Patricia Seed

{{short description|American historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Patricia Seed | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Historian, professor |alma_mater = University of Wisconsin-Madison<ref name=profile/> | spouse = George Marcus<ref name=george>{{cite web|title=Department of Anthropology: George Marcus|url=http://www.anthropology.uci.edu/anthr_bios/gmarcus|publisher=UC Irvine School of Social Sciences|accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref> | children = Rachel, Avery }}

'''Patricia Seed''' is an American historian and professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of History. She specializes in the history of cartography and navigation, and is the foremost authority on latitude as it relates to the historical use of maps in maritime exploration.<ref name=profile>{{cite web|title=Faculty Profile: Patricia Seed|url=http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty_profile_seed.php|publisher=UC Irvine Department of History|accessdate=25 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140425070155/http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty_profile_seed.php|archivedate=25 April 2014}}</ref>

==Education and life== Professor Seed received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<ref>[http://www.publichistory.org/about_phrc/emeritus.asp Editors Emeritus of the Public History Resource Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821033353/http://publichistory.org/About_phrc/emeritus.asp |date=2008-08-21 }}</ref> After spending two decades as a history professor at Rice University, she moved to the faculty of the University of California, Irvine, in 2005. She lives with her husband, anthropologist George Marcus, with whom she has two children, Rachel and Avery.

==Research== Her specialities include history of the early modern and colonial European eras, especially in relation to Spanish and Portuguese-speaking cultures.<ref name=profile/><ref>[http://www.maphistory.info/courses.html College and university-level courses in the history of cartography]. Accessed 2012.01.13.</ref>

Specifically, her fields of interest include history of cartography, comparative history of cartographic design and navigation, large-scale coastal mapping (e.g., Africa, 15th century), Mercator projection, historical applications of GIS to portolan charts, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission GIS data, effect of rising sea levels on West Africa, and Jewish and Islamic influences on the political construction of Latin America.<ref name=profile/>

===Books=== She published ''To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574–1821'' in 1992,<ref name=love>{{cite book|title=To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574–1821|date=1992|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, Calif.|isbn=978-0804721592|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Req0mi3GVUC}}</ref> and ''Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640'' in 1995,<ref name=cerem>{{cite book|last=Seed|first=Patricia|title=Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640|date=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0521497572|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bw9xPM3o_GwC}}</ref>

In 2001 she published ''American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches'',<ref name=pentimento>{{cite book|last=Seed|first=Patricia|title=American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches|date=2001|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis, MN|isbn=978-0816637669|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFYIdw3kDr0C}}</ref> and a year later she was awarded the American Historical Association's James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History.<ref name=rawley>{{cite web|title=James A. Rawley Prize Recipients|url=http://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/james-a-rawley-prize-recipients|publisher=American Historical Association|accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref>

==See also== * History of cartography

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==External links== * [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/ Prof. Seed's latitude website]

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