David Woodward Memorial Fellowship in the History of Cartography
2008-2009 Location: Wisconsin, United States
Fellowship Date: 2008-03-14
Created in honor of David Woodward, a founding editor of *The History of Cartography* , this annual fellowship provides support for a scholar to research and write on a subject related to the history of cartography while in residence for two months at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The fellow chosen for the 2008-2009 academic year will focus on a period relevant to any of the last three volumes (Four through Six) of *The History of Cartography* series, which cover the modern era from ca. 1650 to 2000; preference will be given to work that compliments one of the three volumes.
The fellowship is made possible by the generosity of Arthur and Janet Holzheimer.
The two-month residence, taken at any time between July 2008 and June 2009, will be at the UW Institute for Research in the Humanities, which will provide office space and will provide other facilities and support given to scholars at the Institute. Participation in the scholarly community of the Institute is strongly encouraged. The stipend is $3,500 per month for two months. The selection of the fellow will be made on the recommendation of the editors of Volumes Four and Six and of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research in the Humanities. 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 campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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. For more information, consult http://www.wisc. edu/irh/.
The University of Wisconsin 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 the
University of Wisconsin-Madison' s primary collection of works on geography and cartography. This library is in Science Hall, the location of the Geography Department and the Robinson Map Library. For more information, consult http://www.library. wisc.edu/ libraries/ .
The History of Cartography Project, also housed in Science Hall, maintains an archive of articles and illustrations used in previous volumes, and its staff is available for consultation. Applicants for the David Woodward Memorial Fellowship, who should hold a Ph.D. or equivalent, should submit an application form and a proposal not exceeding four double spaced pages explaining what they intend to study during the two-month residence and what the end product is likely to be. A simple application form and further information about the Fellowship and Institute is available on request from:
Loretta Freiling
Institute for Research in the Humanities
Bradley Memorial, 1225 Linden Drive
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-262-3855
Fax: 608-265-4173
Email: freiling@wisc. edu
The deadline for completed applications for the 2008-2009 Fellowship is 14 March 2008. Applications will be reviewed late winter/spring 2008.
Visit the website at http://www.geograph y.wisc.edu/ histcart/ #fellow
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