Michael Heffernan

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  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
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• mike.heffernan@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

PhD at St John's College Cambridge in early 1980s

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Historical Geography, Loughborough University in the late 1980s and 1990s

Professor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham since 1999

Head of School of Geography, University of Nottingham 2002-6

Visiting Professor at UCLA (1999)

Alexander vin Humboldt Research Fellow at University of Heidelberg (2000)

Expertise Summary

Historical Geography

Histories of Geography

Histories of Cartography

Internationalism

Research Summary

I am keen to supervise PhD and MA students on the following topics:

* histories of geography and cartography from the Renaissance to present

* historical and political geographies of twentieth-century warfare

* twentieth-century internationalism

Selected Publications

• HEFFERNAN, MIKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J., 2018. 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display Journal of Historical Geography. 60, 24-40
• M HEFFERNAN, 2015. The interrogation of Sandor Rado: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War Journal of Historical Geography. 47, 74-88

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• HEFFERNAN, MIKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J., 2018. 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display Journal of Historical Geography. 60, 24-40
• MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, ed., 2018. Geographies of the University Springer.
• MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, LAURA SUARSANA and PETER MEUSBURGER, 2018. Geographies of the University: An Introduction. In: MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, PETER MEUSBURGER and LAURA SUARSANA, eds., Geographies of the University Springer. 1-20
• MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and HEIKE JONS, 2018. "A small town of character": locating a new Scottish university, 1963-1965. In: PETER MEUSBURGER, MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and LAURA SUARSANA, eds., Geographies of the University Springer. 219-250
• PETER MEUSBURGER, HEIKE JONS and MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, eds., 2017. Mobilities of Knowledge Springer.
• HEIKE JONS, MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and PETER MEUSBURGER, 2017. Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction. In: PETER MEUSBURGER, HEIKE JONS and MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, eds., Mobilities of Knowledge Springer. 1-19
• MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and ADAM SWAIN, 2017. Interventions in the political geography of 'area': Geography and European Studies Political Geography. 57, 94-104
• MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, 2016. Maps and Peace. In: TOM HARPER, ed., Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line British Library Publishing. 67-93
• PEARSON, A. and HEFFERNAN M., 2015. Globalizing Cartography?: The International Map of the World, the International Geographical Union, and the United Nations Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. 67(1), 58-80
• JONS H., MAVROUDI E. and HEFFERNAN M., 2015. Mobilising the Elective Diaspora: US-German Academic Exchanges since 1945 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 40(1), 113-127
• JAKE HODDER, STEPHEN LEGG and MIKE HEFFERNAN, 2015. Introduction: Historical Geographies of Internationalism, 1900-1950 Political Geography. 49, 1-6
• M HEFFERNAN, 2015. The interrogation of Sandor Rado: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War Journal of Historical Geography. 47, 74-88
• M HEFFERNAN and A PEARSON, 2015. Revealing the 'lost world': the American Geographical Society and the Mapping of Roraima during the 1930s Journal of Latin American Geography. 14(3), 175-200
• HEFFERNAN M., 2014. Introduction: People, Places and Ideas in the History of Cartography Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. 66(Supplement 1), 2-4
• HEFFERNAN M., 2014. A Paper City: On History, Maps, and Map Collections in 18th and 19th Century Paris Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. 66(Supplement 1), 5-20
• HEFFERNAN M. and DELANO-SMITH C., 2014. A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. 66(Supplement 1), 44-69
• HEFFERNAN M. and GYORI R., 2014. Sandor Rado (1899-1981). In: CHARLES WITHERS and HAYDEN LORIMER, eds., Geographers: Bio-Bibliographical Studies 33. Bloomsbury Academic. 167-202
• HEFFERNAN, M. and JONS, H., 2013. Research travel and disciplinary identities in the University of Cambridge, 1885-1955 British Journal for the History of Science. 46(2), 255-286
• O'HARA, S. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2013. From geo-strategy to geo-economics: the 'heartland' and British imperialism before and after Mackinder. In: MEGORAN, N. and SHARAPOVA, S., eds., Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder Columbia University Press, New York.
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2013. Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early eighteenth-century France Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. n/a(n/a), n/a
• MEUSBURGER, P, HEFFERNAN, M and WUNDER, E, eds., 2011. Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View Dordrecht ; Springer.
• MEUSBURGER, P., HEFFERNAN, M. and WUNDER, E., 2011. Introduction. In: MEUSBURGER, P., HEFFERNAN, M. and WUNDER, E., eds., Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View Springer. 3--14
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2011. History/archive/memory: a historical geography of the US naval memorial in Brest, France. In: MEUSBURGER, P., HEFFERNAN, M. and WUNDER, E., eds., Cultural memories: the geographical point of view Springer.
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2011. Shifting sands: the trans-Saharan railway. In: BRUNN, S., ed., Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects Springer. 617-626
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2011. Learned societies. In: AGNEW, J. A. and LIVINGSTONE, D. N., eds., The Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge Sage. 111-125
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2011. La mise en ordre du sud: la carte de l'Amerique du Sud et la Societe de Geographie americaine. In: BLAIS, H., DEPREST, F. and SINGARAVELOU, P., eds., Territoires Imperiaux: Une Histoire Spatiale du Fait Colonial Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris. 141-167
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2011. Courtly geography: nature, authority and civility in early eighteenth-century France. In: DANIELS, S., DELYSER, D., ENTRIKIN, J. N. and RICHARDSON, D., eds., Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities Routledge, London. 94-105
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2010. Denis Edmund Cosgrove (1948-2008) Geographers: Bio-Bibliographical Studies. 29, 127-150
• PEARSON, A.W. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2009. The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America: million-scale mapping between the wars Imago Mundi. 6(2), 215-243
