and the development of the United States, 1890-1950’. UMI No. AAT 3137991.

Leonid Sergeevich Chekin, Department of the History of Geography and Geology of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of the History of Science and Technology, May 2002. 'Kartografiya Khristianskogo Srednevekov'ya' [Cartography of the Christian Middle Ages].

Lucy Payne Chester, Yale University, Department of History, December 2002. 'Drawing the Indo-Pakistani boundary during the 1947 partition of South Asia'.

* Paola Clerici Maestosi, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Rappresentazione e Rilievo, 1997. 'I cartografi tra teoria e pratica dello stato rinascimentale'.

John Cloud, University of California-Santa Barbara, June 2000. 'Hidden in plain sight: CORONA and the clandestine geography of the Cold War'.

Daniel K. Connolly, University of Chicago, Department of Art History, 1998. `Imagined pilgrimage in Gothic art: maps, manuscripts and labyrinths'.

Raymond Craib, Yale University, Department of History, December 2001. 'State fixations and fugitive landscapes: surveying, mapping and the spatial creation of modern Mexico, 1850-1930'.

Nessa Cronin, National University of Ireland, Centre for Irish Studies, Galway, November 2007. 'The Eye of History: Spatiality and Colonial Cartography in Ireland'.

Michele Jane Curran, Arizona State University, 2005. 'United States Board of Geographic Names: The Impact of Controversy, 1890-Present'.

Franz Peter Dammerer, Institut für Geschichte Universität Wien, 2007. 'Vinzenz von Haardt (1843-1914): Ein Kartograph der Franzisko- Josephinischen Zeit, der "die vollendete Technik der Kartographie mit pädagogischem Geschicke vereint"' [Vinzenz von Haardt (1843-1914): A cartographer from the time of Franz Joseph I, who "combines the perfect technology of cartography with pedagogical skill"].

Lisa Davis Allen, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of History, May 2001. 'The color of nationalism: the use of formal elements as a vehicle for projecting national identities in early modern European maps and paintings'.

Enali Maria De Biaggi, Université de Paris III, December 2000. 'La cartographie et les représentations du territoire au Brésil'.

Veronica Della Dora, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, September 2005. 'Geographies of the Holy Mountain: Post-Byzantine and Western Representations of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos' [including maps and coastal profiles].

Debra Lynn Diamond, Columbia University, 2000. 'The politics and aesthetics of citation: Nath painting in Jodhpur, 1803-1843' [including a discussion of pilgrimage maps].

Lucy E. G. Donkin, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, February 2005. ' "Ornata Decenter". Figurative Ecclesiastical Floor Mosaics in Northern Italy, 1030-1213' [including a discussion of geographical thought and imagery, and mappaemundi].

* Andréa Carla Doré , Universidade Federal Fluminense, Department of History (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), February 2002. 'Império sitiado: as fortalezas portuguesas nas Índias (1498-1622)' [A beseiged empire: the Portuguese fortresses in India (1498-1622)]. [Including a discussion of 16th century Portuguese cartography.]

Eduardo de Jesus Douglas, University of Texas at Austin, 2000. 'In the palace of Nezahualcoyotl: History and painting in early colonial Tetzcoco' [discussing the 16th century Quinatzin and Tlohtzin maps and the Codex Xolotl].

Yongtao Du, University of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign (History), 2006. 'Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China' [the translocal merchants in early modern China published their own geographical works].

Graham David Dudley, University of Waterloo (Canada), 1998. 'Political aspects of geographical information technologies with examples from Imperial and post-Independence India'.

Kathryn A. Ebel, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geograpahy, August 2002. 'City views, imperial visions: cartography and the visual culture of urban space in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1603'.

Marco van Egmond, Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geowetenschappen, May 2005. 'Covens & Mortier: Productie, organisatie en ontwikkeling van een commercieel-kartografisch uitgevershuis in Amsterdam (1685-1866)' [Covens & Mortier: Production, organization, and development of a commercial-cartographic enterprise in Amsterdam (1685-1866)].

Felicia M. Else, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Art History and Archaeology, May 2003. 'Water and Stone: Ammannati's Neptune Fountain as Public Ornament' [Chapter 4, 'On aqueducts' is concerned with contemporary city plans]. UMI No. AAT 3095512.

Rhiannon Menai Evans, University of Southern California, 1999. 'Forma Orbis: geography, ethnography and shaping the Roman Empire'.

* Cyril Everard, University of London, 2004. ‘The Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands: ‘benchmark’, hydrographic, and geodetic surveys 1689-1980’ [who, sadly, died in 2006].

