News and Notes
August 27, 2008
Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century Art of the Frontier
Mary Peterson Zundo, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, was awarded a one-month PACHS Dissertation Research Fellowship for academic 2007-2008. Her dissertation examines the ways in which the scientific classification of the Trans-Mississippi West and the rhetoric of westward travel shaped how many American artists and their audiences understood—visually and conceptually—their nation in terms of mapping the land for empire. During spring 2008 she explored collections at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the American Philosophical Society, examining maps, texts, and images produced by American frontiersman, expedition leaders, and government topographers in the 19th century. Here is a report of her work.
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