Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography

Imago Mundi invites proposals for a thematic issue on "Maps and the Imagination" edited by Editorial Board member Martin Brückner. See the Call for Papers for details, at:https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/25im-spec-issuecfp-final12-9-2025.pdf

Please send a brief CV (two pages max) and a 500-word proposal (list of maps encouraged) to Dr. Brückner ([email protected]) by March 15, 2026. Accepted papers of 6,000-8,000 words will be due by February 1, 2027.

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Mappy 2026, all. Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography 77.2 was published online as an end-of-year present in December 2025. Paper copies will follow soon to subscribers.

Of note for many, this issue is the sunset of the Chronicle section, long stewarded by the indefatigable Tony Campbell. We thank Tony and are pleased to confirm that news of events and exhibitions will continue.

Researchers Hayley Cotter, Luis Robles Macías, and Yannan Ding draw our attention --respectively-- to the maps in a seventeenth-century English legal text, flags as symbols useful for dating portolan charts, and an informative sevententeenth-century manuscript map of Vietnam in France's national archives.

A Forum, Where Does Map History Go Now?, digs into themes raised in September 2024's ISHMap-Imago Mundi-History of Cartography Project symposium. Carla Lois, Yannan Ding, Mirela Altic, André Reyes Novaes, Philip Jagessar and Martin Davis offer thoughtful looks back on recent developments and questions to consider for the future. As always, we welcome your responses.

Check out the ToC for info on :
-- Book reviews
-- An abstract of Grégoire Binois' thesis on military maps in eighteenth-century France
-- Updates from ISHMap and the ICHC Prague 2026 teams
& more

Subscribers will find articles and authors may submit manuscripts at: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rimu20

Issue 77.1 is now available! The journal’s first thematic issue, its articles and thesis abstract focus on the dynamic field of Indigenous maps and mapping.

This issue also includes the first in a new occasional series, A Life in Maps, an open-format section which will highlight the diversity of ways in which people work with maps. This first entry is a personal reflection from Christine Luckasavitch (Algonquin Anishinaabekwe and mixed settler ancestry) on her encounters with various maps and thoughts on how mapping can offer alternative visions, when they are made by and with Indigenous Peoples, centring Indigenous knowledges, priorities, and spaces.

Luckasavitch’s essay, and the article by Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius, ‘Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World’ are both free to download until the end of October. Don’t miss them!

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The Trustees of Imago Mundi CIO are pleased to announce that the eleventh Imago Mundi Prize has been awarded to Patrick Ellis for his article ‘“Maps to the Homes of the Stars”: California, Celebrity, and Cartography in the Twentieth Century’. Imago Mundi Vol. 76, Part 2: 167–189.

The Imago Mundi Prize is awarded every two years for the article in the Journal judged ‘to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline’. This award covers volumes 75 (2023) and 76 (2024). Only full-length articles are eligible for the prize. The prize is judged by three Trustees of Imago Mundi CIO. The judges provided the following commendation of Professor Ellis's article, which can be accessed free of charge at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/76/2:

This essay examines the maps showing the location of the residences of film stars in Los Angeles produced for tourists from the early to late twentieth century. Not only does it display careful research in public and private collections in tracking down examples of these ephemeral productions, and in analysing their design concepts, but it also integrates the study of these artefacts into the wider discipline of social history, describing their vendors, distribution networks, and their place in the culture of tourism. As such this essay opens up a new, and unexpected, field in the history of popular cartography, while engaging with wider cultural-historical concerns. It is to be highly commended for so successfully merging these fields of study and bringing together a variety of historical disciplines.

The Imago Mundi Prize of $2000 is generously sponsored by the late Kenneth Nebenzahl and Mrs Jossy Nebenzahl.

Alfred Hiatt, Secretary
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ISHMap members are in for a treat next Monday - a one-day symposium co-organized with Imago Mundi and Matthew Edney (History of Cartography project) to ask what's next for the field as HoC publishes its last volume in a world of map history scholars who over the last 40 years have become more connected in an increasingly digital age.

It's a hybrid event - speakers mostly convening at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London, and members attending virtually.

Registration (and membership) are open trhough August 31.

Check out the announcement on H-Maps to learn more.

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Interested in academic journal publishing? Join the editorial team of Imago Mundi. We are recruiting a 2nd bibliographer to keep the map history community informed about new and exciting publications from around the world. Please help us spread the word. Details below!

Journal Editorial Team Position: Imago Mundi bibliographer

Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography is recruiting a second individual who, along with Mylynka Kilgore Cardona (Texas A&M-Commerce) will prepare the bibliography and indexes which are a well-respected and core section in the journal. The indexed bibliography is the most comprehensive list of publications in the history of cartography and is used widely by researchers and collections managers.