* Mário Gonçalves Fernandes, Universidade do Porto (Letras), Oporto. 2002. 'Urbanismo e morfologia urbana no Norte de Portugal, 1852-1926' [including a chapter on Portuguese urban cartographic documents from the 16th century].

Jean-Marie Feurtet, Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris, 2005. ‘Le Bureau des longitudes (1795-1854): De Lalande à Le Verrier’. Abstract.

Manonmani Filliozat, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), November 2002. 'L'océan Oriental: connaissances hydrographiques françaises aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles'.

Gustav Forstner, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Bauingenieur- und Vermessungswesen, March 2005. 'Längenfehler und Ausgangsmeridiane in alten Landkarten und Positionstabellen'.

Pierre Fournier, École pratique des hautes études IVe section, Paris, December 2003. 'Les cartes d’État-major en Europe centrale: cartographie, frontières et fortifications en Europe centrale, autour de la période 1750-1914'.

* Stanislav Franges, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy, 1998. [Map Graphics in Digital Mapping]. (Dealing with both old and new maps - in Croatian with English summary).

Boris Freedman, Russian Ministry of Defence, Chief Administration of Navigation and Oceanography, March 2003. 'Istoriya morskogo kartograficheskogo proizvodstva v Rossii (konets XIX - nachalo XX vv.)' [A history of chartmaking by the Russia Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (in its technological aspects)]. Candidate of Science (Technology), defended in the History of Science and Technology's Scientific Council on the History of Technology.

Christian Germanaz, Université de Paris I, December 2005. 'Du pont des navires au bord des cratères : regards croisés sur le piton de la Fournaise (1653-1964). Itinéraires iconographiques et essai d’iconologie du volcan actif de la Réunion' [including a significant cartographic element].

Valeriy Glushkov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the History of Science and Technology, September 2003. 'Proiskhozhdeniye i razvitie voennoy kartografii v Rosii (XVIII - nachalo XX stoletiya)' [Origin and development of military cartography in Russia (18th to early 20th century)]. The higher degree: Doctor of Science Dissertation (Geography).

Prasad Gogate, University of Mumbai, Department of Geography, December 1998. `Indigenous maps of Western India - a study in historical cartography'.

Maria do Carmo Andrade Gomes, Universidade de Minas Gerais (History), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 2005. ‘Mapas e Mapeamentos: dimensões históricas; políticas cartográficas em Minas Gerais, Brasil (1850-1930’ [Maps and mappings: historical dimensions; cartographic policies in Minas Gerais, Brazil (1850-1930)].

Svetlana Gorshenina-Rapin, Université de Lausanne and Université Paris I-Sorbonne, March 2007. 'De la Tartarie à l’Asie centrale: le coeur d’un continent dans l’histoire des idées entre la cartographie et la géopolitique'.

Erlend de Groot, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, March 2001. 'De Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem: De verzamelde wereld van een 17de-eeuwse liefhebber' ['t Goy-Houten: HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2001]. An English language edition is in preparation.

Brice Gruet, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (Laboratoire Géographie et Cultures) - though actually working at the CNRS and Institut de France, December 2003. 'La rue à Rome, miroir de la ville: entre l'émotion et la norme'.

Nicolas Guilhot, Université de Lyon II, November 2005. 'Histoire d’une parenthèse cartographique. Les Alpes du Nord dans la cartographie topographique française aux 19e et 20e siècles'.

Lucile Haguet, Université de Paris IV Sorbonne (Egyptology), December 2007. 'Aegyptus, l'Egypte de l'Occident: concept et représentation de l'Egypte dans la cartographie occidentale du XVe et du XVIIIe siècle'.

Bruce Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006. 'Mapping the River in Black and White: Trajectories of Race in the Niger Bend, Northern Mali'.

* William Keith Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995. 'From chronicle to chorography: truth, narrative, and the antiquarian enterprise in Renaissance England (William Lambarde, William Camden, John Stow, Michael Drayton, Christopher Saxton)'.

Jason Harris, Trinity College, Dublin, 2004. 'Abraham Ortelius and collaborative humanism: virtuous pursuits in war and peace'.

Paulette Hasier, University of Texas at Arlington (History), 2004. ‘French Mapping of Illinois County, 1650-1750: A Cartobibliography’. Abstract.

Henk A.M. van der Heijden, Leuven University, 2 December 1996. `Oude kaarten der Nederlanden 1548-1794. Historische beschouwing, kaartbeschrijving, commentaar'.

Markus Heinz, University of Vienna, Department of History, February 2003. 'Modell eines Werkskataloges des kartographischen Verlages Homann, Homanns Erben und Fembo in Nürnberg (1702-1848)'.

