French and Spanish Missions in North America
John Corrigan and Tracy Leavelle, with Arthur Remillard

Foreword

This publication began as a spin-off of a project focused on religious affiliation indicated in United States census data. That project, which was the result of collaboration between The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Polis Center at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, has produced its own impressive results. As French and Spanish Missions in North America got underway, Lew Lancaster at ECAI and David Bodenhamer at The Polis Center provided orientation, funding, and vision. The technical expertise of Jeanette Zerneke, Kim Carl, and Ruth Mostern, in Berkeley, and Karen E. Frederickson and Kevin Mickey, in Indianapolis, was crucial to the project. Caverlee Cary, also in Berkeley, likewise played a key role in moving the project forward by enabling us to make periodic presentations of the work-in-progress to academic audiences, in various locations, including some of the following: the City University of Hong Kong, the British Library, Osaka City University, the University of Szeged, the Netherlands Institute in Rome, at academic society conferences, and at a number of meetings of geographers and cultural historians in Berkeley. A committee of American religious historians that included Peter Williams, Bret Carroll, Joel Martin, and the late Catherine Cookson met with the authors and technical staff in Berkeley at an early stage of the project, with good results. Trevor Harris, Director of the National Geospatial Development Center was exceedingly generous with his advice, and Ian Johnson and Andrew Wilson at the University of Sydney likewise made excellent suggestions regarding mapping. Briane Turley was a constant and indispensable consultant on every phase of the project. A string of first-rate graduate assistants made important contributions, and especially Michael Gueno at Florida State University. Florida State University, Smith College, Arizona State University, and Creighton University supported the authors at various times in their work on this project. To all of these persons and institutions, we are grateful.

John Corrigan
Tracy Leavelle

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

Copyright © John Corrigan, Tracy Leavelle
December 2004

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