Mirela Altic

Dr. Mirela Altic is a Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences and Full Professor with tenure at Department of History, University of Zagreb. She specializes in social history of maps, cross-cultural knowledge exchange and early modern encounter. She occasionally teaches at foreign universities. Dr. Altic is author of 20, over 100 original scientific papers and contributor to The History of Cartography Project (University of Wisconsin/Madison, University Chicago Press). For the academic year 2013–2014 she was awarded the David Woodward Memorial Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr Altic was invited speaker in David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University, Newbery Library Chicago, American Geographical Society and Ricci Institute of University of San Francisco. She is the leading scientist in the field of history of cartography and one of the pioneers of this filed in her country. She established first courses on the history of cartography at Zagreb University and contributed to the cartographic education of generations of students of history. She is specially devoted to development of the new methodologies and approaches to historical maps in historical sciences. Recently Dr. Altic is engaged in research of Jesuit cartography of Americas and to missionary contribution to the history of early encounter and exploration. Her book Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of the Americas is scheduled to be published by University of Chicago Press in May 2022.
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