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Past Best Fellows 2009 John Rennie Short – University of Maryland, The role of the national atlas in creating and disseminating images of the nation state. Ute Schneider - Universität Duisburg-Essen, Aspects of the International Map of the World especially pertaining to secret German editions issued during the National Socialist era.
2008 Sandra Zito - University of California, Irvine. Mapping Europe: the Normative Discourse of the European Union, or European Borders, Territory and Identity in the Past and Present. Geoffrey Martin - Southern Connecticut State University (Emeritus). Research on comprehensive history of American geography.
2007 Karl Offen - University of Oklahoma. Mapping Mosquitia, the Geographical Imagination in Central America. Barney Warf - Florida State University. Folding Time and Space, Historical Geographies of Time-Space Compression. Alastair Pearson - University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom). The American Geographical Society and the 1:1 Million Map of Hispanic America.
2006 Richard W. Dixon - Texas State University. Content analysis of early climatology textbooks Innes M. Keighren - University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). Research the work of Ellen Churchill Semple, the author of Influences of Geographic Environment.
2005 Stephanie Hom Cary - University of California, Berkeley. John Cloud - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Christina Dando - University of Nebraska at Omaha. Urbano Fra - Universidad de Extramadura (Spain). Geoffrey Martin - Southern Connecticut State University (retired).
2004 Sandra Gaskell – American Indian Council of Mariposa County. Study the cartography and field notes of early explorers of the Sierra Nevada. Paul Longley Arthur – Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. A study of the correlations between narrative and mapping in the Americas. M. Sean Chenoweth – University of Louisiana, Monroe. A study of the age, origin and purpose of the trails of the Jamaican Cockpit Country. Viva G. Nordberg – University of Kentucky. The development of metaphors such as life spans and cycles from earlier ideas in natural history.
2003 John Cloud - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A study of the origins and evolution of geographic integration by overlay. Jeremy Crampton - Georgia State University. Early thematic mapping of the American Geographical Society. Nancy Kandoian - Map Division, New York Public Library. A project to compile an annotated bibliography of sources for locating early ancestral villages of Armenians in eastern Anatolia.
2002 Ian R. Manners - Univ. of Texas (Austin). Mapping the Middle East. Scott R. McEathron - Univ. of Illinois. Descriptive cartobibliography of manuscript maps in the American Geographical Society Library.
2001 Geoffrey J. Martin - Southern Connecticut State University. Research toward multi-volume History of Geography in Anglo-America. (Special AGS Commemorative Fellowship) Joel Outtes - Oxford University (U.K.) Project to compile an Historical Atlas of Brazilian Cities. Alexei V. Postnikov - Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Russian Central Asian Frontier and boundary with the Chinese Empire (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries).
2000 Mercedes Maroto Camino - Univ. of Auckland (N.Z.). Representing the Pacific, 1519-1606. Philip E. Steinberg - Florida State University. Research into the changing conventions in marine cartography from the late 15th through the late 20th centuries, as part of an ongoing study of changing uses, regulations and representations of ocean space. Comments for the AGSL? Send them to agsl@uwm.edu. |
