The Hermon Dunlop Smith Center for the History of Cartography
Mapping and Art in the Americas
A NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty
at the Newberry Library
12 July - 13 August 2010
About the Institute Application Instructions Preliminary Syllabus Guest Faculty Chicago Resources
The Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is now accepting applications for its 2010 NEH summer institute, "Mapping and Art in the Americas." The five-week institute led by James Akerman (a geographer and Director of the Smith Center) and Diane Dillon (an art historian and the Newberry's Assistant Director of Research and Education) will trace the interplay between American art and mapping from the transatlantic encounter into the 21st century. Guest faculty include specialists in art, art history, cartography, geography, philosophy, American history, map librarianship, and literary studies. The institute program of lectures, workshops, and discussions will encourage 25 participants to cross disciplinary boundaries and move beyond regional and chronological specialties to explore the relationship between art and mapping in the Americas. Participants will also pursue their own research projects and explore unfamiliar primary materials, including the Newberry's rich holdings of cartography, geography, art, history, literature, and the history of printing from the 15th to the 21st centuries.
Applications are encouraged from college and university faculty teaching a broad range of courses and involved in a diversity of research topics. Qualified independent scholars and scholars engaged in museum work are also eligible to apply. A limited number of spaces are also available for full-time graduate students in the humanities.
Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $3900 to help defray travel and housing expenses.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Fletcher, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center Program Assistant, at (312) 255-3659 or blues@newberry.org, or download a PDF of the informational flyer.
Completed applications must be postmarked no later than Tuesday, 2 March 2010. Individuals who do not submit a complete application by this deadline will NOT be considered for a seat in the institute. Successful applicants will be notified of their selection on 1 April 2010. Applicants will be notified when their applications and recommendations are received; however, no other information regarding their status will be made available prior to 1 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 detailed résumé or brief biography, an application essay and two letters of recommendation) to the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center.
Before you apply, please read the complete INSTITUTE DESCRIPTION (Letter from the institute's Co-Directors, also available as a PDF), the preliminary SYLLABUS below, and the NEH's APPLICATION GUIDELINES (also available as a PDF). All PDFs 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 Stephanie Fletcher at blues@newberry.org or (312) 255-3659.
Click here to view the preliminary "Mapping and Art in the Americas" syllabus. It is also available to download as a PDF.
Co-Directors:
Guest Faculty:
Chicago Resources will be posted soon.