The bibliography is global in scope, with entries in many languages. The position would be well suited to a librarian or individual with research experience in the history of cartography, although it is open to all. Applicants with competencies in non-European languages, including Chinese, are especially welcome. The position comes with an annual honorarium of £250.

The journal is published by Taylor & Francis twice annually, in January and July, in paper and online editions, with contributions to the bibliography in each issue. The editorial team works remotely and communicates primarily via email and occasional videoconference conversations.

The successful candidate would gather, format, and index the newest publications, working closely with Mylynka and the journal’s national representatives, who provide many entries from around the world. The bibliographers submit a list of new materials to the editors twice a year and review proofs of each bibliography.

Want to apply? Applicants should send a brief (up to 5pp) cv and an email describing their interest and experience to [email protected]. Questions can also be directed to that address.

We welcome expressions of interest on a rolling basis, and would like to fill the position by mid-September 2024. Please share this announcement to individuals or networks who might find it of interest.

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Jordana Dym and Katherine Parker, editors
Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography
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Looking for some thoughtful reading for summer? Two items from the new issue of Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography are freely available through mid-September. First, a timely article: Jason Hansen's '‘Russia Wants War!’: Cartographic Productions of Victimhood from Napoleon III to Ukraine.' Second, Fernando Galicia's book review of 'Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America,' edited by Bjørn Sletto, Joseph Bryan, Alfredo Wagner, and Charles Hale (2020). Find both (as well as the rest of the journal's materials) at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/76/1.

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Thanks to wonderful colleagues and friends at for joining us to think about the future of journal publishing — in general and in map history as well. We appreciated your emphasis on access, collaboration and mentorship and look forward to thinking through the rich range of ideas after the conference. Don’t hesitate to write or take a few minutes with the survey. HTTPS://tinyurl.Com/ImagoMundiICHC.

Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography Volume 76, Issue 1 is ready for your perusal! Articles by David Onnekink, Joe Weber and Jason Hansen, a forum on the transformative contributions of map exhibitions, book reviews, the bibliography, the annual chronicle, and more are available online and will soon reach mailboxes and shelves on paper. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/current. Plus check out the announcement for ICHC 2026!

The Editors of Imago Mundi look forward to connecting with the map history community at the International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) in Lyon on July 1-5, 2024 We invite those in attendance to join us on Wednesday, July 3, at an afternoon workshop session to discuss the future of this journal, founded in 1935, as it approaches its second century as a supporter and promoter of map history.

Want to get an early start? As we prepare, we invite the community's thoughts and ideas on the journal as-is in a little survey (https://forms.gle/Gewt4gRX7EAQ5ym7A).

At the workshop, we will collectively consider: What should a flagship journal strive for as it looks towards a second century? What do you expect from a history of cartography journal? What is needed to promote innovative and forward-looking scholarship? How might the journal broaden access, encourage inclusion and build community?

We promise to (try to) make the conversation lively, engaging and productive.

A bientôt!
Contact Information

Jordana Dym
Katherine Parker
Contact Email
[email protected]
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https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rimu20

Imago Mundi Imago Mundi publishes articles, with full illustrations, on the history of cartography, geography, maps and mapmaking.

The Editors of Imago Mundi look forward to connecting with the map history community at the International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) in Lyon on July 1-5, 2024 We invite those in attendance to join us on Wednesday, July 3, at an afternoon workshop session to discuss the future of this journal, founded in 1935, as it approaches its second century as a supporter and promoter of map history. See the ICHC program (https://ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/programme) for details

Want to get an early start? As we prepare, we invite the community's thoughts and ideas on the journal as-is in a little survey (https://forms.gle/Gewt4gRX7EAQ5ym7A).

At the workshop, we will collectively consider: What should a flagship journal strive for as it looks towards a second century? What do you expect from a history of cartography journal? What is needed to promote innovative and forward-looking scholarship? How might the journal broaden access, encourage inclusion and build community?

We promise to (try to) make the conversation lively, engaging and productive.

Stop by the Imago Mundi table or look for us and members of our Editorial Board in sessions, at map exhibits, and during the breaks, as we join the streams of map historians converging in Lyon next week.

A bientôt!

Confluence is in the air! At the ICHC next week, the editors look forward to great papers and conversations. Look for them in sessions, the map fair and exhibits, at a Wednesday workshop, and the Imago Mundi display, where there will be complementary bookmarks! Lyon here we come!
https://ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/