State University of New York at Binghamton

In addition, I gave guest lectures in several other geography courses, as well as in courses in Anthropology, History (graduate), and Information Theory (graduate).

I have mentored the following undergraduate students:

Isaac Beirne, “A Refuge for my Dreams: French Imperial Identity as Informed by the Egyptian Geographic History in the Description de l’Égypte,” for the “Thinking Matters” student conference, 22-23 April 2004.

Binghamton University

I served as the principal advisor for ten graduate students, listed here together with their initial employment after graduation: Bridget Ryan (MA 1995), Transportation and Market Analyst, Lanes Cash-and-Carry, Johnson City, NY; Mark Hanna (MA 1995), GIS Specialist, Hawk Engineering, Binghamton, NY; Michael Kazmierczak (MA 1995), GeoDemographics, Johnson City, NY; Dylan McTigue (MA 1995), Hawk Engineering, Binghamton, NY; Gary Schwartz (MA 1994), Process Engineer, Claritas, Ithaca, NY; Hans S. Bader (MA 1993), GIS Specialist, Hawk Engineering, Binghamton, NY; Ben Jobes (MA 1993), Urban Planner, City Planning Department, Binghamton, NY; Dennis Anthony (MA 1992), Associate Planner and GIS Manager, City Planning Department, York, Penn.; Bernadette Coll (MA 1992), GIS Specialist, Advanced Geoservices Corp., Chadds Ford, Penn.; Michael Marino (MA 1992), GIS Specialist, GeoSystems Division, Donnelly & Co., Lancaster, Penn.

Deena Parmalee. Third Field for Comprehensive Examinations: The History of Cartography. Ph.D. program. History. University of New Hampshire. July 2004.

Gordon P. Bleach. “Visions of Access: Africa Bound and Staged, 1880-1940.” Ph.D. dissertation. Art History. Binghamton University. Spring 2000.

Graham David Dudley, “Political Aspects of Geographical Information Technologies with Examples from Imperial and Post-Independence India.” Ph.D. dissertation. Geography. University of Waterloo, Ontario. Summer 1998. (External examiner)

Margaret Pearce. “Native and Colonial Mapping in Western Connecticut Land Records.” Ph.D. dissertation. Geography. Clark University. Spring 1998.

Lisa Blansett, “Cartographies: Cultural Space and Cartographic Signs in British Fiction, 1700-1814.” Ph.D. dissertation. English Literature. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Summer 1995.

Christopher Hays. “Adena Mortuary Ritual and Settlement in the Upper Scioto Valley, Ohio.” Ph.D. dissertation. Anthropology. Binghamton University. Fall 1994. (External reader)

Julia R. Varady. “The Place Louis XV in Paris: Spatial Organization in Eighteenth-Century France.” BA honors thesis. Art History. Binghamton University. 1993. This thesis won for Ms. Varady the Claudio L. Bernardo Award for Excellence in the Humanities.

Susan C. Prezzano. “Longhouse, Village, and Palisade: Community Patterns at the Iroquois Southern Door.” Ph.D. dissertation. Anthropology. Binghamton University. Spring 1992. (External reader)

Service

University Service

University of Southern Maine

University of Maine System

Geography Consulting Group to the Maine Geographic Alliance. Member, Fall 1995 to date.

University of Southern Maine

Faculty Senate:

Senator. 2000-2002.

Library Committee. 1997 to 2002.

University Self-Accreditation Committee. Library Sub-Committee. Spring 2000.

University Librarian Search. Screening Committee. 1996-97; 2002-03.

Department of History, Chair Election. Supervisor/“Guerilla”. March 2004.

Department of American and New England Studies

Departmental Personnel Committee. Fall 1995 to date.

Department of Geography/Anthropology

Departmental representative to the college Curriculum Review Committee. 2000-01; 2002-04 (part-time in Fall 2002).

