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ANNOUNCING THE TWENTY- FIRST 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 twenty-first series of awards, offering support to assist research in the map collections of the United Kingdom. Awards have been made to:

 

Allegra Giovine (University of Pennsylvania) The Political Meaning of Maps: L. Dudley Stamp and the economic map of nature in Burma and Britain, c. 1920-1945 (3 weeks)

Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku, Finland) British Geographies of Australia 1830-1860 (2 weeks)

Professor Camille Serchuk (South Connecticut State University) Art, Cartography and Visual Culture in France 1450-1610 (2 weeks)

For the period 2014-2017, 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. Awards have been made to:

Professor Karl Offen  (University of Oklahoma)  From Local Knowledge to British maps: Tracing the links in Caribbean Central America   (3 weeks)  

Roberto Chauca (University of Florida) Science in the Jungle: the missionary mapping and national imaginings of western Amazonia.  (2 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 Trust
17 January 2014

 

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