Congratulations to Paul Mapp. He has recently received two postdoctoral
fellowships: the Barbara W. Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship for study at
the Huntington Library and a Postdoctoral Fellowship for study at the
John Carter Brown Library. Professor Mapp has been working at the
Huntington Library since July and will be there through April; in May
he will begin working at the John Carter Brown Library, where he will
be in residence for the duration of the year. He is using the
fellowship time to research and write European Geographic Ignorance
and North American Imperial Rivalry: The Role of the Uncharted American
West in International Affairs, 1713-1763. Both the Huntington and
John Carter Brown provide access to superb collections of early modern
documents pertinent to the issues of geographic thought and imperial
policy that he is studying.
