Dr. Libby Bischof is Executive Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and Professor of History and University Historian at the University of Southern Maine. A visual and cultural historian of the 19th and 20th centuries, Bischof is interested in the ways in which friendship informs cultural production, especially in relation to landscape and place. A public historian, Bischof believes deeply in site-based, hands-on education, and the ways in which teaching local and regional history can lead to deeper civic engagement. She frequently lectures to public audiences throughout New England, and serves on the board of the New England Historical Association and as President of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.

Dr. Matthew Edney is Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, Osher Map Library Faculty Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of Southern Maine, and director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He edited, with Mary Pedley, Cartography in the European Enlightenment (2019), volume four of The History of Cartography. He is broadly interested in early modern and modern mapping practices, especially in imperial contexts (Mapping an Empire [1997]), and in the conceptual foundations of mapping and map history. His most recent book is Cartography: The Ideal and Its History (Chicago, 2019). He blogs at mappingasprocess.net.