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The Fellowship The annual two-month residential fellowship is granted in memory of David Woodward, a founding editor of The History of Cartography, and is made possible by the generosity of Arthur and Janet Holzheimer. The fellowship gives scholars an opportunity to research and write on a subject related to the history of cartography in a stimulating academic environment. Preference is given to proposals that compliment one of the forthcoming volumes of The History of Cartography, but choice of subject matter is otherwise open. Fellows are hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities. The Institute provides office space and other facilities and resources, including full access to University of Wisconsin–Madison libraries. Participation in the scholarly community of the Institute is strongly encouraged. Support for travel and the two-month residency is currently $7,000. This amount is subject to taxes in accordance with U.S. law and international tax treaties; fellows may also be required to pay fees for short-term health insurance premiums or other services mandated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fellowship Recipients 2009-10 Carla Lois Mapping modernity: Science and civilization in Argentinian cartographical institutions (1853-1941) 2008-09 Stéphane Blond Administrative maps in Europe, 1650-1800 2007-08 Isaac Sáenz Urban cartography and Enlightenment in late viceregal Peru (1687-1800) 2006-07 Zsolt Török Marsigli, Marinoni, Mikoviny: Enlightenment cartography in east-central Europe (c. 1700-1750) 2005-06 Valeria Pansini Military cartography in the Enlightenment: Fieldwork and the body of the surveyor 2004-05 Mercedes Camino Narratives and maps of four eighteenth-century Spanish voyages to the Pacific (c. 1770-1780) 2003-04 Neil Safier The intersections of anthropology, history, and cartography in the context of eighteenth-century colonial Iberoamerica 2002-03 Phil Steinberg Origins of the territorial state in early modern marine cartography, 1450-1800 2001-02 George Tolias Forms of map collecting in the Renaissance and the function of maps in the creation of encyclopedic knowledge The Institutions The Institute for Research in the Humanities, founded in 1959 as the first institute in North America devoted solely to the support and encouragement of humanistic scholarship, is located in the heart of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The Institute supports research in the traditional humanistic areas of literature, history, and philosophy; it also promotes interdisciplinary scholarship, while cultivating methodological diversity and breadth. More information about the Institute and a list of resident scholars is available at http://www.wisc.edu/irh/. The University of Wisconsin–Madison libraries are particularly well suited to humanistic and cartographic scholarship. Memorial Library (with three million volumes) is the principal research facility on campus for the humanities and social sciences and has an excellent collection of historical monographs and reference books. It also houses an extensive periodical collection. The Department of Special Collections contains the Chester H. Thordarson Collection in the history of science and is strong in the history of books and printing. The Geography Library contains UW’s primary collection of geography and cartography and is housed in Science Hall, which is also the location of the Geography Department, the Robinson Map Library, and the History of Cartography Project office. The History of Cartography Project maintains an archive of articles and illustrations used in previous volumes that are available for consultation. More information on UW-Madison’s libraries may be found on the internet at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/. Applications The application deadline is 19 February 2010 for the next available fellowship, which is to be taken any two months between July 2010 and June 2011. Applicants for the David Woodward Memorial Fellowship should hold a Ph.D. or equivalent. Application instructions are available for download as a Microsoft Word document or in PDF: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/applydwfellow.doc http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/applydwfellow.pdf A hard copy of the application instructions is available on request from: Loretta Freiling Institute for Research in the Humanities University of Wisconsin–Madison 432 East Campus Mall, Room 220 Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-262-3855 Fax: 608-264-4357 Email: freiling@wisc.edu (Physical Address: Room 220, University Club, which is on the East Campus Mall) Questions about research topics should be directed to History of Cartography Project director Matthew Edney (edney@wisc.edu or 608-263-3992). Questions about the application process and residency should be directed to Loretta Freiling (freiling@wisc.edu or 608-262-3855). The selection of the fellow will be made on the recommendation of the editors of Volumes Four, Five, and Six of The History of Cartography and of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Please forward this announcement to appropriate venues.