The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps
A NEH Summer Seminar for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers
16 July—3 August 2007
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography invites school teachers nationwide to apply for its 2007 summer seminar, Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps. This 3-week seminar led by James Akerman (The Newberry Library) and Gerald Danzer (Emeritus, The University of Illinois at Chicago) is designed to develop cartographic literacy and encourage effective map use in the classroom. A program of seminars based on recent scholarship in the history of cartography and guided individual research will allow teachers to explore the relevancy of geography and historic maps to their own interests and curricular needs. Workshops will serve as forums for refining and applying the skills necessary to read maps as products of science, artistic creations, rhetorical tools, storytellers, and expressions of power; and as representations of worldviews and local landscapes.
Applications are encouraged from teachers of a broad range of courses and grade levels. Full-time K-12 educators (teachers, librarians, administrators) working in public, private, and religiously-affiliated schools in the United States or its territorial possessions are eligible; see the application guidelines for complete eligibility criteria.
Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $2,400 to help defray travel and housing expenses. Successful applicants may elect to receive CPDU credit for participation in this seminar.
Application Instructions
Completed applications must be postmarked no later than Thursday, 1 March 2007. Persons who do not submit a complete application by this deadline will NOT be considered for a seat in the seminar. Successful applicants will be notified of their selection on 2 April 2007. Applicants will be notified when their applications and recommendations are received; however, no other information regarding their status will be made available prior to 2 April.
Applicants are asked to complete the APPLICATION COVER SHEET online at the NEH's website. Please mail hard copies of all other required materials (three copies each of the cover sheet, a résumé, and an application essay, along with two letters of recommendation) to the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center.
Before you apply, we encourage you to read a complete SEMINAR DESCRIPTION (Letter from the Co-Directors), a tentative SYLLABUS, and the NEH's APPLICATION GUIDELINES (all require Adobe Reader to open). Applicants are responsible for reading the seminar description and the application guidelines prior to submitting an application.
To request that the seminar description and application guidelines and materials be sent to you, contact:
Chris Dingwall
The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center
The Newberry Library
60 W Walton St Chicago, IL 60610
e-mail: dingwallc@newberry.org
phone: 312–255–3659
Please note: If you are unable to download materials from this Web site, you most likely will not be able to open them as e-mail attachments because the attachments that will be sent to you will be the same files that are posted here.
