Patricia Seed

Fields of Interest:
History of cartography, comparative history of cartographic design, origins of large-scale coastal mapping (Africa, 15th century), Mercator's Projection, historical applications of GIS to portolan (navigational) charts, GIS especially Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, impact of rising sea levels on West Africa including conservation, food scarcity, comparative history of navigation, Games in World History/World History in Games

Current Projects:

*Oxford Map Companion to World History* (in progress)

*Map Projections: A User's Guide* (ESRI press in progress; user's guide to the mathematics of visualization)

Portuguese Mapping the African Coast

Mapping West Africa & the Discovery of "America"

Latitude and the Origins of Global Navigation

Conservation mapping, global warming, impact of rising sea levels on wildlife refuges and European/Siberian piscatory bird nurseries ESRI MapBook 25th anniversary edition. (Relands, Calif., 2010)

"Impact of Rising Sea levels at Cabo Blanco"

Global Warming: African Coastlines Under Threat

Reconstruction/animation of the oldest, continually operating slave port in Africa (computer assisted archeology using LIDAR scans)



Continuing interests:

"The Four Most Famous Jewish Scientists You have Hever Heard of," The Fare of Islamic and Jewish Science in the Renaissance, History of Trigonometry in the Renaissance.

Other interests:

Post colonial theory (literary studies only) Latin American Subaltern Studies (literary theory), Jewish & Islamic influences on the political construction of Latin America:

Publications:
Books:

*To Love, Honor, and Obey in Mexico: Conflicts over Choice of Marriage Partners, 1574-1821*

*Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World*

*American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches*

*José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance*

Articles:

"Failing to Marvel: Atahualpa's Encounter with the Word"

"Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse,"

"More Postcolonial Discourses"

"Conquest of the Americas" in Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare ed. Geoffrey Parker

Awards:

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) (2007-08) Digital Humanities Fellowship,

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Start-up grant (2007-10)

Fellowship, MIT Science, Technology, & Society Program 2001-02)

Best Book in Atlantic History (American Pentimento),

Best Book in Latin American History (To Love)

2nd best book in Latin American Stuides (To Love)

also several prizes for articles, websites

Teaching:

World History Through Games/Games in World History;

History Cartography;

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