USM Geography/Maine Geographic Alliance Joint Programming Committee. 2000 to date.

Departmental Search Committee. 1995-96, 1998-99, 2003-2004.

Chair, personnel committee for Lydia Savage, 1999-2001.

Chair, personnel committee for Nathan Hamilton, Spring 2004.

Departmental Scribe. Fall 1999, 2003-2004.

I served in various capacities at Binghamton University. My principal task was as the Geography Department’s undergraduate director and advisor (Dec 1990 to May 1995). At the level of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, I was the departmental representative on the college’s council, the primary curriculum body (Spring 1991 to Fall 1994); I also served on the Academic Awards Committee (Fall 1991 to Spring 1993) and Academic Standards Committee (Fall 1994 to Spring 1995). I was a member of the program committee for Asian and Asian-American Studies (Fall 1993 to Spring 1995) and I was departmental representative to the faculty senate for one semester (Spring 1993). Finally, I served as a fellow of Hinman College, one of the residential communities (April 1992 to May 1995).

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 Director, President (unpaid). October 2004 to date.

Imago Mundi, Ltd. (A not-for-profit company [UK] that publishes Imago Mundi and sponsors the international conferences on the history of cartography.) Director (unpaid). January 2003 to date.

Offices Held for Journals

Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association. 2004 to date.

MapForum. Member, Honorary Editorial Board. 2004 to date.

Historical Geography. Member, Editorial Board. Fall 1997 to August 2004.

Cartographica. Contributing editor. Summer 1992 to Summer 2003.

“Maps.” Joint exhibition organized by the Field Museum and the Newberry Library, Chicago. On display 2 November 2007 to 27 January 2008 at the Field Museum, Chicago, and March to June 2008 at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Member, advisory board. April 2005 to November 2007.

Maine Memory Network. I participated in several meetings between Fall 1999 and Fall 2001 for this on-line resource of Maine history and culture developed by the Maine Historical Society, the Maine State Museum, and the Maine State Archives. This web-site was formally launched in December 2001.

Special expert on cartographic evidence for the state of Maine, in New Hampshire v. Maine. June 2000 to May 2001. (This case was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court before any evidentiary hearings were convened.)

University of Chicago Press

Columbia University Press

Duke University Press

Routledge

Syracuse University Press

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Cartographica

Cartographic Perspectives

Ecumene

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Historical Geography

Imago Mundi

Progress in Human Geography

Oxford University Press, New York.

National Science Foundation (Geography and Regional Science; Science and Technology Studies).

National Endowment for the Humanities.

Association of American Geographers, Cartography Specialty Group. Masters Thesis Research Grant.

City University of New York. PSC-CUNY Research Award, Earth and Environmental Sciences Panel.

Travel awards for the International Conferences on the History of Cartography. Awarded by the American Friends of the J. B. Harley Fellowships, Inc. 1999; 2001; 2003; 2005.

The Nebenzahl Prize for Dissertations in the History of Cartography. Awarded by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library, Chicago. Series 1 (January 1999); Series 2 (January 2001). (The prize was discontinued after the second series.)

Walter W. Ristow Prize for achievement in cartographic history and map librarianship. Awarded annually by the Washington Map Society. Summer 2002.

Associate Director (ex officio). October 1995 to date.

Invited participant in the Social Studies component of “Preparing our Students for Post Secondary Learning Opportunities.” South Portland High School, South Portland. 20 January 2004.

“Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in the Maps of Colonial New England.” Teacher Institute on “Progress and Preservation: Historical Perspectives on the American Environment,” organized by Donna Cassidy for the Maine Humanities Council. American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine, Portland. 3 October 2003.

Contributor. “Notes and Queries.” The Guardian (22 Aug 2002); reprinted in The Guardian Weekly (12-18 September 2002).

“The Osher Map Library and the International Conference on the History of Cartography, 2003.” Board of Trustees, University of Maine System. University of Southern Maine. Portland, Maine. 19 May 2002.

