BIO

Susan Schulten teaches U.S. history at the University of Denver, and is the author of The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2001). She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

The Fellowship will support her current research on the relationship between mapping and the advent of the nation. The project—tentatively titled A Nation in Time and Space—is under contract with the University of Chicago Press, and will be accompanied by a website showcasing some of the new forms of cartography that flourished in nineteenth-century America.

Some of her recent publications include: “The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics,” Civil War History (March 2010); “Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and John Dewey,” University of Denver Law Review, 86(2009); and “Get Lost: on the intersection of intellectual and environmental history,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 5, no. 1 (2008).

Professor Schulten also actively works to widen the audience for history. In 2007 she was a member of the advisory board of the Maps exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago, and contributed a chapter to the companion volume, Maps: Finding Our Place in History (University of Chicago Press, 2007). She is a member of the advisory board of volume six of the History of Cartography series, as well as the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in Colorado.

Professor Schulten teaches a range of courses in U.S. history, including intellectual and cultural history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the Cold War, American politics and culture, war and the presidency, and the methods and philosophy of history.

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