Current research projects include: Geography, citizenship and national identity in Europe and North America, 1870-1945; Landscape, war and memory, 1914-1940.

Teaching
Cultural & Historical Geography
European Urban Geographies (Paris field trip) (Year 3)
Geographies of Violence (Year 3)
History and Philosophy of Geography (Year 3)
Philosophy of Social Sciences
Approaches to Landscape

Heffernan, M. and Pearson, A. (2009) The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America: million scale mapping between the wars, Imago Mundi 61, 2.

Heffernan, M. (2009) The cartography of the fourth estate: mapping the new imperialism in British and French newspapers, 1875-1925, in James Akerman (ed.) The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 261-299 & 341-351.

Heffernan, M. (2007) The European Geographical Imagination (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner).

Heffernan, M., Pearson, A., D. R. Fraser Taylor and K. Kline (2006) Cartographic ideals and geopolitical realities: international maps of the world from the 1890s to the present, Canadian Geographer 50, 2, pp. 149-176.

Heffernan, M. (2005) Edme Mentelle's geographies and the French Revolution, in David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers (eds) Geography and Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 273-303.

Heffernan, M. (2005) Geography, empire and National Revolution in Vichy France, Political Geography, 24, 6, pp. 731-758.