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ANNOUNCING THE EIGHTEENTH SERIES OF J B HARLEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN
THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

The Trustees of the J B Harley Research Fellowships Trust Fund are
pleased to announce the eighteenth series of awards, offering support to
assist research in the map collections of the United Kingdom.

Awards have been made to:



Mr 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’ (2 weeks)



Ms Galia Halpern (doctoral student, New York University, Institute of
Fine Arts): ‘Open Geography and the Illuminated Mandeville’s Travels’ (2
weeks)



Ms 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’  (2 weeks)



Ms Amy Prior (doctoral student, University of Edinburgh, Institute of
Geography):  ‘The Cartographic Representation of Africa, 1880-1915:
Print Histories of African Mapping’  (2 weeks)



For the period 2007-2011, in addition to the normal J B Harley
Fellowships there are also Harley-Delmas Fellowships funded by the
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, for research on the history of
cartography during the European Renaissance to the Enlightenment
c.1400-c.1800.

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’  (3 weeks)



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)’  (3 weeks)



Dr Pamela O. Long (independent scholar, Washington): ‘Engineering the
Eternal City: Power, Knowledge, and Urbanization in Rome, 1557-1590’  (4
weeks)



For details of past awards, numbers of applicants, and extracts from
previous Fellows’ reports, see http://www.maphistory.info/harlflws.html
[part of the 'Map History' gateway site]. This also contains information
about applying for a Fellowship (closing date 1st November each year).

Ms Rose Mitchell, Hon. Sec., Harley Fellowships
20 January 2010

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