“The Cartographic Creation of New England, 1600-1800.” Stone House Community Seminar. Freeport, Maine. 22 January 2000.

“What is ‘New England’? Creating and Recreating the Colonial Region in Maps.” Nantucket Historical Association. Nantucket, Massachusetts. 30 September 1999.

[Yolanda Theunissen and mhe] “Rare Map Collections at the University of Southern Maine.” The 1999 Maine Libraries Conference (Maine Association of School Libraries; Maine Library Association). Orono, Maine. 17 May 1999.

“Creating American Territory: Maps and American Studies.” Maine Humanities Council symposium for American Studies in the High School Curriculum. University of Southern Maine. 6 November 1998.

“The Cartographic Creation of New England.” Maine Maritime Museum. Bath, Maine. 18 November 1997.

“The Relations between Map-Making and Economic Integration: Northern Maine.” Moosehead Marine Museum, Greenville, Maine. 29 August 1997.

Guest narrator re eighteenth-century charting of the Maine coast. Smithsonian Institution Seminar on “Maritime Maine.” 20 September 1996.

Guest narrator re Samuel de Champlain, navigation, and maps. Bath to Damariscove Island Tour. Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. 12 August 1996.

“Charting Casco Bay, Maine, and New England.” Aucocisco: A Celebration of Maine’s Casco Bay Region. Portland. 17 March 1996.

Interviewee re eighteenth-century land survey plan of Standish, Me. Portland Press Herald, 9 May 2004, 1B and 8B.

Gallery Tour of “Mapping the Republic” for the Cumberland Club, Portland. 13 January 2004.

Interviewee re 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography and the associated Map Day: Maine Sunday Telegram, 15 June 2003, 1E and 8E; Maine Public Radio, “Morning Edition,” 16 June 2003; Maine Public Radio, “Maine Things Considered,” 18 June 2003; wgme-tv (Channel 13), 5:30 News, 19 June 2003; Portland Press Herald, 20 June 2003, 2B.

Interviewee. “Maps with no Direction: How to Get from Osher to the PMA,” by Margaret Knowles, The Portland Phoenix (23 May 2003): 16.

Interviewee. “What’s in a Map?” by Marcy Barack, Port City Life (May/June 2003): 40-43 and 60-61.

Interviewee. Maine Times. 1 February 2001.

“Mapping the Environment.” Maine Audubon Society. 9 November 2000.

Interviewee for “The Search for Atlantis,” produced by Atlantic Productions (Chevalier) Ltd., for A&E (USA) and Channel 5 (UK), 11 April 2000 (first aired 10 September 2000 [A&E] and 29 January 2001 [Channel 5]).

Interviewee re “Charting Neptune’s Realm”: usm-tv, 10 April 2000 (first aired Summer 2000).

Interviewee re “Percy Map”: Boston Globe, 16 April 1998, 1B and 4B.

Interviewee re “Mitchell Map”: Boston Globe, 21 April 1997, 3B; Portland Press Herald, 21 April 1997, 1A and 1B.

“The Cartographic Creation of New England.” Narragansett Chapter (York and Cumberland Counties), Maine Society of Land Surveyors. 16 April 1997.

“The Discoveries of New England.” Yarmouth Historical Society. 16 November 1996.

Interviewee re “Columbus Letter”: Boston Herald, 11 October 1996, 46-47; Maine Public Radio, “Maine Things Considered,” 11 October 1996; Portland Press Herald, 12 October 1996, 1B-4B; [MHE and David Davis] usm-tv, 30 December 1996 through 5 January 1997.

“Charting Casco Bay, Maine, and New England.” Maine Chapter, Appalachian Mountain Group. 15 March 1996.

Interviewee. Maine in Maps. Maine Public Television. 24 January 1996.

Maine State Geography Bee

Judge. 4 April 1997; 3 April 1998.