Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Bertie Mandelblatt's work involves building the John Carter Brown Library’s map and print collections; curating exhibitions and developing other kinds of programming; working with JCB Fellows, other researchers and the wider public; teaching from JCB collections; and engaging in outreach and scholarship based on the map and print collections, and the JCB collections more broadly.  She is a historical geographer (PhD, University of London) and a librarian (MLIS, McGill University) with research expertise in historical cartography, the French Americas and the early modern Caribbean. She has published in a number of anthologies and journals (History Workshop Journal; Atlantic Studies; Histoire, Économie, Société; French History; History of European Ideas; and most recently (2021) Early American Studies). Her research addresses a number of intersecting questions in those broad fields: cartography as an imperial practice; the historical geography of the colonial Americas; the geographies of plantation slavery; colonial trade, commodities, agriculture; and early modern subsistence and consumption.