Cartographic Conversation is a collection of essays contributed by JCB Fellows in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Library's Fellowship Program. Read the thirteen essays here.

Much of the cartographic scholarship by JCB fellows has focused on English, Spanish, French and Portuguese empires in the Americas, but an intrepid few have also considered everything from the mapping of Africa to German, Dutch, and Italian cartographies to the meaning of ships on maps. Fellows Jack Crowley, Lina del Castillo, Jordana Dym, Matthew Edney, Carla Lois, Joyce Lorimer, W. George Lovell, Paul Mapp, Karl Offen, Heidi Scott, Richard Unger, and Chet Van Duzer offer initial contributions to the “Cartographic Conversation” that took place at the conference celebr