Chet A. Van Duzer

Chet Van Duzer (born 1966) is an American historian of cartography.

Life

He was born in 1966, and grew up in Northern California.

He graduated from UC Berkeley.

He is a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester.

Career

From 2011 to 2012, he was a scholar-in-residence at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

He has also received a Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550 Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515 : Transcription and Study Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography, With an Edition and Translation of G. C. Munz’s ‘Exercitatio academica de insulis natantibus’ (1711) Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 & 1516 World Maps Christopher Columbus: Book of Privileges: 1502 The Claiming of a New World