Dr. Katherine Parker FRGS, Research Officer
Dr. Katherine Parker (FRGS) earned a BA (Hons.) in History and International Studies at Oregon State University, University Honors College (2006). She studied at the University of Pittsburgh for her MA (2012) and PhD in History (2016), where she specialized in the creation of Pacific geographic knowledge in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her area of expertise is in the early modern European history of cartography.
Upon graduation, she was awarded a Hakluyt Society Research Fellowship. She has also held fellowships from the American Bibliographical Society, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Mellon Foundation. She was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is currently the Administrative Editor for the Hakluyt Society, which specializes in the publication of primary sources for the history of global exploration.
She joined Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps in autumn 2016 as the Research Officer.
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