The Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine extends congratulations to independent cartographer, Margaret Wickens Pearce, who was recently named as one of 2023’s recipients of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship under the Geography and Environmental Studies category. Pearce has worked extensively with the Canadian-American Center on cartographic projects producing maps such as They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616 and Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.��

The Guggenheim Foundation grants fellowships to “mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.” The foundation receives roughly 3,000 applications each year, and only awards up to 175 fellowships.

“The fellowship will support my project about Mississippi River flooding in the context of an Indigenized river,” says Pearce. The project will follow her current work on a new map project in collaboration with the Canadian-American Center, which investigates climate change and its impact on northern Indigenous communities. To see some of Pearce’s recent projects, click here.��

The Canadian-American Center continues to celebrate Pearce’s successes and is proud to count her among its colleagues. To learn more about the fellowship, and to see a full list of the other awardees, please visit the Guggenheim Foundation website .

Canadian-American Center Affiliate, Dr. Jonathan Rubin, Professor of Economics, and director of the MCS Policy Center at the University of Maine, recently spoke with Eric Campbell, host of Ottawa’s Smart Prosperity the Podcast to discuss gas prices and electric vehicles in the Canadian economy.

To hear the full podcast, visit Smart Prosperity Institute’s podcast webpage .

Our very own cartographer Margaret Pearce was interviewed about the process and lessons of collecting Indigenous place name data for the “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.”

to read the feature article on Medium!

Recently published “The Nature of Canada,” edited by Colin M. Coates and Graeme Wynn, features a chapter written by Canadian-American Center Director Stephen J. Hornsby.

The Nature of Canada will make you think differently not only about Canada and its past but quite possibly about Canada and its future. Its insights are just what we need as Canada attempts to reconcile the opposing goals of prosperity and preservation.

UBC Press

����review of Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada has been published in the most recent issue of BC Studies.

Click below to download a PDF of the review.

Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and History Micah Pawling for the selection of his article, “,” for the 2018 Canadian Aboriginal History Article prize.

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“The prize will be awarded to the author of a peer-reviewed article or book chapter that is deemed to make an outstanding contribution to the field … articles concerning the history of Indigenous peoples whose territory overlaps with that of the current Canadian state, and/or articles concerning Indigenous peoples whose history involves significant interaction with institutions (state, ecclesiastic, corporate, or other) that are closely associated with what would become Canada. … The award is presented to the author(s) of the best scholarly work in Canadian Indigenous history. The submitted title will build on theoretical, interpretive, and descriptive work within a community of scholars and contribute to the creation and transmission of knowledge. The publication should show potential readability by a wider audience.”

Cartographer Margaret Pearce has recently won the Thematic Map Award for the Smithsonian Institution’s 45th annual CaGIS Map Design Competition for her most recent publication, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.” To learn more about the award, visit the .

The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

This award encourages and rewards American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is both interesting and attractive to lay readers.

Stephen J. Hornsby,��Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps (University of Chicago Press). A visual feast,��Picturing America combines gorgeously reproduced examples of the many types of pictorial maps with erudite yet deft and graceful text. Hornsby defines this previously underappreciated and understudied genre of popular cartography, which he shows to be a mirror of American society from the exuberant, confident 1920s through World War II and the Cold War. He is particularly attentive to the mapmakers, including women, many of them graphic artists, who defied or skirted cartographic convention to create delightful, clever maps that connected immediately with their audience. This book is likely to make an impact beyond the discipline while it contributes to geographers’ and cartographers’ current interest in story maps and emotional, spatial narrative.

Congratulations to Frédéric Rondeau on the publication of his new book: Gilles Dupuis, Karim Larose, Frédéric Rondeau and Robert Schwartzwald, Avec ou sans Parti pris. Le legs d’une revue, Montreal, Éditions Nota bene, collection “ Grise”, 2018, 460 p.

Avec ou sans Parti pris. Le legs d’une revue, focuses on the political journal “Parti pris” published in Quebec during the sixties. Click .