PMOCA - Credits
The Portuguese Mapping of the African Coast website and database are a joint collaboration between the University of California Humanities Research Institute, GIS Data Center at Rice University, and the Texas Learning & Computation Center, University of Houston. The website and database are made possible by the generous funding of the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities. Translation of fifteenth-century manuscripts thanks to the International Center for Writing and Translation.
NEH Humanities Magazine showcase "The Cone of Africa...Took Shape in Lisbon" in the December 2008 issues.
Early Portuguese cartographers traced the coast of the continent with astounding accuracy.
By Patricia Seed
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Patricia Seed
Content Director
In ordinary life she is Professor of History. Her many books include Atlantic History prize winning American Pentimento: The
Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches (Minnesota 2001) , Ceremonies
of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World (Cambridge
1995), and the multi-prize-winning To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico (Stanford 1988). She is currently writing a history of modern science,
focusing on its origins in the innovations in cartography and navigation. Also Latitude: The Website
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German Diaz
Second Content Director
GIS technical support specialist at Rice University (Houston, Texas). He never uses a pencil.
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Josten Ma
Technical Director
At Texas Learning and Computation Center, Josten heads the Database
Technology and Application Solutions Group which provides researchers
with “leading edge” database engineering and architecture as well as application
implementation, lab testing, and technical support.
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Aamir Aftab
Site Administrator
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Clint Keithley
Graphic Designer
A graduate in architecture from Rice University, Clint's Master’s thesis
called The Guerrilla Collective at the Museum proposes a new
convergence of projection technology, car culture, and provisional
communities in a museum parking garage. Clint currently works for
a prominent New York architectural firm.
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