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Guggenheim Fellowship for Susan Schulten
April 16 [seen April 20]. <
http://blogs.du.edu/today/news/history-professor-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship >
'History professor awarded Guggenheim fellowship'.
'Susan Schulten, associate professor of history at Denver University, has
received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ... The award
will fund Schulten's current book project, A Nation in Time and Space. The
book, which is under contract with University of Chicago Press, will examine
the rise of new forms of mapping and graphic knowledge in 19th and 20th
century American life.
'Schulten says that while historians routinely characterize the 19th
century as an era of expanding knowledge about the world, her research
concerns the cartographic form this knowledge took. As a historian, she is
drawn to the rise of thematic maps - or maps of information - such as the
first maps of slavery in 1861 and the first atlas of the census in 1874. In
many ways, she argues, this use of maps to ask and answer questions about
the world anticipated the more recent revolutions in cartography, such as
geographic information systems.
'"I investigate how these and new maps - and other types of graphic
information - both reflected and created new ways of thinking, acting and
governing in American life," says Schulten, who applied for the Guggenheim
fellowship in September. "My main point is that the proliferation of these
new maps was closely linked to the growth of the nation in both abstract and
concrete ways ..."
'Schulten has written about half of the book and will use the fellowship to
finish it while on sabbatical from fall 2010 to fall 2011. She will spend
the bulk of her time in Denver writing the book, but the short-term
fellowship will allow her to spend June researching at the Huntington
Library in Pasadena, Calif. She also will make short trips to study archives
in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee ...
'In addition to the book, Schulten plans to deliver a companion Web site
where visitors can see high-resolution versions of the maps. "Maps are
unusually rich artifacts for exploring history," she says. "I'm grateful for
the award and thrilled that my interest in the history of cartography is
shared by others."'
Tony Campbell
[email protected]
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