Sarah Bendall

Sarah Bendall is the Development Director, Official Fellow, Fellow Librarian and Archivist at Emmanuel College, and Curator of the Douglas Finlay Museum. She has dedicated her career to the study of large-scale local maps and map-makers of Great Britain & Ireland (1550-1850) and the history of Emmanuel College.

• Academic roles include Research Fellow, Official Fellow, and Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.
• Ranges of expertise span cartography, historical geography, archival practices, and local history.

Her research focuses on the intersection of geography, map-making, and institutional history. She organized seminars on cartographic history and serves as treasurer of a trust granting funds in cartography. She has edited significant works, including the Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-Makers.

Scientific awards and fellowships:

• Research Fellowship, Emmanuel College, 1988
• Senior Research Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford, 1994

She has no listed advisees but has contributed extensively to cartographic scholarship through publications and grant-awarding activities.