This is a small sampling of my cartographic work. 
For information about specific projects or publications, please contact me at
kate@blackmermaps.com

The Tsushima Strait Region, c. 1930
Published by Hannah Shepherd in

Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History
​​​​​​​University of Hawai‘i Press: 2024

“La Florida in the seventeenth century
Published in Bradley J. Dixon’s

Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
​​​​​​​University of Pennsylvania Press: 2024

“The Chesapeake Bay region, ca. 1607
Published in Bradley J. Dixon’s

Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
​​​​​​​University of Pennsylvania Press: 2024

Map of Trinidad and Tobago’s offshore and deepwater acreage, February 2020
Published in Ryan Cecil Jobson’s

The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
​​​​​​​University of Chicago Press: 2024

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Published in Ryan Cecil Jobson’s

The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
University of Chicago Press: 2024

South America, 1808–1825
Published in Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s

The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It 
Basic Books: 2024

“The Provinces of Bengal and Bihar under East India Company Rule”
Published in Thomas Robert Travers’s

Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765–1793
Cambridge University Press: 2022

State and territorial borders shown as claimed by the United States, ca. 1796​​​​​​​
Published in Michael A. Blaakman’s

Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
University of Pennsylvania Press: 2023

“Tunis and its environs, with Nissim’s sixty-six properties, circa 1873”
Published in Jessica M. Marglin’s
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Princeton University Press: 2022

“Map showing where the anthropologists mentioned in this book did their fieldwork and the higher education institutions where they subsequently taught”
Published in Freddy Foks’s

Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain
University of California Press: 2023

“Creek Lands, the Alabama Black Belt, and Barbour County”
Published in Jefferson Cowie’s
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Basic Books: 2022

“Arles, France”
Published in Linda Seidel’s
Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was
University of Chicago Press: 2023

“Colorado River Borderlands”
Published in Daniel Grant’s
“Whenever we exist on any land, we know it is our country”: Cocopa Mobility and the Colorado River in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, 1887–1936
Western Historical Quarterly, December 2022

“The Civil War, 49–44 BC”
Published in Josiah Osgood’s
Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic
Basic Books: 2022

“Village of Monson, Maine”
Published in Andrew Witmer’s
Here and Everywhere Else: Small-Town Maine and the World
University of Massachusetts Press: 2022

“Regional, national, and global contexts of locality in Monson, Maine”
Published in Andrew Witmer’s
Here and Everywhere Else: Small-Town Maine and the World
University of Massachusetts Press: 2022

“The Freedom Trail and historic downtown Boston”
Published in Seth C. Bruggeman’s
Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston
University of Massachusetts Press: 2022

“Italy, with insets of Seveso and Taranto”
Published in Monica Seger’s
Toxic Matters: Narrating Italy’s Dioxin
University of Virginia Press: 2022

“Zilpha Elaw’s travels in England, 1840–65”
Published in Kimberly Blockett’s
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
West Virginia University Press: 2021

“Maps of Central Wisconsin”
Published in Ryan Lee Cartwright’s
Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity
University of Chicago Press: 2021

“Central Dar es Salaam, circa 1968”
Published in George Roberts’s
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974
Cambridge University Press: 2021

“Cities played on Bobby Riggs Presents Jack Kramer vs. Pancho Gonzales, 1949–1950”
Published in Greg Ruth’s
Tennis: A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals
University of Illinois Press: 2021

“The twenty-nine countries that participated in the Bandung Conference, April 18–24, 1955”
Published in Tao Wang’s
Isolating the Enemy: Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956
Columbia University Press: 2021

“Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1775”
Published in Sara T. Damiano’s
To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities
Johns Hopkins University Press: 2021

“Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1777”
Published in Sara T. Damiano’s
To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities
Johns Hopkins University Press: 2021

“The five schools of Anglo-Hindu Law c. 1868”
Published in Christopher T. Fleming’s
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
Oxford University Press: 2021

“Maritime Underground Railroad Route Map”
Published in Timothy D. Walker’s
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
University of Massachusetts Press: 2021

“Axis countries and axis-occupied territories in Europe, January 1944”
Published in Mary Louise Roberts’s
Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII
University of Chicago Press: 2021