Bernard W. Heise, Cornell University, 1998. `Visions of the world: geography and maps during the Baroque age, 1550-1750'.

Alfred Hiatt, University of Cambridge, 1999. 'The use and reception of forged documents in fifteenth-century England'. [Including a chapter on the forgeries of John Hardyng's Chronicle and its map].

Elisabeth Danielle Hodges, Harvard University, Romance Languages & Literatures, May 2002. 'City views: writing and the topography of Frenchness in the Renaissance'. UMI No. AAT 3051186.

Donald Hodson, University of Exeter, Department of Geography and Archaeology, November 2000. 'The early printed road books and itineraries of England and Wales'.

Yolande Hodson, Birkbeck College, University of London, Faculty of Science, 1995. `The Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One-Inch Map 1919-1942: a Cartographic Anatomy'.

Margriet Hoogvliet, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), Faculty of Arts, November 1999. 'Mappae mundi: pictura et scriptura. Textes, images et hermeneutique des mappemondes du Moyen Age long (XIIIe-XVIe siècles). Publication forthcoming from Peter Lang, Hamburg.

Donald J. Hopkins, University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2003. 'City/stage/globe: A genealogy of space in Shakespeare's London'. UMI No. AAT 3091215.

Thomas Horst, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, October 2007. 'Die Entwicklung der Manuskriptkarten Altbaierns: Eine kartographiehistorische Studie zum Augenscheinplan (Tyberiade) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kultur- und Klimageschichte' [The development of manuscript maps from Bavaria: litigation maps (tyberiade) as sources for the history of culture and climatology.]

Captain Paul Hughes, Liverpool John Moores University, May 2005. 'A study in the development of primitive and modern tide tables'.

Marco C. Iuliano, University of Naples Federico II and Université de Provence Aix- Marseille I, December 2004. 'Topographies and urban structure: Constantinople in the XVIth century'.

Anna-Telse Jagdmann, Freie Universitat Berlin, 2007. 'Del poder y la geografía. La cartografía como fuente de legitimación en Colombia'. Dissertation text

Luc Janssens, KU Leuven [Catholic University, Louvain], October 2006. 'Kaarten op bestelling. De beroepsorganisatie der land- en edificiemeters in het hertogdom Brabant en de Landen van Overmaas, 1680-1795' [Maps on command. The professional group of land surveyors in the Duchy of Brabant and in the Overmaas region, 1680-1795].

Jenny Jordan, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. ‘Imagined Lepanto: Turks, mapbooks, intrigue, and spectacular in the sixteenth century construction of 1571’. UMI No. AAT 3135517.

Philip Gerald Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania, 1999. 'Multiple geographies: the Greek view of Asia in the Archaic Period'.

Robert W. Karrow, Loyola University of Chicago, Department of History, 1999. `Intellectual foundations of the cartographic revolution'.

Nanka Karstkarel, University of Groningen, Arctic Centre, June 2005. 'Changes in shelf ice extent in West Antarctica between 1840 and 1960: analysing historical maps in a Geographical Information System'. Published by Rijksuniversiteit Groningen as Circumpolar Studies (ISSN 1574-0374), Vol. 3. ISBN 90-77922-04-0.

James William Kelly, University of Oxford, English Faculty, May 2002. 'Daniel Defoe's voyage narratives' [including discussion of maps and geographical speculation 1719-1725].

Robin E. Kelsey, Harvard University, 2000. 'Photography in the field: Timothy O'Sullivan and the Wheeler Survey, 1871-1874'.

Michael Anthony Kimaid, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Department of History, 2003. ‘"West of the Line Extended": Cartography and Conflict in Post-Revolutionary North America’.

Rebecca Brookfield Kinraide, University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science, 2006. ‘The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and the Democratization of Learning in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain’. UMI No. AAT 3222947.

Christi M. Klinkert, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, December 2005. 'Nassau in het nieuws. Nieuwsprenten van Maurits van Nassaus militaire ondernemingen uit de periode 1590-1600' [Nassau in the news: news prints of the military expeditions of Maurits of Nassau, 1590-1600].

* Günter Klüser, University of Bonn, 1998. `Zum Quellenwert von handgezeichneten Altkarten mongolischer Siedlungsgebiete des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, insbesondere im Hinblick auf deren historisch-geographische Bearbeitung´. Published as: Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft vol. 23 (Hamburg, 1999).

Pellervo Kokkonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Geography, May 1997. `Practice of marine cartography and the Russian representation of the Baltic Sea in the eighteenth century'. [Published in Fennia 175 (1997):1, 1-96].

