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Mirela Altic
Mirela Altic is a chief research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences and full professor in the Department of History, University of Zagreb. She specializes in the social history of maps, cross-cultural knowledge exchange and early modern encounters. The author of eighteen books, numerous scholarly papers and a contributor to ‘The History of Cartography Project’, her latest book, Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of the Americas, was published in 2022. Currently, she serves as the vice-chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and as president of the Society for the History of Discoveries.
Contact: Institute of Social Sciences, Marulicev trg 19, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.