Contact information
Canadian-American Center
154 College Ave, Orono, ME 04473
hornsby@maine.edu
207.581.4226
Education
- Ph.D. University of British Columbia 1986
- M.A. Honours, University of St. Andrews 1979
Courses
Spring 2023
- GEO 275/HTY 275: Geography of Globalization
- GEO 410: Seminar in North American Historical Geography
Fall 2023
- CAN 101: Intro to Canadian Studies
- GEO 212/HTY 212: Geography of Maine
Research Areas
- Historical Geography
- Expansion of Europe overseas
- Eastern Canada and northeastern United States
- American cartography in the 20th century
Current Research and Writing
Book Manuscripts
- Cod Coasts: Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery from Cape Cod to Labrador (Orono, ME: University of Maine Press, in press)
- Cotton’s Ocean: Yankee Shipowners and the Antebellum Atlantic World
- Twentieth Century American Popular Cartography
Awards and Honors
- John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers, for Picturing America, 2018
- University of Maine System Trustee Professor, 2016
- Best “Book/Atlas” and “Best of Show,” Cartography and Geographic Information Society, for Historical Atlas of Maine, 2016
- Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, for Historical Atlas of Maine, 2016
- Globe Award, American Association of Geographers, for Historical Atlas of Maine, 2016
- Pierre Savard Award, International Council for Canadian Studies, for Surveyors of Empire, 2013
- John Lyman Book Award in the category Naval and Maritime Science and Technology, North American Society for Oceanic History, for Surveyors of Empire, 2012
- Publication of the Year Award, Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation, for Surveyors of Empire, 2012
- Caird Short-term Research Fellowship, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2007
- Cleo Award (Atlantic Canada), Canadian Historical Association, for Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton, 1993
- Commonwealth Scholarship, 1979-1984
Publications
New Book
Atlas

History of Cartography


Historical Geography



Edited Books


Recent Articles and Chapters
- (with Margaret Pearce), “Making the Coming Home Map,” Cartographica 55, 3 (2020): 170-176
- (with Graeme Wynn), “Eldorado North?” in The Nature of Canada, edited by Colin M. Coates and Graeme Wynn, 101-121. (Vancouver, BC: On Point Press, a UBC Press imprint, 2019).