Maja Kominko, Exeter College, Oxford (School of Archaeology), November 2006. 'Sources of the miniatures in the Byzantine Manuscripts of the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes' [discussing maps and the other illustrations]. [See summary in Imago Mundi 58:1 (2006) pp.112-3.]

* Andrzej Konias, Wroclaw University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, 2000. [Topographic cartography of Cieszyn Silesia and Austrian partition from the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century]. Published by the Silesian University Press, Katowice, 2000 (Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, no.1866)

Katariina Kosonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Geography, September 2000. 'Kartta ja kansakunta: suomalainen lehdistökartografia sortovuosien protesteista Suur-Suomen kuviin 1899-1942' [The map and the nation: Finnish press cartography from the protests of oppression years to the images of Greater Finland 1899-1942]. Published in Finnish, with a short English abstract.

* Kazimierz Kozica, University of Wroclaw (Poland), Institute of Geography, Department of Cartography, September 1998. 'Wystepowanie stawów milickich i zmiany ich linii brzegowej na dawnych i wspólczesnych mapach wielkoskalowych' [The representation of the Milicz fish ponds and changes in their shorelines based on old and present-day large-scale maps.]

Bettina Krenn, Universität Wien, May 2003. 'Verkehrsgeschichte im Kartenbild: Verkehr und Kartographie in Österreich von der Römerzeit bis zum Beginn des Eisenbahnzeitalters' [History of traffic in maps: traffic and cartography in Austria from Roman times up to the beginning of the railway era].

K. Maria D. Lane, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography, May 2006. 'Imaginative Geographies of Mars: The Science and Significance of the Red Planet, 1877-1910'.

Lada Lekay, Institute of the History of Science and Technology's Scientific Council on the History of Geography and Geology, March 2005. 'Istoriya geogficheskogo izucheniya i kartografirovaniya Kamchatki (vo vtoroy polovine XIX - nachale XX stoletiya)' [A history of the geographical exploration and mapping of Kamchatka (from the second half of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century)]. Candidate of Science Degree.

Hélène Lhoumeau, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2000. 'Les expéditions françaises en Floride (1562-1568)'. See, for long summary.

David C. Lipscomb, Columbia University, 1998. 'Geographies of progress: an atlas of the historical novel in English, 1790-1830'.

Fabien Locher, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S), September 2004. 'Le Nombre et le Temps. La météorologie en France (1830-1880)' [including a chapter on 'La mise en cartes'].

Thomas G. Lolis, University of Miami, 2007. 'The Cartography of Interiority: Magic, Mapmaking and the Search for Eden in the Renaissance'.

Natalia Lozovsky, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of History, 1997. ` "The Earth is our Book": geographical knowledge in the Latin West, A.D. 400-1000'.

Stephen J.L. McKenzie, Adelaide University, Department of English, December 2000. 'Conquest landmarks and the medieval world image: a study in cartography, literature and mythology'.

Anne Margaret MacLeod, University of Glasgow (History - Scottish Area), 2006. ‘The Idea of Antiquity in Visual Images of the Highlands and Islands, c.1700-1880’.

* Ian Macmillan Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (History), 2003. 'Robert Marshall: The Red and Green "Map Maker of Utopia"'.

Jessica Maier, Columbia University, New York City, Art History and Archeology, February 2006. ' "Imago Romae": Renaissance Visions of the Eternal City.' [See summary in Imago Mundi 58:1 (2006) p.113.]

Annaleigh Margey, National University of Ireland, Galway, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, Departments of History and Geography, June 2004. 'Mapping during the Irish Plantations, c.1580-1636'.

Luciana de Lima Martins, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Geography, October 1998. `Paisagens brasileiras, olhos britâ nicos: o Rio de Janeiro dos viajantes, 1800-1850'.

Antje Matthews, University of Leicester, Department of History of Art and Film, 2005. 'John Russell (1745-1806) and the Impact of Evangelicalism and Natural Theology on Artistic Practice' [Chapter 5. "This Beautiful Object": Russell’s Moon].

Tine Luk Meganck, Princeton University, 2003. 'Erudite eyes: Artists and antiquarians in the circle of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)'. UMI No. AAT 3080856.

Edgar Mejia, Boston University, 2006. ‘Politicas del espacio en Mexico: Cronica de viaje y cartografia en el siglo XIX (Manuel Payno, Antonio Garcia Cubas, Porfirio Diaz, Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Justo Sierra)’. UMI No. AAT 3214964.

Andrew Merrills, Trinity College, Cambridge, May 2001. 'Geography in early Christian historiography'.

