Radical Cartography: Visual Argument in the Age of Data

Bill Rankin is an Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Yale University. His research focuses on the relationship between science and space, from the territorial scale of states and globalization down to the scale of individual buildings. He is particularly interested in mapping, the environmental sciences and technology, architecture and urbanism, and methodological problems of digital scholarship, spatial history, and geographic analysis (including GIS). In addition to his historical work, Bill is also an award-winning cartographer, and his maps have been published and exhibited widely in the US, Europe, and Asia. Most of this work is available on his website, www.radicalcartography.net, maintained since 2003.