Matthew Edney

  • Professor • Geography
  • Osher Professor in the History of Cartography

Matthew Edney has a rather complex existence at USM. He is a professor of geography and (since 2007) the Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, with responsibility for courses in map history (below). He is also “faculty scholar” in the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Since 2005 he has directed the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Education & Training

  • B.Sc. (hons.), Geography, University College London (University of London) 1983
  • M.S., Cartography, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1985
  • Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1990

Representative Publications

Edney, Matthew H., and Mary S. Pedley, eds. Cartography in the European Enlightenment. Volume 4 of The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. [in press] * this work includes multiple personal contributions on many aspects of eighteenth-century mapping.

Edney, Matthew H. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. [in press]

Edney, Matthew H. “‘Analemmas’ on Globes.” Globe Studies: The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, nos. 64/65 (2018): 37–58. Simultaneously published as “»Analemmata« auf Globen,” trans. Andreas Christoph, Der Globusfreund, nos. 64/65 (2018): 31–53.

Edney, Matthew H. “Map History: Discourse and Process.” In The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, edited by Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic, 68–79. London: Routledge, 2017.

Edney, Matthew H. "Mapping, Survey and Science.” In The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, edited by Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic, 145–58. London: Routledge, 2017.

Edney, Matthew H. “The Rise of Systematic, Territorial Surveys.” In The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, edited by Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic, 159–72. London: Routledge, 2017.

Edney, Matthew H. “References to the Fore! Local Boosters, Historians, and Engineers Map Antebellum Portland, Maine.” Online essay, published 1 July 2017. www.oshermaps.org/special-map-exhibits/references-to-the-fore.