Bernardo A. Michael, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, December 2001. 'Separating the yam from the boulder: statemaking, space, and the causes of the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816'.

Bronwyn Mills, New York University, 2004. ‘Caribbean cartographies: Maps, cosmograms, and the Caribbean imagination’. UMI No. AAT 3114212.

Kenneth Pearce Mitchell, University of Minnesota, July 2002. 'In pursuit of empire: French and Spanish colonialism in North America, 1590-1640'. UMI No. AAT 3056342.

Florian Mittenhuber, Universität Bern, Institut für Klassische Philologie, May 2005. 'Das Verhältnis von Text- und Kartentradition in der Geographie des Ptolemaios' [Tradition of texts and maps in Ptolemy's Geography]. (The dissertation was issued on CD-Rom in May 2005, and a book is due for summer 2006).

Carme Montaner, University of Barcelona, Department of Human Geography, 1995. `Topographic mapping in Catalonia: from private initiatives to the regional administrative projects (1833-1941).'

William Edgar Moreau, University of Toronto, Department of English, 1997. `David Thompson's writing of his Travels: the genesis of an emerging exploration text'.

Renaud Morieux. University of Lille 3, June 2005. 'La Manche au 18e siècle: la construction d'une frontière franco-anglaise' [The Channel in the 18th century: the Building of a Border between England and France]. [Due to be published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2007; maps are discussed in: Chapter 2, ‘Noms de mer’ & Chapter 3, ‘Situer la Manche’.]

Victoria Morse, University of California, Berkeley, Medieval History, Berkeley, 1996. `Church, Society, and Individual in the Works of Opicino de Canistris'.

Jana Moser, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Kartographie), 2007. 'Untersuchungen zur Kartographiegeschichte von Namibia. Die Entwicklung des Karten- und Vermessungswesens von den Anfängen bis zur Unabhängigkeit 1990'. Published online.

Ian Mumford, University of Reading, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, December 1999. 'Milestones in lithographed cartography from 1800'.

Jamil Muhammed Mustafa, University of Chicago, 1999. 'Mapping the late-Victorian subject: psychology, cartography and the Gothic novel'.

Jana Niederöst, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, June 2005. 'Das Relief der Urschweiz von Franz Ludwig Pfyffer (1716-1802): 3D-Rekonstruktion, Analyse und Interpretation' [The relief of central Switzerland by Franz Ludwig Pfyffer (1716-1802): Three-dimensional reconstruction, analysis and interpretation] (Diss. ETH Nr.16077). [See Cartographica Helvetica 32 (July 2005), inside front cover, and, for Abstract .]

Kamil Niescioruk, University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (Cartography), Lublin, Poland, November 2006. 'Metodyczne aspekty kartograficznej analizy i oceny dawnych planow miast na przykladzie planu Lublina z 1716 roku C. d'Orkena' [Methodical aspects of cartographic analysis and evaluation of early city plans based on the example of the plan of Lublin by C. d'Örken (1716)].     Personal webpage

Marianne O'Doherty, University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies, 2006. 'Eyewitness Accounts of "the Indies" in the Later Medieval West: Reading, Reception, and Re-use (c.1300-1500)' [including the impact of travellers' accounts on cosmological writings and cartography].

Kory E. Olson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park (French), August 2006. ‘Mapping Modernity: Representations of Paris in the Early Third Republic, 1870-1900’.

Iffet Orbay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, June 2001. 'Istanbul viewed: the representation of the city in Ottoman maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'.

Valeria Pansini, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, November 2002. 'L'oeil du topographe et la science de la guerre: travail scientifique et perception militaire (1760-1820)'.

Christopher Andrew Parkes, Queen's University at Kingston (Canada), 1997. 'With the assistance of maps: the eighteenth-century English novel and the rise of the nation-state'.

Robert Edward Paulett, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, 2007. 'Trading lives: Mapping the pathways and peoples of the southeastern deerskin trade, 1732-1775'. AAT 3268808.

Margaret Pearce, Clark University, Worcester, MA, Graduate School, May 1998. `Native and Colonial Mapping in Western Connecticut Land Records'.

Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier, University of Toronto, Department of English, February 2003.'Mapping, Mobility, and Selfhood in Nineteenth-Century Narrative: Sir Richard F. Burton, Herman Melville, and Charles Dickens'. UMI No. AAT NQ78353.

* Jeffrey Nolan Peters, University of Michigan, 1996. ' "Sçavoir la carte": allegorical maps and the cartographics of culture in seventeenth-century France'.

* Marco Petrella, University of Bologna (History), 2004. 'Il ritratto della Borgogna: il ruolo delle geografie nella costruzione di un territorio tra XVIII e XIX secolo'. [Due for publication in 2008.]