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2009. The cartography of the Fourth Estate: mapping the new imperialism in British and French newspapers c. 1875-1925. In: AKERMAN, J., ed., The imperial map: cartography and the mastery of empire University of Chicago Press. 261-299
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2008. Historical geography Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Available at: <www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory>
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2007. The European geographical imagination Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
• HEFFERNAN, M. and JONS, H., 2007. Degrees of influence: the politics of honorary degrees in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1900-2000 Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy. 45(4), 389-416
• O'HARA, S. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2006. From geo-strategy to geo-economics: the 'heartland' and British imperialism before and after MacKinder Geopolitics. 11(1), 54-73
• PEARSON, A., TAYLOR, D. R., KLINE, K. D. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2006. Cartographic ideals and geopolitical realities: international maps of the world from the 1890s to the present Canadian Geographer. VOL 50(NUMBER 2), 149-176
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2005. Geography, empire and national revolution in Vichy France Political Geography. 24(6), 731-758
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2005. Edme Mentelle's geographies and the French Revolution. In: LIVINGSTONE, D. AND WITHERS, C., ed., Geography and Revolution Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 273-303
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2005. The end of Atlanticism: Habermas, Derrida and the meaning of Europe in the twenty-first century Geopolitics. 10(3), 570-574
• O'HARA, S and HEFFERNAN, M. AND ENDFIELD, G., 2005. Halford Mackinder, the 'geographical pivot' and British perceptions of Central Asia. In: BLOUET, B., ed., Global Geostrategy: Mackinder and the Defence of the West London: Frank Cass. 90-106
• MEDLICOTT, C. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2004. `Autograph of a nation': The Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Old Trails Road, 1910-1927 National Identities. 6(3), 233-260
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2004. Commercial geography and inter-war French politics: Louis Marin and the Societe de Geographie Commerciale de Paris. In: BAKER, A., ed., Home and Colonial: Essays on Landscape, Ireland, Environment and Empire in Celebration of Robin Butlin's Contribution to Historical Geography London: RGS-IBG/HGRG. 180-197
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2003. Histories of geography. In: HOLLOWAY, S and RICE, S. AND VALENTINE, G., eds., Key Concepts in Geography London: Sage. 3-22
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2002. The politics of the map in the early twentieth century Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 29(3), 207-226
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2002. France and the wider world. In: CROOK, M., ed., Short Oxford History of France: Revolutionary France, 1788-1880 Oxford University Press, Oxford. 178-206
• HEFFERNAN, M. and MEDLICOTT, C., 2002. A feminine Atlas? Sacagewea, the suffragettes and the commemorative landscape in the American west, 1904-1910 Gender, Place and Culture. 9(2), 109-132
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2001. "A dream as frail as those of ancient Time": the in-credible geographies of Timbuctoo Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 19(2), 203-225
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2001. History, Geography and the French National Space: The Question of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-18 Space and Polity. 5(1), 27-48
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2001. The politics of historical geography: French intellectuals and the question of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1919. In: BLACK, I. AND BUTLIN, R., ed., Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R.H. Baker Laval: Presses de l'Université Laval. 207-238
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Grasping the runaway world: historical geography and the internet Journal of Historical Geography. 26(2), 158-160
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Professor Penck's bluff: geography, espionage and hysteria in World War I Scottish Geographical Journal. 116(4), 267-282 (In Press.)
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Fin de siecle, fin du monde: on the origins of modern geopolitics. In: DODDS, K. AND ATKINSON, D., ed., Geopolitical Traditions?: Critical Histories of a Century of Geopolitical Thought London: Routledge. 27-51
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Balancing visions: Gerard O Tuathail's critical geopolitics Political Geography. 19(3), 347-352
• HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Mars and Minerva: centres of geographical calculation in an age of total war Erdkunde. 54(4), 320-333
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1999. Historical geographies of the future: three perspectives from France, 1750-1825. In: LIVINGSTONE, D. AND WITHERS, C., ed., Geography and Enlightenment Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 125-164
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1999. Inaugurating the American century: 'New World' perspectives on the 'Old' in the early twentieth century. In: SLATER, D. AND TAYLOR, P., ed., The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power Oxford: Blackwell. 113-135
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. War and the shaping of Europe. In: GRAHAM, B., ed., Modern Europe: Place, Culture, Identity London: Arnold. 89-120
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. The chaning political map: geography, geopolitics and the idea of Europe since c. 1500. In: BUTLIN, R. AND DODGSHON, R., ed., An Historical Geography of Europe Oxford: Oxford University Press. 176-202
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics Edward Arnold, London.
• HEFFERNAN, M.J., 1998. Editorial: continuity and change Journal of Historical Geography. 24, 1
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. Geographical societies. In: GOOD, G., ed., Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena New York: Garland. 273-277
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. Geography and imperialism. In: GOOD, G., ed., Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena New York: Garland. 287-191
• HEFFERNAN, M.J., 1997. Editorial: the future of historical geography Journal of Historical Geography. 23, 1-2
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1997. The French right and overseas empire, 1870-1920. In: ATKIN, N. AND TALLET, F., ed., The Right in France 1789-1997 London: I. B. Tauris. 89-113
• HEFFERNAN, M., 1996. Geography, cartography and military intelligence: the Royal Geographical Society and the First World War Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. VOL 21(NUMBER 3), 504-533