Matthew H. Edney is a British geographer who is both the Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, at the University of Southern Maine;[1] and the Project Director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[1] After teaching at SUNY–Binghamton (aka Binghamton University) in 1990–95, Edney moved to the University of Southern Maine as faculty scholar in the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.
In this capacity, Edney implemented Woodward's strategy of pursuing the last three volumes of the series concurrently and as interpretive encyclopedias.
His dissertation was published as Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843 (Chicago, 1997).
He has an abiding interest in developing conceptual frameworks for mapping and map history, which has matured into a large project; the first part of this is in press and will appear in early 2019 as Cartography: The Ideal and Its History (Chicago).