Vytautas Petronis, Stockholm University, 2007. 'Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914'. Stockholm Studies in History, 91 / Södertöm Doctoral Dissertations, 21. Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2007. [ISBN 978-91-85445-79-0 or 978-91-89315-78-5, distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International.]

Catherine Phipps, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), 2007. 'Imperial Geographies: Remapping Northern Kyushu in Asia, 1889-1930'.

Karen Pinto, Columbia University, February 2001. 'Ways of seeing. 3: scenarios of the world in the medieval Islamic imagination'.

* Aybulat Psyanchin, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences [Ufa], Institute of Ethnology, April 1998. 'Istoriya geograficheskogo izucheniya i kartografirovaniya Bashkortostana do 20-go veka' [A history of the geographical exploration and mapping of Bashkortostan (pre-20th century)]. Candidate of Science Dissertation (Geography).

Aybulat Psyanchin, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Ethnology, November 2004. 'Istoriya etnograficheskoy kartografii v Rossii do nachala XX veka' [A history of ethnological cartography in Russia before the twentieth century]. The (higher) Doctor of Science Degree.

Ramon J. Pujades i Bataller, Universitat de València. Estudi General (Historia de l'Antiguitat i de la cultura escrita) - though actually working at the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona (Facultativo de archivos), September 2005. 'Escriure l'espai baixmedieval: la producció cartogràfica en el Mediterrani occidental del segles XIII, XIV i XV' [Writing late medieval space: cartographic production in the western Mediterranean in the XIIIth, XIVth and XVth centuries].

Alex Claire Purves, University of Pennsylvania, 2002. 'Telling space: topography, time, and narrative from Homer to Xenophon (Greece)'. UMI No. AAT 3043943.

Patrice Ract, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2000. 'Les ingénieurs géographes des camps et armées du roi, de la guerre de Sept Ans à la Révolution (1756-1791): étude institutionnelle, prosopographique et sociale'. See, for long summary.

Richard Raiswell, University of Toronto, Department of History, 2003. 'Before the Company: English perceptions of India in the sixteenth century'.

Gabriele Recker, Bonn University, 2003. ‘Von Trier nach Köln 1550-1850. Kartographiehistorische Beiträge zur historisch-geographischen Verkehrswegeforschung. Betrachtungen zum Problem der Altkarten als Quelle anhand eines Fallbeispieles aus den Rheinlanden’. [Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2003 (ISBN: 3-89646-025-0).]

Paul G. Regan, University of Southampton, 1996. `The construction of patriotic sentiment in the 16th- century Low Countries: cartography, Calvinism and rebel propaganda'.

Francesc Relaño, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilisation, Florence, 1997. `The idea of Africa within myth and reality: cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in the late middle ages and early modern Europe'.

* David West Reynolds, University of Michigan, 1996. 'Forbis Urbis Romae: the Severan Marble Plan and the Urban Form of Ancient Rome'.

Christopher Jacob Ries, University Centre of Roskilde, Institute for History and Society, European Cultural Studies, September 2002. 'Lauge Koch sagen den danske geolog strid 1935-38' [about the Danish geologist who mapped North East Greenland].

Etienne Rivard, University of British Columbia, 2005. 'Prairie and Quebec Metis territoriality: Interstices territoriales and the cartography of in-between identity' ["largely based on an investigation of colonial maps"]. UMI No. AAT NQ99540.

Sean Roberts, University of Michigan (History of Art), August 2006. ‘Cartography between Cultures: Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia of 1482’.

Michael Frederick Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002. 'The coldest crucible: Arctic exploration and American culture, 1850-1910'. UMI No. AAT 3049319.

Olga Sergeevna Romanova, Yakutsk State University, Russia (Biology-Geography), March 2005. 'Istoriya geograficheskogo izucheniya i kartografirovaniya Yakutii (v XVII - nachale XX veka)' [Mapping Yakutia territory from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century]. Candidate of Science Degree.

Stephanie Roper, University of Kansas, Department of History, May 1998. `Paper conquests: early modern English mapping of North America as promotional tools'.

Mark Rosen, University of California, Berkeley, Department of the History of Art, December 2004. 'The Cosmos in the Palace: The Palazzo Vecchio Guardaroba and the Culture of Cartography in Early Modern Florence, 1563-1589'.

Elizabeth Ross, Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture, 2004. 'Picturing Knowledge and Experience in the Early Printed Book: Reuwich's illustrations for Breydenbach's Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486)'.

