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Calendar of Deadlines in the History of Cartography

(for fellowship and prize applications, submission of paper proposals for meetings, or special issues of journals)

[Note. Most of the fellowship and prize deadlines recur annually [marked with *] and those will therefore be left on this page after the date has passed. Be aware that the date may change from one year to the next, and should always be checked. Where institutions have not yet updated their site, the previous year's deadline is left, followed by a question-mark. Otherwise, the date is followed by [C] indicating that the next deadline has been confirmed and noted or [P] for permanently fixed dates

Last checked (up to the end of 2025) on 16 June 2025

2025

* January 3 [C]. Short-term Fellowships in the History of Cartography (Newberry Library, Chicago).
* January 15 [C]. Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography (and other both short- and long fellowships) (William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
* January 17 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)
* January 31. [C]. Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships for use, inter alia, with cartographic material from the Stephen S. Clark Library, Unversity of Michigan)

February 17 [Deadline for for first round of admissions]. A week-long seminar, 'H-65, Material Foundations of Map History, 1450-1900', taught by Matthew Edney, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1-6 June 2025.

* March 1 [C]. Hakluyt Society Essay Prize.
* March 3 [C]. Short-Term Research Fellowships (New York Public Library)
March 17 [Deadline for Call for Papers]. A one-day conference on the History of Map Collecting, Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond, at the University of Vienna, organised jointly by the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting (Austria) and Moravian Library in Brno (Czech Republic) and will be accompanied by a poster exhibition on Bernard Paul Moll composite atlas preserved at Moravian Library which originated in Vienna in the 18th century (Vienna, 12 June 2025). Contact: chodejovska(at)mzk.cz.

* April 1 [C]. London Topographical Society. Ann Saunders Essay Prize.

* May 1 [P]. Helen Wallis Fellowship (British Library)
* May 1 [?]. Graduate Scholar-in-Residence program at the Newberry Library, Chicago (for advanced PhD students for the period September-May). {It is not clear if this has been renamed as the Newberry Scholar-in-Residence, nor is the deadline date obvious}
May 9 [Deadline for Call for Papers]. Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society ANZMaps, 'Southern Frontiers', at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), (Hobart, Tasmania, 17-18 October 2025).
May 10. [Deadline for Call for Papers]. Symposium: 'Les expositions cartographiques (19e-21e siècles)' / 'Map exhibitions (19th-20th centuries)', INHA (Paris) - Salle Vasari (Paris, 14 November 2025). The papers selected will be published in an issue of the journal of the French Cartography Committee, Cartes & Géomatique, in 2026.
May 15. [Deadline for Call for Papers]. Workshop: 'Hang Them Up! New Perspectives on Historical Wall Maps Studies', at the Società Geografica Italiana, (Rome. 8-9 October 2025).
May 16. [Deadline for Call for Papers]. Annual conference of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 'Mountains as Sites of Myth, Barriers, and Exploration', hosted by the Denver Public Library and the Rocky Mountain Map Society. (Denver 23-25 October 2025).
* May 20 [P]. Leventhal Map & Education Center Small Grants Fund for Early Career Digital Publications.

* June. The application for the 2024-2025 Fellowship was available in June 2024; perhaps the same will apply for 2025: Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (fellowship for work on the collections of the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library - of which the The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division forms a part)
* June 1 [P]. Walter W Ristow Essay Prize (Washington Map Society)
June 15 [P]. Fellowships for Women Researchers (Gotha Research Library).
* June 16 [C]. [Extended from June 1] Society for the History of Discoveries Student Research Prize
* June ? ["We are reviewing our Fellowships and Scholarships Program...There may be some changes to the program after 2025"]. Dr Bennie Ng Scholarship - for research in the National Library of Ausralia's map collection [NB. Started 2024.]

July 30. [Deadline for Call for Papers]. 'Premodern Mapping Today', a panel at the Renaissance Society of America (San Francisco, 19-21 July 2026).
* July 31 [C]. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Short-term Research Fellowships)

August 31. [Deadline for Call for Papers]. XI Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía. "Mapear y proyectar. Territorios dibujados, diseñados y representados". (La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8-10 April 2026).

* September 10 []. Bibliographical Society of America (Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography). See also Application Guidelines.
* September 15 [C]. Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship (John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society at the Library of Congress)
* September 30 []. Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship Programme at the Research Library Gotha and the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt. See also the Bewerbung.
* September 30 []. The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Award (for 'advanced research in the History of the Book', with maps specifically included)
* September 30 [] Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)

* October 31 []. Mendel Fellowship (a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington)

* November 1 [P]. J.B. Harley Research Fellowships (London)
* November 15 []. Long-term Fellowships. (Newberry Library)
* November 15 [C]. Huntington Library (applications from 31 August; a range of short- and long-term fellowships - San Marino, California)
* November 29 [?] Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections.
* November 29 []. American Geographical Society Library Fellowships (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

* December 1 [P]. Allard Pierson fellowships (starting in 2024, replacing the Explokart fellowship)
* December 31 [-]. ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History'. [NB. This prize is awarded every two years, currently in the odd year.]

DEADLINE DATES UNKNOWN OR CONTINUATION UNCLEAR

National Library of Australia Fellowships (Canberra)

Leventhal Map & Education Center Public Research Fellows in History and Geography (between one and three weeks in residence at the LMEC, Boston Public Library) ['not currently available' - seen 1 January 2024].

National Maritime Museum Research Fellowships (London, Greenwich). "The Caird Fellowship Scheme is not currently accepting new applications, as the team work on a revised research strategy for Royal Museums Greenwich." [seen 1 January 2024].

Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (see for details of the Crone and Warnsinck Fellowships)

William and Madeline Welder Smith Travel Award (see the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History - University of Texas at Austin)

Different dates, check website. State Library of New South Wales (various grants for Australian history, e.g. C.H. Currey, Nancy Keesing and Milt Luger Fellowships)

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