I specialize in drawing maps for academic monographs and papers. My background in academia means that I understand academic research and writing, and means that I know what questions to ask to make sure that your maps will accentuate your project. My goal is to make sure that the maps I draw will help you to explain your work to the broadest possible audiences.
Here are just some of the books and articles with Surprised Eels maps helping them tell their stories.
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Liberterian Exit, Ray Craib, PM Press, 2022 (link)
Aegean Roleplaying Game. Stoo Goff. (link)
After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World, Marc Herman, Penn University Press, 2025, tba
Automotive Empires: How Cars and Roads Made European Colonialism in Africa, Andrew Denning, Cornell University Press 2025 (link)
Belisarius and Antonina: Love and War in the Ear of Justinian, David Parnell, Oxford University Press, 2024 (link)
A Break in the Future, Fuad Musallam, Penn University Press, tba
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, Matt Gabriele and David Perry, Harper, 2021 (link)
Christian Nationalism, Nation Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia, Hana Kumbátová, Oxford University Press, tba
Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World, Jorge Flores, Penn University Press, 2024 (link)
Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border, Ieva Jusionyte, University of California Press, 2024 (link)
Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Band, Mary Flannery, Reaktion, 2024 (link)
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid, Meredith McKittrick, University of Chicago Press, 2024 (link)
Hospitals in Commuties in the Late Medieval Rhineland, Lucy Barnhouse, Amsterdam University Press, 2023 (link)
In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Ann Zimo, Penn University Press, 2024 (link)
Introduction to the Carolingian Age, Cullen Chandler, Rutledge, 2024 (link)
Latin American History at the Movies, Donald Stevenson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 (link)
León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, Simon Doubleday, Penn, 2024 (link)
Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100, Ellen Arnold, Cambridge University Press 2024 (link)
Miseries and Misfortunes (Book 5): An Homage to Catalonia, Luke Crane, Burning Wheel RPGs, 2022 (link)
Modern France and the World, Darcie Fontaine, Rutledge, 2023 (link)
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe, Matt Gabriele and David Perry, Harper-Collins, 2024 (link)
Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland’s Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350, Joel Anderson, Penn University Press, 2023 (link)
Sailing Without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels, Steve Mentz, Fordham University Press, 2024 (link)
Sleight of Hand: An Alewives of Colmar Mystery, Elizabeth R. Andersen, Haeddre Press, 2024 (link)
State of Disaster: The Failure of US Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change, Maria Christina Garcia, UNC Press, 2022 (link)
“Stealing Fire From Heaven: Odette du Puigaudeau and French Nuclear Colonialism in the African Sahara”, Christopher Hill, International Review of Environmental History, vol 9 no. 2, 2023 (link)
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, Melanie Newport, Penn University Press, 2022 (link)
Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Columbia, Jesse Jonkman, Penn University Press, 2024 (link)
Why Renaissance? Invention of a Golden Age, Ada Palmer, Head of Zeus, 2025, tba
World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook, John Rankin and Constanze Weise, East Tennessee State University, 2022 (link)