* Andrea Ruiz-Esquide, Columbia University (History), 2001. 'From Mapuche Frontier to Chilean Province: A History of Malleco in the Second Half of the 19th Century'.

Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (History of Art I (Middle Ages)), December 2007. 'Imagen y conocimiento del mundo en la Edad Media a través de la cartografía hispana' [Image and knowledge of the world in the Middle Ages through Spanish cartography].

Neil F. Safier, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, September 2003. 'Writing the Andes, reading the Amazon: voyages of exploration and the itineraries of scientific knowledge in the eighteenth century'.

Alison Sandman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science Department, 2001. 'Cosmographers vs. pilots: navigation, cosmography, and the state in early modern Spain'.

Rhonda Lemke Sanford, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of English Renaissance Literature, December 1998. `A sense of place: maps and their representations in English Renaissance Literature'.

Alessandro Scafi, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, Universityof London, December 1999. 'The notion of earthly paradise from the Patristic era to the fifteenth century'.

Daniel Schlögl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften, February 2001. Published as: Der planvolle Staat. Raumerfassung und Reformen in Bayern 1750-1800. - München : Beck, 2002. - LXIV, 282 S. : Ill., Kt. & Beil. - (Schriftenreihe zur bayerischen Landesgeschichte ; 138)

Susan Schulten, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History, 1995. `The Transformation of World Geography in American Life, 1880-1950'.

Steven J. Seegel, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Department of History, August 2005. 'Blueprinting Modernity: Nation-State Cartography and Intellectual Ordering in Russia's European Empire, Ukraine, and Former Poland-Lithuania, 1795-1917'.

Zur Shalev, Princeton University, Department of History, June 2004. 'Geographia sacra: cartography, religion, and scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'.

Brian C. Shipley, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (History), May 2007. 'From Field to Fact: William E. Logan and the Geological Survey of Canada'. AAT NR27185.    Personal webpage

* Mirela Slukan, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Sciences, 1999. [Spatial Development of Zagreb since the Middle of the 19th Century on the Basis of Cadastral Sources]. (In Croatian with English summary).

Margaret Ann Small, Oxford University, St Edmund Hall College, Department of Modern History, August 2004. 'Boundaries and Balance: Classical Influences on Sixteenth Century Geographical Thought'.

Donald Kimball Smith, University of Iowa, 2001. 'Mapping more than the world: Shaping the cartographic imagination in late medieval and early modern England (Edmund Spenser, Christopher Saxton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell)'.

Kelvin Smith, University of Essex, Department of Sociology, May 2007. ‘Located Interconnections: The Social Construction of Place, Identity and Community in the Carib Territory, Dominica’ [Chapter 2 'Paper Wraps Stone' deals with the depiction of Carib Indians in Dominican cartography 1763-1903, Chapter 3 'Big River to Big River' looks at the disputed mapping of the Carib Reserve 1903-1970s, and Chapter 7 'An Empty Meeting Ground' contains a critique of recent tourist maps of Dominica].

Renata Šolar, University of Zagreb, Croatia (Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Information Science), April 2006. [Digital catalogue of selected maps from the Map and Pictorial Collection at the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia]. (In Croatian with English summary).

Eve C. Sorum, University of Michigan, 2006. ‘Mapping Modernism: Connections between Cartography and Literature’. UMI No. AAT 3208316.

Daniel Speich, Universität Zürich, 2003. 'Helvetische Meliorationen: Die Neuordnung der gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse an der Linth (1783-1823)'. [Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 2003 - ISBN 3-03-400664-0.]

Morten Stenak, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark, Institute for History, Culture and Society, Cartographical Documentation Center, October 2002. 'De inddæmmede landskaber' [The reclaimed land].

Jeffrey Paul Stone, University of Texas at Arlington, 2007. 'Mapping the "Red Menace": British and American news maps in the early Cold War period, 1945 to 1955'. AAT 3258613.

Jeppe Strandsbjerg, University of Sussex (International Relations and Politics). [2008]. 'The Cartographic Reality of Space: Territory, Globalisation and International Relations'. [Drawing on history of cartography theory and discussing the early modern mapping of the world and Denmark.]

* Garrett Arthur Sullivan Jr, Brown University, 1995. 'Staging space: the theatre and social relations in early modern England'.

Isabelle Surun, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, December 2003. 'Géographie de l’exploration: la carte, le terrain et le texte (Afrique occidentale, 1780-1880)'.

Petra Svatek, Vienna University, 2005. 'Wolfgang Lazius als Kartograph. Eine Analyse seiner Karten in Bezug auf die Werke anderer Kartenmacher des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts' [Wolfgang Lazius as cartographer: An analysis of his maps with reference to the works of other mapmakers of the 16th and 17th centuries]. 2 vols., 474 pp.

