Allmaps Research Fellowships

Are you a researcher, scholar, cartographer, or essayist with interests at the intersection of digital humanities and public geography? Would your work benefit from creative visualization of georeferenced maps? Do you have an idea for a project or publication? If so, consider inquiring about our Allmaps Research Fellowships.

Application instructions

LMEC and AGSL are actively seeking applicants to our Allmaps Research Fellowship program. We’re looking for compelling stories that not only bridge the divide between academic scholarship and public education, but use georeferenced maps to bring those stories to life.

The Fellowship consists of a $1,200 honorarium to support research and development time. LMEC and AGSL staff will also provide research and technical support through all stages of the digital publication process. Any topic is eligible for an Allmaps Research Fellowship, provided that the proposed project uses Allmaps, but you must have a U.S. bank account in order to receive the stipend. If you don't have a U.S. bank account but are interested in applying, please contact us.

Fellows are expected to create a digital publication. Digital publications produced through the Allmaps Research Fellowship program will be published and hosted by LMEC on one or more of its digital portals, though projects will be licensed on a Creative Commons license and further publication, in digital or print formats, is not precluded by receipt of an award. Projects may be conducted remotely, and award recipients are not required to plan any in-person project time in Boston.

We hope to see applicants engage with Allmaps in a variety of ways, from indivdiual researchers to big research teams (though the fellowship honorarium remains the same, regardless of the number of authors involved). By way of example, we’d be excited to see proposals on the following topics:

  1. Reflections and outcomes from georeferencing with Allmaps in a high school or university setting
  2. Interpretive textual essays of 1,200-2,000 words using Allmaps as a research and visualization method
  3. Digital cartographic projects that use one of Allmaps plugins for web mapping libraries
  4. Experiments with automatic georeferencing of standardized atlases or “machines reading maps” using the Allmaps software ecosystem
  5. And much more… this is by no means an exhaustive list of the possibilities!

Questions can be directed to Ian Spangler at and Marcy Bidney at .

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Digital Publications

Read work from Allmaps Research Fellows below: