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Curriculum Vitae: Matthew Henry Edney

Education

  • Ph.D. Geography. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Awarded May 1990.
  • M.S. Cartography. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Awarded December 1985.
  • B.Sc. (Honors) Geography. University College London, University of London. First-class degree awarded August 1983.

Professional Appointments

  • Associate Scientist. Project Director, History of Cartography Project, Department of Geography. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2005-2007.
  • Visiting Associate Professor. Program in American Culture. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2004-2005.
  • Associate Professor, Departments of Geography-Anthropology and American & New England Studies, and Faculty Scholar, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. University of Southern Maine, Portland. 1995 to present (unpaid leave of absence, 2004-2007).
  • Assistant Professor. Department of Geography. State University of New York, Binghamton. 1990-1995.

Scholarship

Peer-Reviewed Books, Monographs, and Edited Works

  • The Origins and Development of J. B. Harley's Cartographic Theories. Cartographica Monograph 54. Cartographica 40, nos. 1 & 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. ISSN 0317-7173. (x + 143 pp.)
  • Mapping an Empire: The Geographic Construction of British India, 1765-1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN 0-226-18487-0 cloth; 0-226-18488-9 paper. (xxii + 458 pp.) Reprinted, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999 (ISBN 019-565172-3). Reprinted digitally by the University of Chicago Press, via net Library, «www.netlibrary.com», 2000 (ISBN 0-226-18486-2).

Selected Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Mapping Parts of the World." In Maps: Finding Our Place in History, ed. James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the Field Museum of Natural History and the Newberry Library, forthcoming in 2007.
  • "The Irony of Imperial Mapping." In The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2007.
  • "Putting 'Cartography' into the History of Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a Discipline." Cartographic Perspectives no. 51 (Spring 2005): 14-29.
  • [MHE and Susan Cimburek] "Telling the Traumatic Truth: William Hubbard's Narrative of King Philip's War and his 'Map of New-England'." William and Mary Quarterly 3s 61, no. 2 (2004): 317-48.
  • "Bringing India to Hand: Mapping an Empire, Denying Space." In The Global Eighteenth Century, ed. Felicity Nussbaum, 65-78 and 334-36. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003; reprinted in paperback, 2005.

Selected Other Recent Essays

  • "Printed but not Published: Limited-Circulation Maps of Territorial Disputes in Eighteenth-Century New England." In Liber Amicorum Günter Schilder, ed. Peter van der Krogt, Paul van den Brink, Marco van Egmond, and Paula van Gestel. Utrecht: Faculteit Geowetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht, forthcoming in February 2007.
  • "Recent Trends in the History of Cartography: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography to the English-Language Literature." Version 2.0. Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. B, no. 6 (10 March 2006). «http://purl.oclc.org/coordinates/b6.pdf» or «http://purl.oclc.org/coordinates/b6.htm».
  • "New England Mapped: The Creation of a Colonial Territory." In La Cartografia europea tra primo Rinascimento e fine dell'Illuminismo, ed. Diogo Ramada Curto, Angelo Cattaneo, and André Ferrand Almeida, 155-76. Florence: Leo S. Olshki Editore, 2003.
  • "Mapping the Republic: Conflicting Concepts of the Character and Territory of the USA, 1790-1900." On-line, 10 October 2003, «http://usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibit11».

Selected Recent Presentations

  • "Mapping Empires, Mapping Bodies: Reflections on the Use and Abuse of Cartography." Invited presentation to the Catalan Geographical Society. Barcelona. 17 October 2006.
  • "To De-Fetishize the Map: Unraveling Cartography and Modernity." Invited presentation in association with the Mellon Graduate Workshop on Critical Approaches to Modernity. Brown University, Providence, RI. 18 April 2006.
  • "The History of Cartography: New Era, New Prospects." Invited keynote lecture for the 13th Miami International Map Fair, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami. 4 February 2006.
  • "Mapping Past Cartographies, or How to Write a World History of Maps Without Fetishizing Them." Invited lecture to the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin. 9 December 2005.
  • "Creating New England: The Cartographic Naturalization of a Region." Paper for the selected panel, "American Maps, American Culture: The Cartographic Fixing of Identity, Knowledge and Power," organized by Maria Lane (Texas). American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. 4 November 2005.
  • "Designing the Structure for Cartography in the European Enlightenment." Paper in the competitively selected panel, "The History of Cartography Project: An Update and Overview of Current Work," organized by MHE. 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. 18 July 2005.
  • "The Irony of Imperial Mapping." Invited lead lecture for the 15th Nebenzahl Lectures, "The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire," organized by James R. Akerman. The Newberry Library, Chicago. 7 October 2004.
  • "Imperial Mapping as the Construction of Exclusive Identities." Invited lecture for the conference, "Space and Place in the Early Modern World," organized by Benjamin Schmidt and Louisa Mackenzie. Early Modern Research Group at the University of Washington, Seattle. 21 May 2004.

Works in Preparation

  • [MHE and Mary Pedley, eds.] Cartography in the European Enlightenment, volume 4 of The History of Cartography, founding editors J. B. Harley and David Woodward, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.
  • Contributions to Cartography in the Twentieth Century, ed. Mark Monmonier, volume 6 of The History of Cartography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in preparation).
  • Maps: A Short Introduction. For submission to Blackwell's series, "Short Introductions to Geography." «http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/seriesbyseries.asp?ref=SIGZ»
  • A series of studies on the cartographies of colonial New England.

Current Professional Service

  • J. B. Harley Research Fellowships Trust. (A not-for-profit trust fund that awards travel grants to scholars seeking to use U.K. archives for studies in the history of cartography.) Trustee (unpaid). January 2006 to date.
  • Imago Mundi, Ltd. (A not-for-profit company, registered with the U.K. Charity Commission, that publishes Imago Mundi and sponsors the international conferences on the history of cartography.) Director (unpaid). January 2003 to date.
  • American Friends of the J. B. Harley Research Fellowships, Inc. (A not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation, registered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., which raises capital for scholarships and travel awards in the history of cartography.) Director (unpaid). December 1995 to date. Chairman and President (unpaid). October 2004 to date.
  • Journal of Historical Geography. Member, Editorial Board. Fall 2005 to date.
  • Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association. 2004 to date.
  • MapForum. Member, Honorary Editorial Board. 2004 to date.