Global Dialogues

Anne-Sophie Pratte is assistant professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar. She specializes in the early modern history of China and inner Asia, with a focus on historical cartography, China-Mongolia relations, and environmental history. Pratte explores the role of Mongol maps in the making of Qing imperial geography in her forthcoming book project, Where the State Meets the Steppe: The Politics of Cartography in Qing Mongolia, 1780-1911. She has published her research in the journal Late Imperial China and in Études Mongoles et Sibériennes. Pratte previously was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. In partnership with the Maclean Collection, she directed the production of an interactive Manchu historical map for Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center. Pratte received her Ph.D. in inner Asian and Altaic studies from Harvard University.