René Tebel, Universität Wien, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, February 2004. 'Das Schiff im Kartenbild als Quelle für den Historiker. Vom Anbeginn der Überlieferung kartographischer Zeugnisse im abendländischen Mittelalter bis zum Zeitalter J. Blaeus (1602)' [Ship illustrations on maps as a source for the historian. From the beginning of cartographical tradition in the occidental middle ages to the age of J. Blaeu (1602)].

John K. Treiber, University of Hawai`i at Mânoa (History), 2005. ‘Mapping Manchuria: The Japanese Production of Knowledge in Manchuria-Manchukuo to 1945’.

Lan-ying Tseng, Harvard University, 2001. 'Picturing heaven: Image and knowledge in Han China'.

Emmanuelle Vagnon, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (Histoire médiévale), November 2007. 'Cartographies et représentations de l’Orient méditerranéen en occident (du milieu du XIIIe à la fin du XVe siècle') [Ad Orientem: cartographical representations of the East Mediterranean and the Holy Land in western countries, (XIIIth - end of XVth centuries)].

Michiel van Groesen, University of Amsterdam, April 2007. 'The De Bry collection of voyages: editorial strategy and the representations of the overseas world' [Chapter 11 deals with the influence of the De Bry iconography on illustrated maps of the seventeenth century; a revised version to be published as: The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry collection of voyages (1590-1634) (Leiden: Brill, 2008).]

Cynthia Jean Van Zandt, University of Connecticut, 1998. 'Negotiating settlement: colonialism, cultural exchange, and conflict in early colonial Atlantic North America, 1580-1660'.

Jean-Michel Vasquez, Université Lyon II (History), December 2007. 'Une cartographie missionnaire. L'Afrique de l'exploration à l'appropriation, au nom du Christ et de la science (1870-années 1930)'.

Alejandra Vega, Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago), 2005. 'Descripcion geografica e identidad territorial: representaciones cartograficas de la cordillera de los Andes del reino de Chile en el siglo XVI' (for which she received the "Premio Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal 2006" of the Academia Chilena de la Historia).

Wendy Waters, University of Arizona, Department of History, May 1999. 'Re-mapping the nation: road building as state formation in post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1925-1940'.

Ruth Watson, Australian National University, 2005. 'A heart-shaped world: Johannes Stabius, Oronce Fine and the meanings of the cordiform map'.

* Thomas de Wesselow, University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2000. 'The wall of the Mappamondo: the Trecento decoration of the west wall of the Sala del Mappamondo in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico'.

Mary Catherine Wilheit, Texas A&M University, Department of History, 2003. ‘Colonial surveyors in Southern Maryland’.

Jürgen Wilke, University of Göttingen, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Institut für Historische Landesforschung, June 1999. 'Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte'. [To be published in two volumes: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Historische Landesforschung der Universität Göttingen, Vol. 39 (Bielefeld, 2001)].

H.D. Winlow, Queen's University, Belfast, 1999. ' Cartographic representations of race, c.1850-1930'.

* Christian Witschel, University of Leipzig, 1997. `Nationalatlanten. Entwicklung, Konzeption, Gestaltung, Funktion´. Published: Köln, 1998.

Thomas M. Woodfin, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, December 2007. 'The cartography of capitalism: cartographic evidence for the emergence of the capitalist world-system in early modern Europe'.

Adèle Lorraine Wörz, Oregon State University, January 2007. 'The visualization of perspective systems and iconology in Dürer’s cartographic works: an in-depth analysis using multiple methodological approaches'. Abstract

* Marcia Ann Yonemoto,University of California, Berkeley (History), 1995. 'Mapping culture in eighteenth-century Japan'.

* Igor' A. Zakharenko, Beelarus State University [Minsk], Geography Department, October 1995. 'Istoriya kartografirovaniya Ussuriyskogo kraya Rossiyskogo Dal'nego Vostoka' [A history of the mapping of the Ussuri Region in the Russian Far East (mid-17th to early 20th century)]. Candidate of Science Dissertation (Geography).

Kees Zandvliet (formerly of the General State Archives, The Hague, now Curator for Dutch History at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), Leiden University, April 1998. `Mapping for Money: maps, plans and topographic paintings and their role in Dutch overseas expansion'. [Published in English - see Imago Mundi `Bibliography' vol.51].

Jennifer S. Zarro, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2007. 'Views of Philadelphia and the culture of geography, 1780-1800: Maps, magazine engravings, and William Birch'. AAT 3277332.