Grad Student Amanda Murphyao was awarded a McColl Research Fellowship grant (in the amount of $5,000) to research maps of Nunavut. This will be a case study in her dissertation. She will be in residence at the American Geographical Society Library in Milwaukee April to May 2019.
Using the American Geographical Society collection, she will complete the final case study of her dissertation on maps of the Arctic and Nunavut (Canada), entitled From ‘Terra Incognita Nova’ to What the heck is up there? Mis/representations of Nunavut in Cartography, Cartouches, and Cartoons. Her case study, about visualizations of the Arctic, traces the evolution of the territory from a sixteenth century “Terra Incognita” (“Unknown Land”) on maps to the modern-day Inuit Nunangat, which includes parts of two Canadian provinces and two Canadian territories.
Murphao plans to present to the Wisconsin Map Society and a class at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee during that time.
After taking off three years, she has returned to Carleton to finish mher PhD in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies.
More details of the fellowship can be found by clicking here.
Thursday, January 24, 2019 in Awards, News
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