Chet Van Duzer (born 1966) is an American historian of cartography.
Life
He was born in 1966, and grew up in Northern California.
He graduated from UC Berkeley.
He is a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester.
Career
From 2011 to 2012, he was a scholar-in-residence at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
He has also received a Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.
Bibliography
His notable books include:
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550
Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515 : Transcription and Study Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography, With an Edition and Translation of G. C. Munz’s ‘Exercitatio academica de insulis natantibus’ (1711) Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 & 1516 World Maps Christopher Columbus: Book of Privileges: 1502 The Claiming of a New World