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Subject: J B Harley Research Fellowships in Cartography announced
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:46:57 -0000
From: Mitchell, Rose <[log in to unmask]>
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*ANNOUNCING THE SIXTEENTH 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 sixteenth series of awards, offering support to
assist research in the map collections of the United Kingdom.
Awards have been made to:
Mr Brett M Bennett (University of Texas at Austin): ‘The Cartographic
History of State Forestry in the British Indian Ocean 1850-1950’ (4 weeks)
Mr Spyridon Gkounis (The Ionian University, Greece, Department of
History): ‘Desertum et mare; Depictions of Monsters and Monstrous Races
in Medieval World Maps’ (2 weeks)
Ms Jamie McGowan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
‘Conventional Signs, Imperial Designs: The Surveying and Mapping of
Colonial Ghana, 1874-1963’ (4 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.
The second Harley-Delmas Fellow is Dr. S. Max Edelson (Associate
Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
: ‘The New Map of Empire: Cartography and Colonization in British
America, 1763-1783’ (6 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
30 January 2008
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