Karen C. Pinto

Karen C. Pinto has researched medieval Islamic maps in collections around the world for three decades. She is author of Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (University of Chicago Press, 2016), which in 2017 received an Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) award from Choice magazine. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, was a 2013–14 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a 2016 recipient of the Franklin Grant. Her own image collection of more than 3,000 Islamic maps contains many previously unpublished.