Ben Huseman served for eighteen years as the cartographic archivist at the University of Texas at Arlington Library, where he curated exhibitions for the Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography and taught courses on the history of the Borderlands using original maps, prints, and rare books from UTA’s Special Collections. Before joining UTA, he worked as a curator at the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, as a consultant in the antique map and print trade, and as Assistant Curator for Research and Research Assistant at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.
Huseman has authored numerous exhibition guides and books on subjects ranging from early maps of Texas, Africa, and the Caribbean to cartography and religion, daguerreotypes and prints from the U.S.–Mexico War, and imagery produced by U.S. government expeditions in the trans-Mississippi American West.