“Borderlands along the Rio Grande, c. 1856”
Published in Alice Baumgartner’s
“The Massacre at Gracias a Dios: Mobility and Violence on the Lower Rio Grande, 1821–1856”  
Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 1, Spring 2021

“Map of northern Eurasia”
Published in Pey-Yi Chu’s
The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
University of Toronto Press: 2021

“Sumgin’s map of vechnaia merzlota (translated and reproduced)”
Published in Pey-Yi Chu’s
The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
University of Toronto Press: 2021

“The United States and Mexico, 1824”
Published in Alice Baumgartner’s
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Basic Books: 2020

“The London medicine trade in 1790”
Published in Zachary Dorner’s
Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
University of Chicago Press: 2020

“Destinations of medicine exports from London, 1697–1780”
Published in Zachary Dorner’s
Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
University of Chicago Press: 2020

“The buildings of Mill Creek Valley before and after demolition”
Published in Walter Johnson’s
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Basic Books: 2020

“Map of South Asia with selected locations mentioned in the text”
Published in Lawrence A. Babb’s
Religion in India, Past and Present
Dunedin Press: 2020

“Yellow fever vaccine laboratories”
Published in Aro Velmet’s
Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World 
Oxford University Press: 2020

“The boundaries of the Congo Free State as defined by bilateral treaties
signed during the Berlin Conference in 1884–1885”
Published in Robert Harms’s
Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Basic Books: 2019

“Palestine Partition [Woodhead] Commission Report partition maps A, B, and C, October 1938”
Published in Penny Sinanoglou’s
Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire
University of Chicago Press: 2019

“San Francisco and the Mission District”
Published in Matthew L. Schuerman’s
Newcomers: Gentrification and its Discontents 
University of Chicago Press: 2019

“The spatial dimension of the welfare state: new towns designated in the United Kingdom, 1946–1970”
Published in Guy Ortolano’s
Thatcher’s Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism Through an English New Town
Cambridge University Press: 2019

“Orcadian Neolithic Domestic Sites”
Published in David MacInnes’s
“Social organization in the Orcadian Neolithic ...” 
Scottish Archaeological Journal, March 2018

“The ‘Inner Belt’ through Cambridge and Boston, showing roads not built”
Published in Karilyn Crockett’s
People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making
University of Massachusetts Press: 2018

“American Cookery: Original editions, advertisements, 
later printings, and plagiarisms, 1796–1831”
Published in Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald’s
United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook
University of Massachusetts Press: 2017

“Harvard Class of 1769: Places of Residence at Matriculation”
Published in Conrad Edick Wright’s
Pedagogues and Protesters: The Harvard College Student Diary of Stephen Peabody, 1767–1768
University of Massachusetts Press: 2017

“Map of Morocco”
Published in Jessica M. Marglin’s
Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Yale University Press: 2016

“Growth of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, c. 1830–1860”
Published in Matthew Karp’s
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Harvard University Press: 2016

“The Lake Ontario region showing locations mentioned in the text”
Published in Karim M. Tiro’s
“A Sorry Tale: Natives, Settlers, and the Salmon of Lake Ontario, 1780–1900”
The Historical Journal, June 2016

“Citizenship certificates issued by collectors of customs, 1796–1802”
Published in Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s
Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution
Harvard University Press: 2015

“Europe, circa 1789”
Published in Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s
Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution
Harvard University Press: 2015

“League of Nations: Mandated African Territories, 1922”
Published in Susan Pedersen’s
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
Oxford University Press: 2015

“League of Nations: Mandated Pacific Territories, 1932”
Published in Susan Pedersen’s
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
Oxford University Press: 2015

“Exploration and Control in Mandated New Guinea in the early 1930s”
Published in Susan Pedersen’s
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
Oxford University Press: 2015

“Don Carlos’s Santa Fe, 1706”
Published in Gerald M. McFarland’s
The Last of Our Kind: Third in the Buenaventura Series
Sunstone Press: 2015

“North and South Vietnam, circa 1967”
Produced for Nick Mills and published in
The American Experience in Vietnam: Reflections of an Era
Zenith Press: 2014

“Battlefields of the Civil War”
Produced for David Shapira and published in
The Medal of Honor: A History of Service Above and Beyond
Zenith Press: 2014

“Johari Bazar and environs”
Published in Lawrence A. Babb’s
Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone Industry
State University of New York (SUNY) Press: 2013

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